youtube-dlg update error

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• If your problem is a bug with youtube-dl or a request for new site support please report it here

• Make sure you are using the latest youtube-dl-gui version (Click the Settings icon and then About to view the current version)

• Make sure you are using the latest youtube-dl version (Click the Settings icon and then Update to update to the latest youtube-dl version)

• Make sure you searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

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  • I think my problem is NOT with youtube-dl
  • I’ve verified and i assure that I’m running youtube-dl-gui 0.4
  • I assure that i am using the latest version of youtube-dl
  • Searched bugtracker
  • I’ve read the FAQs file

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• Bug report
• Feature request (request for a new functionality)
• Question
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Bug report

If the problem occurs when downloading a URL please provide the full verbose output as follows:

1. Restart youtube-dl-gui
2. Go to Options > Extra tab
3. Enable Debug youtube-dl
4. Go to Options > Advanced tab and Clear your log content
5. Try to download the URL
6. Copy the whole log content and insert it between the ``` part below

delete me and insert your log content here

What operating system do you use ?

Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit

List of actions to perform to reproduce the problem:

1. Open youtube-dlg
2. Open settings
3. Select “update”

What is the expected behaviour ?

It should say “downloading latest youtube-dl. please wait…”, and then after a few seconds say something like “youtube-dl downloaded successfully.”.

What happens instead ?

It says “downloading latest youtube-dl. please wait…”, but then after a few seconds it says “youtube-dl download failed [http error 403: forbidden]”.

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Feature request (request for a new functionality)

Please make sure that the requested feature is NOT already in the TODO list

• I’ve verified and i assure that my requested feature is NOT in the TODO list

What operating system do you use ?

Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit

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When you go to youtube-dlg’s settings and select “update”, it says “downloading latest youtube-dl. please wait…”, but then after a few seconds it says “youtube-dl download failed [http error 403: forbidden]”. This issue never used to happen before, and it always used to just download the update successfully and say “downloading latest youtube-dl. please wait…”, and then after a few seconds say something like “youtube-dl downloaded successfully.” without any issues. Nothing has changed with the program installation or settings. Is there a way to fix that? Thanks.

[Technetium1]

This https://github.com/MrS0m30n3/youtube-dl-gui/blob/c5c18e55cb7e04fb6d6d8e64024a7dbac1f6b431/youtube_dl_gui/updatemanager.py#L48 needs to be changed to https://youtube-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl

If you’re on windows you can download youtube-dl.exe and place it in %AppData%\youtube-dlg

[Technetium1]

@RedBreloom make sure youtube-dl isn’t in your path somewhere else already, if all else fails remove it all and try again. You should probably make another issue if this persists.