yt-dlp crashed in MX19.4 making clipgrab no longer work.

[DukeComposed]

Is there a way to check the version of yt-dlp in the terminal?

"yt-dlp --version" always works for me.

[siamhie]

Again, this is a situation that one day clipgrab stopped working and yt-dlp in my system was suddenly reporting an unsupported python library error.

The problem is with ClipGrab. It will download yt-dlp for you even if you have it installed on your system.

Here on my system (MX-23) I have yt-dlp 2024.08.01 installed. When I go to ClipGrab's About tab it shows yt-dlp 2024-08-06 instead.

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So I renamed ClipGrab's version and symlinked my system version to the ClipGrab directory.

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which yt-dlp
/usr/bin/yt-dlp

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yt-dlp --version
2024.08.01

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ln -s /usr/bin/yt-dlp ~/.local/share/ClipGrab/ClipGrab/

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ls -l ~/.local/share/ClipGrab/ClipGrab/
total 2904
drwx------ 3 siamhie siamhie    4096 Aug 20 21:48 QtWebEngine
lrwxrwxrwx 1 siamhie siamhie      15 Sep 10 22:21 yt-dlp -> /usr/bin/yt-dlp
-rw-r--r-- 1 siamhie siamhie 2965725 Aug 20 21:48 yt-dlp-BAK

Yet when I start ClipGrab it wants to download yt-dlp even though the file is in it's directory.

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[siamhie]

You can still use yt-dlp in a terminal. I posted how to do this in post #11. viewtopic.php?p=788297#p788297