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When youtube-dl is installed through homebrew on an M1 Macbook Air with these commands, the resulting instance doesn't support reddit video downloads and requires some URLs to be in quotation marks:

brew install youtube-dl

Instead, if youtube-dl is installed via these commands, the resulting instance doesn't have the same issues:

sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

I'm curious to know what the difference is between these installs but haven't been able to figure it out on my own.

user1395909
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doesn't support reddit video downloads(...)doesn't have the same issue

Reason which comes first to mind is that you installed different versions, this

sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

does grab latest version from youtube-dl webpage, which is most probably where new version will appear first, whilst

brew install youtube-dl

does grab version which is present in brew repository, it depend on maintainer of youtube-dl for brew, which might update it less often.

Note that in case of youtube-dl it is possible to have version which once did worked correctly with certain content provider e.g. reddit video but it is not longer due to changes in that, say reddit video change way you have to access their material.

Daweo
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