youtube-dlg update error

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• If your problem is a bug with youtube-dl or a request for new site support please report it here

• Make sure you are using the latest youtube-dl-gui version (Click the Settings icon and then About to view the current version)

• Make sure you are using the latest youtube-dl version (Click the Settings icon and then Update to update to the latest youtube-dl version)

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  • [x] I think my problem is NOT with youtube-dl
  • [x] I've verified and i assure that I'm running youtube-dl-gui 0.4
  • [x] I assure that i am using the latest version of youtube-dl
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Bug report

If the problem occurs when downloading a URL please provide the full verbose output as follows:

1. Restart youtube-dl-gui
2. Go to Options > Extra tab
3. Enable Debug youtube-dl
4. Go to Options > Advanced tab and Clear your log content
5. Try to download the URL
6. Copy the whole log content and insert it between the ``` part below

delete me and insert your log content here

What operating system do you use ?

Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit

List of actions to perform to reproduce the problem:

1. Open youtube-dlg
2. Open settings
3. Select "update"

What is the expected behaviour ?

It should say "downloading latest youtube-dl. please wait...", and then after a few seconds say something like "youtube-dl downloaded successfully.".

What happens instead ?

It says "downloading latest youtube-dl. please wait...", but then after a few seconds it says "youtube-dl download failed [http error 403: forbidden]".

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Feature request (request for a new functionality)

Please make sure that the requested feature is NOT already in the TODO list

• [x] I've verified and i assure that my requested feature is NOT in the TODO list

What operating system do you use ?

Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit

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When you go to youtube-dlg's settings and select "update", it says "downloading latest youtube-dl. please wait...", but then after a few seconds it says "youtube-dl download failed [http error 403: forbidden]". This issue never used to happen before, and it always used to just download the update successfully and say "downloading latest youtube-dl. please wait...", and then after a few seconds say something like "youtube-dl downloaded successfully." without any issues. Nothing has changed with the program installation or settings. Is there a way to fix that? Thanks.

[Technetium1]

This https://github.com/MrS0m30n3/youtube-dl-gui/blob/c5c18e55cb7e04fb6d6d8e64024a7dbac1f6b431/youtube_dl_gui/updatemanager.py#L48 needs to be changed to https://youtube-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl

If you're on windows you can download youtube-dl.exe and place it in %AppData%\youtube-dlg

[UltraBlackLinux]

Does not work for me, still 403

[lunarbunny]

This

https://github.com/MrS0m30n3/youtube-dl-gui/blob/c5c18e55cb7e04fb6d6d8e64024a7dbac1f6b431/youtube_dl_gui/updatemanager.py#L48

needs to be changed to https://youtube-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl.exe

If you're on windows you can download youtube-dl.exe and place it in %AppData%\youtube-dlg

The equivalent path for linux would be ~/.config/youtube-dlg/

I simply overwrote it using the latest version installed from pip: cat ~/.local/bin/youtube-dl > .config/youtube-dlg/youtube-dl

[RedBreloom]

This

https://github.com/MrS0m30n3/youtube-dl-gui/blob/c5c18e55cb7e04fb6d6d8e64024a7dbac1f6b431/youtube_dl_gui/updatemanager.py#L48

needs to be changed to https://youtube-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl.exe

If you're on windows you can download youtube-dl.exe and place it in %AppData%\youtube-dlg

I have the windows exe version so I tried to replace the .exe in the specified directory, but it doesn't appear to have done anything for me either. Do I need to update something else?

[Technetium1]

@RedBreloom Edited my comment, it shouldn't have .exe

[RedBreloom]

@RedBreloom Edited my comment, it shouldn't have .exe

I am using the windows executable version of this app so I am not sure how to access the code directly and trying to replace the youtube-dl.exe in appdata it doesn't seem to fix this issue. I also realized that this error post is not the same as the one i have. But another person who had the same problem as I was directed to this post so I figured i'd ask here as well. i'm not really sure what to do otherwise. #https://github.com/MrS0m30n3/youtube-dl-gui/issues/488 for reference

[Technetium1]

@RedBreloom make sure youtube-dl isn't in your path somewhere else already, if all else fails remove it all and try again. You should probably make another issue if this persists.

[tronics]

What you need on Windows is this library: https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=5555 This is what makes it work on a freshly installed Windows 10.

All of the above commentary is not necessary since the library is back on Github despite interventions from Google.

[erhan-]

What you need on Windows is this library: https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=5555 This is what makes it work on a freshly installed Windows 10.

All of the above commentary is not necessary since the library is back on Github despite interventions from Google.

Yep this is what I do on all systems of friends where I install youtube-dl-gui. I always had to search inside the closed Issues for the link.

Just tested on a freshly installed system. It works as usual. Too bad this is not more visible.

[RedBreloom]

As a note: I already had a more recent version of that redis installed on my computer. So I don't think that mattered for my case.. It doesn't seem like this program is being maintained anymore anyway, so I've been using tartube for now.