Yt-dlp no longer downloads videos from YouTube

Update to latest version.

Search for the response error you get -- often the yt-dlp forums will show the latest workaround.

It's because YouTube is now requiring a full JavaScript runtime in order to download and play videos. There are open issues regarding this in the relevant GitHub projects, but the fix has not yet been released.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/14404

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/33186

See also previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45358980

IT DOES NOT WORK! Let's leave it at that.

Btw, YouTube engineers read HN, so if you have any workarounds and you publish them here, those work arounds are going to stop working!

(Yes it does work. Search harder. Don't use Google for that search.)