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What do you think ? If you return an unprocessed HLS URL, yt-dl defers to _ffmpeg_ because it doesn't know whether it can download it. You can process the HLS...

yt-dl can't see the page with its eminently extractable `Next.js` hydration data because the site asked CloudFlare to block non-JS clients (403 Forbidden, enable JS to proceed). If someone can...

Not a duplicate exactly, but a useful reference. However, the linked potential solution requires Node.js, which means two additional external dependencies of which one is unmaintained, so no. If we...

To include non-ASCII characters in the filename, don't use `restrictfilenames`, which deliberately removes non-ASCII non-alphanumeric characters, except `-_`; actually, any sequence of such "insane" (according to the code) characters in...

See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/3092. The patch there doesn't help for me, but the web page that yt-dl sees has `Watch Full Episode` greyed out, possibly indicating that you this function is not...

Gone: * Bugsy Malone * Carry On Follow That Camel Eg: `HTTP Error 404: Not Found (CFD0121a0001: We're really sorry)` Working in #30266: * https://www.itv.com/hub/and-finally-with-trevor-mcdonald-w-t/10a0669a0001

The extractor does this ```py thumbnail = html_search_meta_non_empty( ['og:image', 'twitter:image'], webpage, 'thumbnail', default=None) ``` So it's looking for ``

The error message is quite correct because when `Invoking downloader on 'https://.mp4'`, the string between / and . is empty. Obviously that's not a valid download link. The reason is...

If the site doesn't offer a version of the content that you can play in your browser with EME disabled (or not implemented), yt-dl can't fetch it. Broadcasters that use...

It'll remind me to fix the error-checking eventually.