Someday, when I’m not balls-to-the-wall poor I’ll actually support the artists. Until then, it’s not illegal for personal use, and morally it’s that or just no music.
It’s fixed in the development versions. If you installed yt-dlp using pip, update with the prerelease flag: pip install --upgrade--pre yt-dlp. If you manually installed it, run yt-dlp --update-to nightly or grab the latest dev from their nightly repo.
I just updated to the newest Ubuntu LTS, which puts pip into system managed mode so you can’t easily install packages outside of a virtual environment anymore.
If you (or anyone who stumbles upon this comment in the future) run into this problem, the new recommended way to install yt-dlp through pip and keep it in your path and up to date is via pipx (sudo apt install pipx). The syntax is a bit gnarly for pre-releases, so I figured I’d post an update:
To install the nightly: pipx install --pip-args '\--pre' yt-dlp
To update the nightly: pipx upgrade --pip-args '\--pre' yt-dlp
I alias the update command and run it before every download session.
(You may need to delete your old yt-dlp binaries before it’ll let you install the new one - use type -a yt-dlp to find them.)
Yt-dlp. It’s basically the only way I download music nowadays.
Someday, when I’m not balls-to-the-wall poor I’ll actually support the artists. Until then, it’s not illegal for personal use, and morally it’s that or just no music.
Speaking of, is there a known way to get around the “sign in” blocking? It’s not working anymore.
It’s fixed in the development versions. If you installed yt-dlp using pip, update with the prerelease flag:
pip install --upgrade --pre yt-dlp. If you manually installed it, runyt-dlp --update-to nightlyor grab the latest dev from their nightly repo.Ah. I’ll switch to pip then. I’ve been using the deb package. Thanks!
I just updated to the newest Ubuntu LTS, which puts pip into system managed mode so you can’t easily install packages outside of a virtual environment anymore.
If you (or anyone who stumbles upon this comment in the future) run into this problem, the new recommended way to install yt-dlp through pip and keep it in your path and up to date is via pipx (
sudo apt install pipx). The syntax is a bit gnarly for pre-releases, so I figured I’d post an update:To install the nightly:
pipx install --pip-args '\--pre' yt-dlpTo update the nightly:
pipx upgrade --pip-args '\--pre' yt-dlpI alias the update command and run it before every download session.
(You may need to delete your old yt-dlp binaries before it’ll let you install the new one - use
type -a yt-dlpto find them.)