Ubuntu – unable to download using youtube-dl

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I am unable to download videos from Youtube using youtube-dl. Below is the code. Please help!

root@itzamlan10:~# sudo apt-get install youtube-dl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
youtube-dl is already the newest version.

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 82 not upgraded.
root@itzamlan10:~#
root@itzamlan10:~# youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wNvUHBVw5U
[youtube] 2wNvUHBVw5U: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests (caused by HTTPError()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug .
Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its com
plete output.

Best Answer

Your problem is almost certainly because you're running an older version of youtube-dl.

You should uninstall the apt version with 

apt-get purge youtube-dl

and then install it with pip instead.

pip3 install youtube-dl

If you don't have pip3, you can install it with, 

apt-get install python3-pip

or see this for more help on that.

The youtube-dl package in the apt repo for jessie(and maybe even trusty) hasn't been updated in almost a year.

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