• Skullgrid@lemmy.world
      5·
      10 hours ago
      yt-dlp --version
2025.04.30

      Son of a fucking bitch. DEBIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

      EDIT : IDK still works for me.

      
$ yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch/?v%5C=FFe58KX4MHA
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFe58KX4MHA
[youtube] FFe58KX4MHA: Downloading webpage
[youtube] FFe58KX4MHA: Downloading tv client config
[youtube] FFe58KX4MHA: Downloading player b2515611-main
[youtube] FFe58KX4MHA: Downloading tv player API JSON
[youtube] FFe58KX4MHA: Downloading ios player API JSON
WARNING: [youtube] FFe58KX4MHA: Signature extraction failed: Some formats may be missing
WARNING: [youtube] FFe58KX4MHA: Some web client https formats have been skipped as they are missing a url. YouTube is forcing SABR streaming for this client. See  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12482  for more details
[youtube] FFe58KX4MHA: Downloading m3u8 information
[info] FFe58KX4MHA: Downloading 1 format(s): 614+234
[hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest
[hlsnative] Total fragments: 86
[download] Destination: Malcolm X ｜ ＂By Any Means Necessary＂ Speech (1964) [FFe58KX4MHA].f614.mp4
[download] 100% of   22.74MiB in 00:00:16 at 1.41MiB/s
[hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest
[hlsnative] Total fragments: 86
[download] Destination: Malcolm X ｜ ＂By Any Means Necessary＂ Speech (1964) [FFe58KX4MHA].f234.mp4
[download] 100% of    7.14MiB in 00:00:08 at 902.54KiB/s
[Merger] Merging formats into "Malcolm X ｜ ＂By Any Means Necessary＂ Speech (1964) [FFe58KX4MHA].mp4"
Deleting original file Malcolm X ｜ ＂By Any Means Necessary＂ Speech (1964) [FFe58KX4MHA].f234.mp4 (pass -k to keep)
Deleting original file Malcolm X ｜ ＂By Any Means Necessary＂ Speech (1964) [FFe58KX4MHA].f614.mp4 (pass -k to keep)
$

      EDIT : for those keeping score, IDK what to do at this point. If you like helping, give a hand.

      $ yt-dlp -U
Current version: stable@2025.04.30 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Latest version: stable@2025.11.12 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp
ERROR: As yt-dlp has been installed via apt, you should use that to update.  If you're on a stable release, also check backports.

      I already did sudo apt update, not sure how to “backport”

      • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world
        3·
        10 hours ago

        You would have to add the relevant backport repo to your apt sources. Your favorite search engine should help you figure out exactly how to do that on your system.

        When I ran into this though, I uninstalled the apt version and downloaded the latest version directly from GitHub and installed it manually.

      • airman@infosec.pubEnglish
        4·
        18 hours ago

        I don’t know if you’ve fixed this but getting a burner account and extracting the cookies works. Just pass the cookie file to ytdlp and you’re good to go

        • ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
          1·
          9 hours ago

          well the ‘funny’ part of the meme is (supposed to be) the content of the link, which is the background… (including the frame it’s paused on). making the error requesting log in suspicious .
          also there was no issue with any other video
          ….
          but really i just wanted to sample the audio for a thing, so im gonna look for a higher quality version

    • 18107@aussie.zoneEnglish
      8·
      1 day ago

      My package manager has an old version that doesn’t work. I had to download from a browser to get a working version.

      • palordrolap@fedia.io
        5·
        15 hours ago

        YouTube change things on the back end so frequently that I bet there’s always at least one bleeding-edge distro that has an outdated yt-dlp in its repository.

        But if you’re on a Debian / Ubuntu / Mint, yeah, you’re gonna have a bad time without the stand-alone version.

  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    17·
    1 day ago

    Either wait a while or access it from a different IP address. If you have both IPv4 and IPv6, try forcing it to use one or the other with the -4 and -6 options.

    • Lucy :3@feddit.org
      4·
      18 hours ago

      Funnily, my home IP gets blocked often, even with lower than human-average traffic. My fathers home IP, where my piped proxy runs, so where all my PC/Laptop YT usage aggregates, plus his usage and others using my proxy, literally never gets blocked. Maybe because he watches it logged in, and so YT trusts the IPs more?