ytdl-orgyoutube-dl: Command-line program to download ...

sudo youtube-dl -U It looks like you installed youtube-dl with a package manager, pip, setup.py or a tarball. Please use that to update.

You can also use pip: sudo pip install --upgrade youtube_dl. This command will update youtube-dl if you have already installed it. See the pypi page for more ...

sudo -H pip install --upgrade youtube-dl. This command will update youtube-dl if you have already installed it. See the pypi page for more information. macOS ...

First, uninstall the apt version. sudo apt-get remove youtube-dl. Then, install youtube-dl with pip. sudo apt-get install python3-pip pip3 ...

Is there a way to upgrade to newer versions of yt-dlp or would one need to uninstall it & download a newer version... & is an older version ...

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.

Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

You can use yt-dlp -U to update if you are using the release binaries. If you installed with pip, simply re-run the same command that was used to install ...

update: 2/18開始陸續發生問題#. 原因是因為youtube改版。 不過youtube-dl開發者尚未更新patch，所以下 youtube-dl -U 指令更新目前無效。

Issue seems to be solved in nightly version of youtube-dl, but that version cannot be wget-ed from yt-dl.org because of copyright issue.