Yt-dlp

juancuyo · August 19, 2026, 7:25pm

Good afternoon, a few days ago a problem occurred in yt-dlp, it seems that there are dependencies that are blocking its use, I leave the summary here: Operating System: Mabox Linux (Rolling-release based on Arch)
yt-dlp version: stable
2026.07.04 (Updated by AUR)
Problem: Error 403 Forbidden when trying to download audio/video from YouTube.
Terminal warning: ‘No supported JavaScript runtime could be found. Only deno is enabled by default’.
Additional detail: Previously it gave a syntax error in Python 3.14 with the ‘yt_dlp_plugins.extractor.getpot_wpc’ plugin. I already tried using ‘–no-plugins’ and setting the pull player_clients without success. Currently I cannot use yt-dlp in any way

napcok · August 19, 2026, 7:47pm

Known bug, already reported…

github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Youtube video fails to download, still recorded as complete in archive file

opened 06:47AM - 18 Aug 26 UTC

rjbprime

question

### Checklist - [x] I've read the [**NO AI / NO LLM POLICY**](https://github.co…m/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#no-ai--no-llm-policy) and understand I may be blocked from the repository if it is violated - [x] I'm reporting that yt-dlp is broken on a **supported** site - [x] I've verified that I have **updated yt-dlp to nightly or master** ([update instructions](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#update-channels)) - [x] I've checked that all provided URLs are playable in a browser with the same IP and same login details - [x] I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are [properly quoted or escaped](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/FAQ#video-url-contains-an-ampersand--and-im-getting-some-strange-output-1-2839-or-v-is-not-recognized-as-an-internal-or-external-command) - [x] I've searched [known issues](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/3766), [the FAQ](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/FAQ), and the [bugtracker](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20-label%3Aspam%20%20) for similar issues **including closed ones**. DO NOT post duplicates - [ ] I've read about [sharing account credentials](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#are-you-willing-to-share-account-details-if-needed) and I'm willing to share it if required ### Region Australia ### Provide a description that is worded well enough to be understood I am attempting downloading [Eluktronics N970TF Teardown! i9-9900 Desktop CPU Installation!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H_A4HdZms8), the other videos in the playlist worked. Videos I have downloaded before and after in the same session have worked. yt-dlp is getting to a point in the video, then spitting out download errors, retrying, fails, and records the download as complete in my archived.txt file. It also mentions errors on line numbers in several internal py files. ### Provide verbose output that clearly demonstrates the problem - [x] Run **your** yt-dlp command with **-vU** flag added (`yt-dlp -vU <your command line>`) - [ ] If using API, add `'verbose': True` to `YoutubeDL` params instead - [x] Copy the WHOLE output (starting with `[debug] Command-line config`) and insert it below ### Complete Verbose Output ```shell yt-dlp -U && yt-dlp -vU -i -N 32 --progress --console-title --hls-prefer-ffmpeg --ffmpeg-location "C:\Apps\bin\yt-dlp" --windows-filenames --compat filename-sanitization --mtime --write-subs --embed-subs --sub-langs en.* --sub-format "srt/best" --convert-subs srt --no-write-auto-subs --embed-thumbnail --embed-chapters --sponsorblock-mark all --add-metadata -S res:1080,vcodec:av1 --remux-video mkv --prefer-free-formats --part -o "C:/Shared/YT/%(uploader)s/%(upload_date>%Y-%m-%d)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s" --force-write-archive --download-archive "C:/Shared/YT/archive.txt" --write-description --compat-options no-direct-merge --sleep-interval 5 --max-sleep-interval 10 --cookies-from-browser firefox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H_A4HdZms8 Latest version: nightly@2026.08.17.073947 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds yt-dlp is up to date (nightly@2026.08.17.073947 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds) [debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', '-i', '-N', '32', '--progress', '--console-title', '--hls-prefer-ffmpeg', '--ffmpeg-location', 'C:\\Apps\\bin\\yt-dlp', '--windows-filenames', '--compat', 'filename-sanitization', '--mtime', '--write-subs', '--embed-subs', '--sub-langs', 'en.*', '--sub-format', 'srt/best', '--convert-subs', 'srt', '--no-write-auto-subs', '--embed-thumbnail', '--embed-chapters', '--sponsorblock-mark', 'all', '--add-metadata', '-S', 'res:1080,vcodec:av1', '--remux-video', 'mkv', '--prefer-free-formats', '--part', '-o', 'C:/Shared/YT/%(uploader)s/%(upload_date>%Y-%m-%d)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s', '--force-write-archive', '--download-archive', 'C:/Shared/YT/archive.txt', '--write-description', '--compat-options', 'no-direct-merge', '--sleep-interval', '5', '--max-sleep-interval', '10', '--cookies-from-browser', 'firefox', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H_A4HdZms8'] [debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, pref cp1252, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8 [debug] yt-dlp version nightly@2026.08.17.073947 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds [f1896c57f] (win_exe) [debug] Compatibility options: filename-sanitization, no-direct-merge [debug] Python 3.10.11 (CPython AMD64 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.19044-SP0 (OpenSSL 1.1.1t 7 Feb 2023) [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-126175-g0056dd32fd-20260816 (setts), ffprobe N-126175-g0056dd32fd-20260816 [debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.23.0, brotli-1.2.0, certifi-2026.07.22, curl_cffi-0.16.0, mutagen-1.48.1, requests-2.34.2, sqlite3-3.40.1, urllib3-2.7.0, websockets-16.1.1, yt_dlp_ejs-0.8.0 [debug] JS runtimes: deno-2.9.5 [debug] Proxy map: {} Extracting cookies from firefox [debug] Extracting cookies from: "C:\Users\Rox\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\gw9az0f0.default-esr\cookies.sqlite" [debug] Firefox cookies database version: 15 Extracted 488 cookies from firefox [debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets, curl_cffi [debug] Plugin directories: none [debug] Loaded 1744 extractors [debug] Loading archive file 'C:/Shared/YT/archive.txt' [debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds/releases/latest Latest version: nightly@2026.08.17.073947 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds yt-dlp is up to date (nightly@2026.08.17.073947 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds) [debug] [youtube] Found YouTube account cookies [debug] [youtube] [pot] PO Token Providers: none [debug] [youtube] [pot] PO Token Cache Providers: memory [debug] [youtube] [pot] PO Token Cache Spec Providers: webpo [debug] [youtube] [jsc] JS Challenge Providers: bun (unavailable), deno, node (unavailable), quickjs (unavailable) [youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H_A4HdZms8 [youtube] 8H_A4HdZms8: Downloading webpage [debug] [youtube] Forcing "main" player JS variant for player c74cbcd6 original url = /s/player/c74cbcd6/player_es6.vflset/en_US/base.js [youtube] 8H_A4HdZms8: Downloading tv downgraded player API JSON [debug] [youtube] 8H_A4HdZms8: Detected a 15s ad skippable after 5s for tv_downgraded [debug] [youtube] 8H_A4HdZms8: Detected a 15s ad skippable after 5s for web [debug] [youtube] 8H_A4HdZms8: Detected a 22s ad skippable after 5s for web [youtube] 8H_A4HdZms8: Downloading player c74cbcd6-main [youtube] [jsc:deno] Solving JS challenges using deno [debug] [youtube] [jsc:deno] Using challenge solver lib script v0.8.0 (source: python package, variant: minified) [debug] [youtube] [jsc:deno] Using challenge solver core script v0.8.0 (source: python package, variant: minified) [debug] [youtube] [jsc:deno] Running deno: 'C:\Apps\bin\yt-dlp\deno.EXE' run --ext=js --no-code-cache --no-prompt --no-remote --no-lock --node-modules-dir=none --no-config --no-npm --cached-only - [debug] Sort order given by user: res:1080, vcodec:av1 [debug] Sort order given by extractor: quality, res, fps, hdr:12, source, vcodec, channels, acodec, lang, proto [debug] Formats sorted by: hasvid, ie_pref, res:1080(1080.0), vcodec:av1(11), quality, fps, hdr:12(7), source, channels, acodec, lang, proto, size, br, asr, vext, aext, hasaud, id [SponsorBlock] Fetching SponsorBlock segments [debug] SponsorBlock query: https://sponsor.ajay.app/api/skipSegments/af10?service=YouTube&categories=%5B%22intro%22%2C+%22music_offtopic%22%2C+%22interaction%22%2C+%22selfpromo%22%2C+%22chapter%22%2C+%22filler%22%2C+%22poi_highlight%22%2C+%22sponsor%22%2C+%22outro%22%2C+%22hook%22%2C+%22preview%22%5D&actionTypes=%5B%22skip%22%2C+%22poi%22%2C+%22chapter%22%5D [SponsorBlock] No matching segments were found in the SponsorBlock database [debug] Default format spec: bestvideo*+bestaudio/best [info] 8H_A4HdZms8: Downloading 1 format(s): 299+251 [info] Writing video description to: C:\Shared\YT\Bob Of All Trades\2019-08-19\Eluktronics N970TF Teardown! i9-9900 Desktop CPU Installation!.description [info] There are no subtitles for the requested languages [info] Downloading video thumbnail 41 ... [info] Writing video thumbnail 41 to: C:\Shared\YT\Bob Of All Trades\2019-08-19\Eluktronics N970TF Teardown! i9-9900 Desktop CPU Installation!.webp [SubtitlesConvertor] There aren't any subtitles to convert [debug] Invoking http downloader on "https://rr3---sn-u2bpouxgoxu-coxk.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1787056939&ei=y_6Dat3fKJXB4t4P4YniyQg&ip=193.116.218.205&id=o-AM4ygu0avQTeAkEfkjIGzMPAAB7TmsULr8PhouoWLSYB&itag=299&aitags=134%2C136%2C160%2C243%2C298%2C299&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&xpc=EgVo2aDSNQ%3D%3D&cps=323&met=1787035339%2C&mh=SK&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-u2bpouxgoxu-coxk%2Csn-ntqe6n7k&ms=au%2Crdu&mv=m&mvi=3&pl=23&rms=au%2Cau&initcwndbps=3270000&siu=1&bui=AR3QkAm-u6f172BOnsetnETSMwhNu6HdpIrbrqkuefbqrAhu_CpMPv75ja2Sz0sSUKgrFJBs7Q&spc=KBGBclwmBwGaFiZ4He6UAMfs0Vw&vprv=1&svpuc=1&mime=video%2Fmp4&ns=uObcnacRcrgJQNX8X7oCH44X&rqh=1&gir=yes&clen=208482937&dur=336.466&lmt=1739916205843054&mt=1787034773&fvip=4&keepalive=yes&lmw=1&fexp=51565115%2C51946838%2C52149337&c=TVHTML5&sefc=1&txp=8208224&n=7AdneobF8YZmfg&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Caitags%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cxpc%2Csiu%2Cbui%2Cspc%2Cvprv%2Csvpuc%2Cmime%2Cns%2Crqh%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=AE0s2JYwRQIhAKT-VCWCy3fS8bcTQhWqCWd0oWIv2mPC7TRGOuyN6sKZAiAmr30tVm91bsrA7od4-CPLjMmABeWgN9uA9dtMsC3qIA%3D%3D&lsparams=cps%2Cmet%2Cmh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Crms%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=APaTxxMwRgIhALu30BwnvgAwNEynFv5gqqsi5gIYzo4WcQO56dASqLglAiEA96PGRefAx69VINsCtHU3el75ASBX8CX6f_Xso4eWc1s%3D" [download] Sleeping 8.96 seconds ... [debug] File locking is not supported. Proceeding without locking [download] Destination: C:\Shared\YT\Bob Of All Trades\2019-08-19\Eluktronics N970TF Teardown! i9-9900 Desktop CPU Installation!.f299.mp4 [download] 49.1% of 198.82MiB at 52.30MiB/s ETA 00:01[download] Got error: 942166 bytes read, 9476288 more expected. Retrying (1/10)... [download] Destination: C:\Shared\YT\Bob Of All Trades\2019-08-19\Eluktronics N970TF Teardown! i9-9900 Desktop CPU Installation!.f299.mp4 [download] 49.2% of 198.82MiB at 7.78MiB/s ETA 00:12[download] Got error: 418902 bytes read, 9625803 more expected. Retrying (2/10)... [download] Destination: C:\Shared\YT\Bob Of All Trades\2019-08-19\Eluktronics N970TF Teardown! i9-9900 Desktop CPU Installation!.f299.mp4 [download] 49.3% of 198.82MiB at 5.07MiB/s ETA 00:19[download] Got error: 157782 bytes read, 9989504 more expected. Retrying (3/10)... [download] Destination: C:\Shared\YT\Bob Of All Trades\2019-08-19\Eluktronics N970TF Teardown! i9-9900 Desktop CPU Installation!.f299.mp4 [download] 49.3% of 198.82MiB at 2.71MiB/s ETA 00:37[download] Got error: 27734 bytes read, 10001215 more expected. Retrying (4/10)... [download] Destination: C:\Shared\YT\Bob Of All Trades\2019-08-19\Eluktronics N970TF Teardown! i9-9900 Desktop CPU Installation!.f299.mp4 [download] 49.3% of 198.82MiB at 3.40MiB/s ETA 00:29[download] Got error: 12374 bytes read, 10386574 more expected. Retrying (5/10)... [download] Destination: C:\Shared\YT\Bob Of All Trades\2019-08-19\Eluktronics N970TF Teardown! i9-9900 Desktop CPU Installation!.f299.mp4 [download] 49.3% of 198.82MiB at 1000.87KiB/s ETA 01:43[download] Got error: 5206 bytes read, 9962163 more expected. Retrying (6/10)... [download] Destination: C:\Shared\YT\Bob Of All Trades\2019-08-19\Eluktronics N970TF Teardown! i9-9900 Desktop CPU Installation!.f299.mp4 [download] 49.3% of 198.82MiB at Unknown B/s ETA Unknown[download] Got error: 2134 bytes read, 10304782 more expected. Retrying (7/10)... [download] Destination: C:\Shared\YT\Bob Of All Trades\2019-08-19\Eluktronics N970TF Teardown! i9-9900 Desktop CPU Installation!.f299.mp4 [download] 49.3% of 198.82MiB at 985.74KiB/s ETA 01:44[download] Got error: 1110 bytes read, 10119020 more expected. Retrying (8/10)... [download] Got error: 86 bytes read, 10100714 more expected. Retrying (9/10)... [download] Got error: 86 bytes read, 10193916 more expected. Retrying (10/10)... [download] Got error: 86 bytes read, 10093661 more expected. Giving up after 10 retries File "__main__.py", line 17, in <module> File "yt_dlp\__init__.py", line 1080, in main File "yt_dlp\__init__.py", line 1071, in _real_main File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 3715, in download File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 3688, in wrapper File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 1721, in extract_info File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 1732, in wrapper File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 1888, in __extract_info File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 1947, in process_ie_result File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 3135, in process_video_result File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 195, in wrapper File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 3571, in process_info File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 3324, in dl File "yt_dlp\downloader\common.py", line 480, in download File "yt_dlp\downloader\http.py", line 360, in real_download File "yt_dlp\utils\_utils.py", line 5300, in __iter__ File "yt_dlp\downloader\common.py", line 413, in report_retry File "yt_dlp\utils\_utils.py", line 5307, in report_retry File "yt_dlp\downloader\common.py", line 416, in <lambda> File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 1166, in report_error File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 1093, in trouble [debug] Invoking http downloader on "https://rr3---sn-u2bpouxgoxu-coxk.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1787056939&ei=y_6Dat3fKJXB4t4P4YniyQg&ip=193.116.218.205&id=o-AM4ygu0avQTeAkEfkjIGzMPAAB7TmsULr8PhouoWLSYB&itag=251&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&xpc=EgVo2aDSNQ%3D%3D&cps=323&met=1787035339%2C&mh=SK&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-u2bpouxgoxu-coxk%2Csn-ntqe6n7k&ms=au%2Crdu&mv=m&mvi=3&pl=23&rms=au%2Cau&initcwndbps=3270000&siu=1&bui=AR3QkAm-u6f172BOnsetnETSMwhNu6HdpIrbrqkuefbqrAhu_CpMPv75ja2Sz0sSUKgrFJBs7Q&spc=KBGBclwmBwGaFiZ4He6UAMfs0Vw&vprv=1&svpuc=1&mime=audio%2Fwebm&ns=uObcnacRcrgJQNX8X7oCH44X&rqh=1&gir=yes&clen=5335030&dur=336.481&lmt=1711654342748552&mt=1787034773&fvip=4&keepalive=yes&lmw=1&fexp=51565115%2C51946838%2C52149337&c=TVHTML5&sefc=1&txp=8218224&n=7AdneobF8YZmfg&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cxpc%2Csiu%2Cbui%2Cspc%2Cvprv%2Csvpuc%2Cmime%2Cns%2Crqh%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=AE0s2JYwRQIgH2nnHFuD0mbE1HgYcBkO7FEpypvOmqXCo0bliodIetECIQD9l5i7IE-YUJmw_BE38YjmJriXslNCDKiImoA4DpwPRA%3D%3D&lsparams=cps%2Cmet%2Cmh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Crms%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=APaTxxMwRgIhALu30BwnvgAwNEynFv5gqqsi5gIYzo4WcQO56dASqLglAiEA96PGRefAx69VINsCtHU3el75ASBX8CX6f_Xso4eWc1s%3D" [download] Sleeping 8.46 seconds ... [download] Destination: C:\Shared\YT\Bob Of All Trades\2019-08-19\Eluktronics N970TF Teardown! i9-9900 Desktop CPU Installation!.f251.webm [download] 100% of 5.09MiB in 00:00:00 at 10.44MiB/s [debug] Adding to archive: youtube 8H_A4HdZms8 ```

juancuyo · August 19, 2026, 10:09pm

What alternatives are there to download only the audio or videos in different formats?

napcok · August 19, 2026, 10:25pm

You can use yt-dlp-nightly-bin from AUR. It’s already fixed in the nightly build.

danielhb · August 20, 2026, 4:19am

I resolved it using Anthropic Claude and/or Gemini. I can’t remember which of the two – I think both.
I can’t remember the steps we followed either; I’ve been sticking my nose into so many things of late… HAHAHA!

napcok · August 20, 2026, 6:50am

The new yt‑dlp-2026.08.19 version has already been released.
I’ve also made it available in the Mabox repo because the update in the Arch repos may appear within a few days, and in Manjaro it might take even a few weeks

To update just run:

yay

juancuyo · August 20, 2026, 5:54pm

good afternoon, now ty-dlp works correctly, yesterday I updated yay. thank you very much for your help.