Youtube-Dl Broke/Fixing

 'Some folks' use youtube-dl on a regular basis, to pull raw video and create new content.  Early in 2023 it appeared to stop working.  

$ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QWjCzULyNA
[youtube] 8QWjCzULyNA: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract uploader id; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

Forums seemed to imply the issue was known and a fix was in play, so I put my feet up and figured I'd check back in a few weeks.  A month, or two, goes by and reinstallation/retrying didn't seem to resolve.  So I revisited the fix posts and found it referenced a different package/utility so I tried that out.

$ sudo pip3 uninstall youtube-dl

$ sudo pip3 install yt-dlp

$ yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QWjCzULyNA

Hope this helps someone else.

Cheers