Right now I would download a modest video from walkthroug from a game. so I started with

                alex@Guilmon:~/Videos$ sudo youtube-dl -U ERROR: tin can't find the current version. Please try again afterwards. alex@Guilmon:~/Videos$

after lilliputian bit searching I establish this and this as well

Is there an culling? with my current version I am not able to download it

                alex@Guilmon:~/Videos$ youtube-dl --version 2020.09.fourteen alex@Guilmon:~/Videos$

asked Oct 30, 2020 at 18:45

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  • all of them are going downwards lately , this uses a third political party but works ok. loader.to?

    Oct 31, 2020 at four:10

  • You tin can install the Debian package.

    Nov one, 2020 at 20:12

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The latest version is available on the official website, where you can download the tar.gz file (v2020.09.twenty). On the homepage, there is a message: "Currently our dev repository is taken downwards due to DMCA takedown observe by RIAA. Downloads yet work every bit usual."

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answered Oct 30, 2020 at 21:45

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  • FWIW, the takedown's over the contents of 1 examination; even the RIAA don't (currently) have a case against youtube-dl proper.

    Oct 31, 2020 at 20:07

  • @wizzwizz4 that's not correct. The RIAA are claiming that the primary purpose of youtube-dl is copyright infringement under the anti-circumvention clause of the DMCA (also a ridiculous claim). They include the tests every bit evidence for the merits.

    Nov one, 2020 at 23:58

  • @FredStark Just isn't that non a DMCA takedown?

    November 2, 2020 at 6:47

  • @AsteroidsWithWings There is no "on YouTube". There's a user amanuensis. By your logic, the "video popular-out" features of many extensions (included stock in recent versions of Firefox) are illegal, but that's absurd; if the law actually does piece of work that style, I quit.

    Nov 2, 2020 at 20:52

  • @AsteroidsWithWings there's very little caselaw for the anti-circumvention provisions, so it's not every bit articulate cutting equally saying "It's the police force". There's a stiff argument that youtube-dl'south primary purpose is not copyright circumvention and so only a court can decide how the police should utilize in this case. It looks similar Github'south CEO wants to help youtube-dl fight the RIAA then nosotros might just find out for sure

    Nov 2, 2020 at 22:14

The widely used fork youtube-dlc is even so existence actively maintained.

It's probably a good idea to switch for the fourth dimension beingness because the September release from youtube-dl.org is already bitrotted and doesn't work with YouTube (and perhaps some other sites) any more. The most recent youtube-dlc release (dated today) does work.

It looks like youtube-dlc has removed the tests that were used as a pretext to take down the chief repository. Whether that means they're safety, I couldn't say.

answered Nov 1, 2020 at 0:56

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  • Besides one being actively updated, are at that place any effective differences betwixt the two? There are some GUI's that piggyback on youtube-dl, and I'm wondering if youtube-dlc binaries could be swapped in place without things breaking (like a change in switches or switch formatting).

    Nov i, 2020 at 4:52

  • @Coldblackice I diffed the sources and it looks similar information technology just adds a few features. The letters are a bit unlike (information technology calls itself youtube-dlc for example) which could suspension automated parsing I suppose.

    Nov 1, 2020 at five:33

  • @benrg it test it in my debian.

    November 1, 2020 at nine:35

  • @Coldblackice Bold that such GUIs just use the youtube-dl command line, I would look it to be compatible. Incompatibilites tend to ingather upwards with dissimilar versions of software libraries, where such a affair as binary compatibility might mean that the GUI application would need to be re-compiled against the modified library.

    November ii, 2020 at 15:56

You could try this. This was in the readme of the original repo.

                sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

This updated my version to 2020.09.twenty. Maybe that'll exist enough for you.

answered Nov 1, 2020 at 8:50

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