Description of problem: Clipgrab has stopped downloading Youtube videos. When you give it a Youtube URL, you get a message that there are no downloadable videos on the site. URLs from the Internet Archive, however, do not show the issue. It worked on Youtube just a few days ago. I suspect that yt-dlp needs another update, because that's the usual culprit, but I don't have enough experience with using it outside of Clipgrab to be sure that is the issue. Steps to reproduce: 1. Select a Youtube video to download, and copy the url to the clipboard. 2. Paste the url into Clipgrab.
The yt-dlp version is 11! versions behind the actual one! No wonder that it won‘t work any longer.
CC: (none) => friSummary: Clipgrab won't download Youtube videos => Update request: yt-dlp; Clipgrab won't download Youtube videosAssignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugsSource RPM: (none) => yt-dlp
CC: (none) => mageia
I can confirm the issue with yt-dlp, and can confirm there is a recent update to it. $ yt-dlp 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8cE5skIvok' [youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8cE5skIvok [youtube] y8cE5skIvok: Downloading webpage [youtube] y8cE5skIvok: Downloading ios player API JSON [youtube] y8cE5skIvok: Downloading web creator player API JSON ERROR: [youtube] y8cE5skIvok: Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot. This helps protect our community. Learn more $ yt-dlp --update Current version: stable@2024.08.06 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp Latest version: stable@2025.01.26 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp ERROR: You installed yt-dlp from a manual build or with a package manager; Use that to update
Assigning to QA, Packages in 9/Core/Updates_testing: ====================== yt-dlp-2025.01.26-1.mga9.noarch.rpm yt-dlp-bash-completion-2025.01.26-1.mga9.noarch.rpm yt-dlp-fish-completion-2025.01.26-1.mga9.noarch.rpm yt-dlp-zsh-completion-2025.01.26-1.mga9.noarch.rpm python3-websockets-14.1-1.mga9 From SRPMS yt-dlp-2025.01.26-1.mga9.src.rpm python-websockets-14.1-1.mga9.src.rpm
CC: (none) => geiger.david68210Assignee: pkg-bugs => qa-bugs
I will try this new version. Thanks for the info.
CC: (none) => lloyd.osten
(In reply to Lloyd Osten from comment #4) > I will try this new version. Thanks for the info. I just d/l and installed the new version of yt-dlp plus bash-completion and python-websockets. It appears to be working now.
Attempted to download an old John Wayne movie from Youtube using Clipgrab. It failed as before. Used Qarepo to get the new packages, and updated yt-dlp and python3-websockets. Tried to download the old western again, and this time it was successful. Looks OK to me. Validating the update, on the basis of two successful tests.
Whiteboard: (none) => MGA9-64-OKKeywords: (none) => validated_updateCC: (none) => sysadmin-bugs
Installed and tested without issues. Tested on several random youtube, bitchute, and rumble videos. All ok. System: Mageia 9, x86_64, Plasma DE, AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with Radeon Graphics using amdgpu driver. $ uname -a Linux jupiter 6.6.74-desktop-1.mga9 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat Jan 25 12:11:40 UTC 2025 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ rpm -qa | grep -P 'yt-dlp|python3-websockets' | sort python3-websockets-14.1-1.mga9 yt-dlp-2025.01.26-1.mga9 yt-dlp-bash-completion-2025.01.26-1.mga9
Source RPM: yt-dlp => yt-dlp,python-websockets
Keywords: (none) => advisory
*** Bug 33978 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
CC: (none) => Ed_Werder
An update for this issue has been pushed to the Mageia Updates repository. https://advisories.mageia.org/MGAA-2025-0009.html
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => FIXED