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Ask HN: Yt-dlp no longer downloads videos from YouTube

• pwg 1y ago
  Update to latest version. Search for the response error you get -- often the yt-dlp forums will show the latest workaround.
  • lavren1974 1y ago
    Last yt-dlp 2025.10.14, yesterday it was normal, today not!
    • lavren1974 1y ago
      I tried the old version, which didn't cause any problems! The result: it doesn't download.
      • pwg 1y ago
        Just retried a download on a YT vid I downloaded last night, it downloaded again. Using version 2025.10.14 on Linux, but with this 'tweak' in ~/.config/yt-dlp/config (which was to fix a prior 'no-download' change): --extractor-args "youtube:player-client=default,-tv_simply"
      • pwg 1y ago
        There is now a 2025.10.22 version out. You may want to give it a try.
        • lavren1974 1y ago
          doesn't work
• akyuu 1y ago
  It's because YouTube is now requiring a full JavaScript runtime in order to download and play videos. There are open issues regarding this in the relevant GitHub projects, but the fix has not yet been released. https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/14404 https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/14404 https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/33186 https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/33186 See also previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45358980 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45358980
• fragmede 1y ago
  IT DOES NOT WORK! Let's leave it at that. Btw, YouTube engineers read HN, so if you have any workarounds and you publish them here, those work arounds are going to stop working! (Yes it does work. Search harder. Don't use Google for that search.)