Youtube_dl : ERROR : YouTube said: Unable to extract video data

Question

I\'m making a little graphic interface with Python 3 which should download a youtube video with it URL. I use for that the module youtube_dl. This is my code :

Answer 1

I had the same error on Ubuntu 20.04. I solved it by updating youtube-dl by downloading a .deb from: https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/youtube-dl/download

Though you can also get the update on youtube-dl's official site.