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Trying to download an audio from youtube.

youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILSr9BbhoJQ
[youtube] ILSr9BbhoJQ: Downloading webpage
[youtube] ILSr9BbhoJQ: Downloading video info webpage
ERROR: ILSr9BbhoJQ: "token" parameter not in video info for unknown reason; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

Then I did this.

sudo apt-get remove youtube-dl
sudo mkdir -pv /usr/local/bin
sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

andy@7_~/Downloads$ youtube-dl -U
bash: /usr/bin/youtube-dl: No such file or directory

youtube-dl is in /usr/bin directory.

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    Does this answer your question? How can I update youtube-dl? link – karel Jun 09 '20 at 22:49
  • FYI: I'd recommend removing the apt installed version if you are getting the pip install version. Problems may not appear at once, but may bite you later... You didn't provide your release, I've usually filed a bug & within a few days (usually next day) the newer version is packaged and available for apt testing (on later releases esp.) – guiverc Jun 09 '20 at 23:20
  • @karel That link is for a different error message. My errors do not have the word "pip" in them. – fixit7 Jun 10 '20 at 02:22
  • Unfortunately this answer (the linked one) is the only one that works, so I suggest that you try it anyway. You don't have to worry about pip anymore, because this answer does not have the word pip in it. – karel Jun 10 '20 at 02:33
  • Have you tried this? sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/bin/youtube-dl sudo chmod a+rx /usr/bin/youtube-dl If you have the youtube-dl in the right folder you could try run the 2nd command. – Munsko Jun 10 '20 at 02:37
  • That's not a native solution in Ubuntu and it uses sudo which is a high risk combination. Ubuntu Software has a package in it which can solve this problem. – karel Jun 10 '20 at 02:39
  • They suggest do that way in the developers page: http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html. The problem with this particular package is that need be updated very frequently. – Munsko Jun 10 '20 at 02:42
  • Ubuntu snap packages are updated frequently and aggressively compared to apt packages from the Ubuntu repositories. In particular the youtube-dl snap package is updated frequently and aggressively. The last time it was updated was 50 days ago. – karel Jun 10 '20 at 02:45
  • The snap edge version used to be excellent, updated frequently. Now it seems the maintainer has run out of gas, can't recommend. What does which youtube-dl report? Note that if you're on 20.04 if you use the wget method it downloads a python2 version so you need to have the python-is-python2 package installed for it to work... – doug Jun 10 '20 at 03:28
  • I see so many responses. I get the impression that downloading a youtube video is a hit or miss thing with youtube-dl. – fixit7 Jun 10 '20 at 04:49

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This came from a Mozilla support group.

Clip Grab

Download it from here.

https://clipgrab.org/faqs/howto-download-youtube-video

Just double click it to run the program.

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