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youtube-dl no longer works on namesake website

See original GitHub issue

No surprise here, but using this (and youtube-dl in general) no longer works on youtube. Probably a recent change.

Error looks like: ERROR: Unable to extract JS player URL.

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  • State:closed
  • Created 3 years ago
  • Comments:11 (4 by maintainers)

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Sushiman42commented, Nov 16, 2020

Just a quick update, youtube-dl is back up on github.

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8bitgentlemancommented, Nov 2, 2020

@Tzahi12345 Sure, here’s the log output

2020-11-02T23:49:58.825Z VERBOSE: youtube-dl args being used: -o,users/admin/video/%(title)s.mp4,--write-info-json,--print-json,-f,bestvideo+bestaudio,--merge-output-format,mp4,--write-thumbnail
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