[Discuss] youtube-dl no longer working in Ubuntu

[Peter Willis]

You need to get the new version occasionally.

P

> On May 28, 2019, at 7:35 PM, Murray Strome <wmstrome at shaw.ca> wrote:
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> The Youtube video downloader youtube-dl seems to have quit working.  I get the same error when I try to use it from the bash command in Windows but it still does work using brew on a Mac. Any ideas as to what has happened and/or how to fix it? Nothing I have found using Google has worked.
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> Enn3BHE3v4s: "token" parameter not in video info for unknown reason; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 785, in extract_info
>     ie_result = ie.extract(url)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 440, in extract
>     ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1624, in _real_extract
>     video_id=video_id)
> youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Enn3BHE3v4s: "token" parameter not in video info for unknown reason; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
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