On 10/22/25 21:40, wirelessduck--- via Dng wrote:
>
>
>> On 23 Oct 2025, at 11:30, David Niklas via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Recently, yt-dlp stopped working on the site it was originally made for,
>> youtube with no easy fix possible.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Problems have been cropping up recently, such as YT's requirement for a
>> PO token to be passed when downloading, but in the last few days the
>> whole manner of getting a video just broke.
>>
>> The authors noted that the complexity of YT's site has significantly
>> increased leading to them needing to support a full JS runtime in their
>> tool whereas they used to use a sort of hacked together python JS runtime.

Maybe someone could write an add-on/extension to Firefox rather than
duplicating major functions that Firefox already has.

>>
>> They suggested that people install the Deno runtime, as it uses a sandbox
>> by default. IDK how much we should trust sandboxes, but that's what they
>> said.[1]
>>
>> Other options include Node version 21 or later (they say that they may try
>> and backport support for version 20). Currently, Devuan stable is running
>> node 18.
>>
>> The other option they intend to support is Bun. [2]
>>
>> They may also support QuickJS in the future, and PhantomJS support is
>> being dropped.
>>
>> Neither Deno nor Bun are available in Devuan repos as far as I can see
>> and backports doesn't contain a newer version of nodejs.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> IDK exactly how updating packages in Devuan work (just depend on Debian?),
>> but I'm writing in hopes that yt-dlp, and thus it's dependencies, can be
>> updated on our systems at some point in time.
>>
>> The update from the yt-dlp folks can be found here[3] and the github
>> issue is here. [4]
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David
>
> fnm can install any version of node. Works for me.
>
> https://github.com/Schniz/fnm <https://github.com/Schniz/fnm>
>
> Otherwise the nodesource apt repository should work if you prefer deb
> packages.
>
> https://nodesource.com/products/distributions <https://nodesource.com/
> products/distributions>
>
> Tom
>
Does installing node or deno make yt-dlp work again? Could someone make
a list of instructions that results in a working youtube downloader?

Best regards,
Fred

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