brew install failing

[MtnBiker]

➜ brew install youtube-dl
Error: youtube-dl has been disabled because it has a failing test since forever and no new release since 2021! It was disabled on 2024-11-23.

[dirkf]

Obvs, ignore brew and

• install using pip or pip3 from the nightly repo (of which you will be aware since you read READ THIS BEFORE OPENING A NEW ISSUE! THIS MEANS YOU! #30839, as asked), or
• just use the POSIX single file version from the nightly repo after ensuring that you have a Python >= 2.6 (admittedly quite untested in 3.13) that will be found with /usr/bin/env python: eg, make a link named python in the PATH to a previously installed or system-provided python3 executable, bearing in mind that 3.9 is now the lowest version supported by the Python S/w Foundation.

[Isarhamster]

In this case you should update the installation instructions as this clearly states - use homebrew!
Usually, pip simply leads to an error:
-bash: pip: command not found
So the recommended solution should be downloading the executable directly from Latest Nightly

[dcast0607]

This worked for me.

[dirkf]

A solution that installs yt-dlp, not a bad thing in itself, would not help OP who wanted to install youtube_dl, or would not have posted here.

If you don't have a pip or pip3 command in your Python environment, take it up with the supplier of that environment. Some packagers take the view that PyPi is a competitive and potentially conflicting package system and so disable it, even after Python added a pip installation to the default installation.

How did you get on, @MtnBiker ?

[MtnBiker]

I don't have frequent enough need for a downloader, so for now will live with the ads. I fight enough computer problems and python isn't something I've used much; so this is a battle I'll pass on. But thanks for trying to help.

[Isarhamster]

I had to resort to yt-dlp, as after

• Downloading youtube_dl
• ln -s /usr/local/bin/python3 /usr/local/bin/python
• brew install ffmpeg
• spctl --assess /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg
• Then going to System Settings -> Security -> Assessing ffmpeg as ok
• Downloading an arbitrary file from youtube I only got
• Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden. Retrying ...
  whereas yt-dlp didn't have any issue.

[dirkf]

No doubt you hit #32905.

[dirkf]

If OP had installed yt-dl, those look like the necessary steps starting from scratch. The spctl --assess command is a useful hint for anyone with a Mac who hasn't wiped the overbearing OS. From its man page, you can apparently just run spctl --add --label ytdl program_path to white-list each program needed for yt-dl.

spctl --disable --label "Mac App Store" is an interesting example command.

[shellscape]

I'm just surprised y'all haven't worked out the install instructions. The issues here are a minefield of failure reports, and the instructions on the README don't work for most folks without bypassing SSL. Whew.