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Trying to download an audio from youtube.

youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILSr9BbhoJQ
[youtube] ILSr9BbhoJQ: Downloading webpage
[youtube] ILSr9BbhoJQ: Downloading video info webpage
ERROR: ILSr9BbhoJQ: "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.

Then I did this.

sudo apt-get remove youtube-dl
sudo mkdir -pv /usr/local/bin
sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

andy@7_~/Downloads$ youtube-dl -U
bash: /usr/bin/youtube-dl: No such file or directory

youtube-dl is in /usr/bin directory.

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    Does this answer your question? [How can I update youtube-dl?](https://askubuntu.com/questions/380438/how-can-i-update-youtube-dl) [link](https://askubuntu.com/a/1049574/) – karel Jun 09 '20 at 22:49
  • FYI: I'd recommend removing the `apt` installed version if you are getting the `pip install` version. Problems may not appear at once, but may bite you later... You didn't provide your release, I've usually filed a bug & within a few days (usually next day) the newer version is packaged and available for `apt` testing (on later releases esp.) – guiverc Jun 09 '20 at 23:20
  • @karel That link is for a different error message. My errors do not have the word "pip" in them. – fixit7 Jun 10 '20 at 02:22
  • Unfortunately this answer (the linked one) is the only one that works, so I suggest that you try it anyway. You don't have to worry about pip anymore, because this answer does not have the word pip in it. – karel Jun 10 '20 at 02:33
  • Have you tried this? `sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/bin/youtube-dl sudo chmod a+rx /usr/bin/youtube-dl ` If you have the youtube-dl in the right folder you could try run the 2nd command. – Munsko Jun 10 '20 at 02:37
  • That's not a native solution in Ubuntu and it uses `sudo` which is a high risk combination. Ubuntu Software has a package in it which can solve this problem. – karel Jun 10 '20 at 02:39
  • They suggest do that way in the developers page: http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html. The problem with this particular package is that need be updated very frequently. – Munsko Jun 10 '20 at 02:42
  • Ubuntu snap packages are updated frequently and aggressively compared to apt packages from the Ubuntu repositories. In particular the youtube-dl snap package is updated frequently and aggressively. The last time it was updated was 50 days ago. – karel Jun 10 '20 at 02:45
  • The snap edge version used to be excellent, updated frequently. Now it seems the maintainer has run out of gas, can't recommend. What does `which youtube-dl` report? Note that if you're on 20.04 if you use the wget method it downloads a python2 version so you need to have the `python-is-python2` package installed for it to work... – doug Jun 10 '20 at 03:28
  • I see so many responses. I get the impression that downloading a youtube video is a hit or miss thing with youtube-dl. – fixit7 Jun 10 '20 at 04:49

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This came from a Mozilla support group.

Clip Grab

Download it from here.

https://clipgrab.org/faqs/howto-download-youtube-video

Just double click it to run the program.

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