youtube-dl was broken, updated
April 03, 2020 —
BarryK
Easy has a GUI frontend to 'youtube-dl', a YouTube video
downloader script, written in Python. I tested it today, found that it
didn't work. The GUI has an "Update" button, to download the latest
'youtube-dl', and that fixed it.
YouTube sometimes "move the goal posts" in an attempt to stop video
downloaders, so the authors of 'youtube-dl' have to update the script.
I have updated the 'youtube-dl' PET, it is now
'youtube-dl-20200403.pet'. No change to the GUI, it is still
'youtubedl-gui-0.4.pet'. I haven't uploaded the former yet, but it will
be here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/noarch/packages/pet/pet_packages-noarch/
...but no need to download, they are builtin to Easy.
Tags: easy