For a moment, 403, 403, 403, I thought that YouTube had blocked all of the VPN connections.
And there was this :

WARNING: [youtube] [zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz]: Some web client https formats have been skipped as they are missing a url. YouTube is forcing SABR streaming for this client. See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12482 for more details

There was also a new version of yt-dlp

yt-dlp_linux -U

Updated yt-dlp to stable@2026.01.29 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp

And after trying yet another country there's download success. 🥳

#ytdlp #youtube #opensource #privacy #adblocking #google

New blogpost:

"Injecting deno into yt-dlp venv via pipx"

It's easy when you know how, I guess...

https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/02/injecting-dependencies-with-pipx/

#linux #python #ytdlp

If anyone has noticed the JavaScript runtime warnings for 'yt-dlp' on a GNU/Linux system, the easiest fix, if you already have 'nodjs' installed, is to create the following file...

"~/.yt-dlp/config.txt"

...with the following contents...

--js-runtimes node --remote-components ejs:github

And yes, it starts with "--" and nothing else beforehand. You do not need anything else afterwards either unless you know what you are doing.

#linux #youtube #javascript #nodejs #ytdlp #terminal #commandline

If anyone has noticed the JavaScript runtime warnings for 'yt-dlp' on a GNU/Linux system, the easiest fix, if you already have 'nodjs' installed, is to create the following file...

"~/.yt-dlp/config.txt"

...with the following contents...

--js-runtimes node --remote-components ejs:github

And yes, it starts with "--" and nothing else beforehand. You do not need anything else afterwards either unless you know what you are doing.

#linux #youtube #javascript #nodejs #ytdlp #terminal #commandline

New blogpost:

"Injecting deno into yt-dlp venv via pipx"

It's easy when you know how, I guess...

https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/02/injecting-dependencies-with-pipx/

#linux #python #ytdlp