Answering previous questions in public, youtube-dl is actively maintained. It sometimes takes a few days for me to fix problems, because I have a full time job and a family, so obviosly I have stuff to do. In this case, also, it seems bitbucket is no longer mailing me when someone opens a new issue, but I didn't find out about this and the program breaking until people started to mail me directly. The changes YouTube made prompted me to refactor the code for YouTube and now I use a slightly different method to get the videos, but I just released today a new version that should combine the best of the new and old code, and it should work perfectly. If it doesn't work, please report bugs to me directly over email. It's the best method. However, always make sure you report the video(s) you're having problems with, the program version, and how you are using the program (i.e. the full command you use and the program output). These days people are mailing me and opening issues in the issue tracker because the program stopped working for them and it's very frustrating to read those reports as almost nobody ever mentions the youtube-dl version and give examples. It's hard to know if it's really a bug because of the new code or if they're simply using the old program version. I'm supposing the second case until they prove me wrong or it suddenly stops working for me too. Best regards.