Bug#987226: youtube-dl: ERROR: Unable to extract yt initial data

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Holger,

On  Di 20 Apr 2021 16:17:21 CEST, Holger Levsen wrote:

control: severity -1 important
thanks

Debatable...

hi Mike,

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 09:39:55PM +0000, Mike Gabriel wrote:

Package: youtube-dl
Severity: grave

you didn't really describe why you thought the severity should be grave,
but anyway:

$ youtube-dl https://twitter.com/zemodancingto/status/1381937205787172867#m
[twitter] 1381937205787172867: Downloading guest token
[twitter] 1381937205787172867: Downloading JSON metadata
[twitter] 1381937205787172867: Downloading m3u8 information

[download] 100% of 3.00MiB in 00:01
$

so this clearly shows the package isn't broken for everyone.

[download] Destination: zemo dancing to - Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up-1381937205787172867.mp4

Mike


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Hmm, so rename src:pkg to twitter-dl? (Kidding...) Youtube downloads are broken these days, at least. For a tool being named after Youtube, this surely is a bad thing to have in upcoming Debian stable.

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