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I have open video downloader, which worked before. But now it doesn't. I tried to install pip by putting ensure pip in Python 3.11 but I don't know how to change the greater than signs. Or if you have to. I did hours of research into this. All into youtube-dl and pip. But I never learned how to update it. Do I even have to? I'd love some help.

Raphael Rodgers
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    Suggest you switch to https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp – Organic Marble May 12 '23 at 00:18
  • youtube isnt a fan of youtube-dl and will be forever trying to break it. the latest incarnation of that is by putting regex in the url, which breaks youtube-dl parser. maybe someone has made a fix for that. – j0h May 12 '23 at 16:06
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    Try Parabolic (previously known as Tube Converter), a nice GUI based on yt-dlp. GitHub: https://github.com/NickvisionApps/Parabolic, Flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/org.nickvision.tubeconverter, Snap: sudo snap install tube-converter – Archisman Panigrahi Jun 29 '23 at 00:51
  • Does this answer your question? How can I update youtube-dl? – karel Jul 10 '23 at 00:53
  • Parabolic worked for me when others like youtube-dl, command line or python3 method failed. strange since Parabolic? works based on it. – pierrely Sep 30 '23 at 22:42
  • I spoke too soon, parabolic also failed, but only after pretending to download it to 100%. – pierrely Oct 01 '23 at 01:17

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According to youtube-dl official documentation, you could try

youtube-dl -U

or

youtube-dl --update

or even

sudo -H pip install --upgrade youtube-dl
Dario Costa
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  • I had to do the pip install (3rd option) to get it to work - the first and the second options did not return any errors but youtube downloads kept failing. – gdesilva May 17 '23 at 02:02
  • I have no idea why. Anyway, if you find my answer helpful, please be kind and upvote, thanks! :) – Dario Costa May 18 '23 at 10:00
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latest version 2021.12.17 no updates after

NOT working anymore (at some point, to make you pay for it, utube enforced no download policy to make you pay for premium)

sorry ...

THESorcerer
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