[LAU] OT: youtube-dl stopped working

[Ken Restivo]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 02:29:44PM +0200, Dragan Noveski wrote:
> On 22.07.2010 21:58, Ken Restivo wrote:
>> The youtube-dl script all of a sudden stopped working today.
>>
>> I went to their website and there's only one issue open on this, from several days ago, no replies, seems to be no action on this.
>>
>> Is youtube-dl actively maintained? Did Google make it impossible for youtube-dl to work anymore? What's the story? Is anyone working on fixing this? Are there alternatives that actually still work?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -ken
>> _______________________________________________
>>    
> hallo,
> as i know, youtube-dl is a script which is changing pretty often,  
> because youtube himself do some changes...the version in sidux repo is  
> 2010.07.14-1 and it worked just two or 3 days ago, but not any more. the  
> error is the same phillip has: ERROR: format not available for video
>
> i suppose that is gonna be updated soon.
>
>
> ...ok, i just rechecked - on the youtube-dl site, there is already an  
> update and it works well here:
>
> http://bitbucket.org/rg3/youtube-dl/wiki/Home
>


Thanks! That works now.

I'd forgotten to check their repository too, which might have gotten me a working version a day or two ago.

Thanks again everyone.

-ken