How to fix [youtube-dl] ERROR: [yZnX4sRYLLU]: YouTube said: This video is unavailable
Youtube-dl no longer downloads the video
| user@academix2.4:~$ youtube-dl URl
# We get the error (aproximative) ERROR: yZnX4sRYLLU: YouTube said: This video is unavailable. |
A Google search for YT clarified me, YT has released a new version 2020.01.24 while Debian repository is at 2019.01.17.
In a previous article <https://academixproject.com/en/?s=token> I presented about problems with downloading videos from You Tube from the terminal with the youtube-dl command. Remember that when you make updates, youtube-dl stays in place because of Debian policy.
| ┌─[root@academix2.4]─[~]
└──╼ #youtube-dl -U … youtube-dl: error: youtube-dl’s self-update mechanism is disabled on Debian. |
Note that distribution packages are often outdated. Typically, youtube-dl launches a new version at least once a month, and often weekly or even daily. Just to find out the current version go to <https://yt-dl.org> .
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Don’t forget to first uninstall the version you have then, for more information read README.md
<https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#how-do-i-update-youtube-dl>and follow the steps shown there.
