A note on youtube-dl

Hiisi hiisi at fedoraproject.org
Sun Sep 30 10:53:22 UTC 2012


On 30 September 2012 14:22, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi folks! :-)
>
> Just a small note... I just tried and found out that the youtube-dl doesn't
> work anymore. Reading the youtube-dl FAQ page, it says that YouTube has
> changed the protocol again (since September 2012) and that we should update
> the script to the latest version.
>
> The "sudo youtube-dl --update" works as expected (and once updated, it
> downloads stuff fine), but I guess someone should notify the relevant package
> maintainer to update the rpm package, so that it gets pulled in with an
> ordinary yum update.
>
> I wasted half an hour hunting this down, so that noone else needs to. ;-)
>
> HTH, :-)
> Marko
>
>

You don't need any script at all. Just copy the appropriate video file
from /tmp folder when video is watched. That always worked for me.
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