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in the past I have downloaded Youtube's playlists with youtube-dl without any problem. However, now it downloads 0 videos. Could it have something to do with RIAA's DMCA takedown? Any suggestion or solution? The code I usually use is

youtube-dl -i -f mp4 --write-auto-sub --yes-playlist --output './%(title)s.%(ext)s' UUdp4_l1vPmpN-gDbUwhaRUQ

I have tried with the web URL or the playlist ID, both give me this result:

[youtube:playlist] UUdp4_l1vPmpN-gDbUwhaRUQ: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: UUdp4_l1vPmpN-gDbUwhaRUQ
[youtube:playlist] playlist UUdp4_l1vPmpN-gDbUwhaRUQ: Downloading 0 videos
[download] Finished downloading playlist: UUdp4_l1vPmpN-gDbUwhaRUQ

Also, I have uninstalled/updated youtube-dl (just in case) without improve. Thank you in advance,

Ignasi Piqué Muntané
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It is an issue with youtube-dl, however the youtube-dlc fork has already fixed it.

You can download directly from GitHub or else download it with pip:

python3 -m pip install --upgrade youtube-dlc

UPDATE: youtube-dl has been restored.

LucaTNT
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I was on windows and with youtube-dl -U parameter updated version suddenly did not work on playlists. Then I manually loaded the update directly from http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html. Manually loaded had different size( 7894k ) but same version. 2020.11.24 Update by -U paramater had size 7842k. Thing was for example that command line updated -U version did not understand playlist title: '%(playlist_title)s/ In the target directory playlist name was was always NA. Immediately all started work like old days with manually loaded version.

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  • I am glad it worked. It seems that since Github [stood up for developers] [1] this problem is solved. I could download any playlist with: youtube-dl --yes-playlist 'URL' [1]: https://github.blog/2020-11-16-standing-up-for-developers-youtube-dl-is-back/ – Ignasi Piqué Muntané Nov 26 '20 at 15:40
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I had the same problem just now and was able to resolve it by updating the install.

sudo youtube-dl -U for linux.

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youtube-dl stopped working again it looks like the response from you tube is base64 encoded

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