I will get VideoDownloader then & try it.
I believe it’s because of YouTube having changed its URLs on a number of videos recently. I’ve had it happening to myself as well.
Using yt-dlp by itself works — and very well too — but clipgrab now segfaults with some weird error message as soon as I paste the URL into the field.
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Since the last time yt-dl failed through YouTube’s shenanigans I never bothered with GUI front ends - but I haven’t had any errors for quite a while… so it’s possibly a nebulous error (YouTube not being consistent across all countries/servers).
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Well atleast the other sites seem to work, I haven’t tried everyone. So I can’t say they all work.
I had tried CllpGrab again and after the start it wanted to make an update (unfortunately not noted what, perhaps yt-dlp). I approved this and since then everything has been running as before: perfectly.
Yes, it always checks yt-dlp for the latest version, and if the installed version is not the latest, it’ll download the newest one and then stores it locally in your home directory.
Cool, working now. Some vids failed though.
Hello Aragon,
do you have to remove this yt-dpl from the home directory from time to time, or just leave it as it is?
I just leave it “as is”. It’s only a Python script — in other words, it’s a plain text file — and the downloaded copy gets stored in the directory where clipgrab itself keeps its configuration.
Removing it would be pointless, because upon the next time you launch clipgrab and it doesn’t like the version installed system-wide, it’ll download a new copy anyway.
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