Raspbian Buster uses old version of youtube-dl that cannot download anything

[Necrocoder]

The raspbian repository provides a version of youtube-dl that cannot download anything. The latest version in the repository is as old as 2019.01.17.
Does anyone here know of a way of notifying someone that can submit a working version of youtube-dl?

[ShiftPlusOne]

Once a Debian release is marked stable, in general, the upstream version of packages is frozen. There's nobody to notify, it's all by design.

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/ ... youtube-dl

[scruss]

youtube-dl is something that works best if you install it outside the apt package management system. If you have the system package installed, remove it with:

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sudo apt remove youtube-dl

and install the current version using:

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sudo apt -y install python3-pip
sudo pip3 install youtube-dl

When downloads start to fail and you need to update it, you can do this:

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sudo pip3 install --upgrade youtube-dl

I don't know of a way of keeping youtube-dl automatically up to date. It's updated daily.

[Thinkcat]

youtube-dl has its own, internal update mechanism. You simply invoke it with youtube-dl -U.

Of course you need to run it as a user who has write permissions to the executable. I have it in my home folder in a subdirectory.

[gkreidl]

youtube-dl has its own, internal update mechanism. You simply invoke it with youtube-dl -U.

Of course you need to run it as a user who has write permissions to the executable. I have it in my home folder in a subdirectory.

This only works with the all-in-one version (which contains all modules within an internal zip file). But this is rather slow (loading and converting hundreds of modules). It's much better to install and upgrade it using pip(3).

[Necrocoder]

Finally it is possible to download from YouTube again. Thank you all!