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I have open video downloader, which worked before. But now it doesn't. I tried to install pip by putting ensure pip in Python 3.11 but I don't know how to change the greater than signs. Or if you have to. I did hours of research into this. All into youtube-dl and pip. But I never learned how to update it. Do I even have to? I'd love some help.

Raphael Rodgers
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  • Suggest you switch to https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp – Organic Marble May 12 '23 at 00:18
  • youtube isnt a fan of youtube-dl and will be forever trying to break it. the latest incarnation of that is by putting regex in the url, which breaks youtube-dl parser. maybe someone has made a fix for that. – j0h May 12 '23 at 16:06
  • Try Parabolic (previously known as Tube Converter), a nice GUI based on yt-dlp. GitHub: https://github.com/NickvisionApps/Parabolic, Flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/org.nickvision.tubeconverter, Snap: `sudo snap install tube-converter` – Archisman Panigrahi Jun 29 '23 at 00:51
  • Does this answer your question? [How can I update youtube-dl?](https://askubuntu.com/questions/380438/how-can-i-update-youtube-dl) – karel Jul 10 '23 at 00:53

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According to youtube-dl official documentation, you could try

youtube-dl -U

or

youtube-dl --update

or even

sudo -H pip install --upgrade youtube-dl
Dario Costa
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  • I had to do the pip install (3rd option) to get it to work - the first and the second options did not return any errors but youtube downloads kept failing. – gdesilva May 17 '23 at 02:02
  • I have no idea why. Anyway, if you find my answer helpful, please be kind and upvote, thanks! :) – Dario Costa May 18 '23 at 10:00