WARNING: Your yt-dlp version (XXXX.XX.XX) is older than 90 days!

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#436 opened on Mar 22, 2026 2 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 3/5
Estimated time: 1-2 days
Newbie friendliness: 42/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Needs clarification
Activity status: Quiet
Domain: backend

Research direction

Start by reproducing the YouTube download with the latest Docker image and compare the reported yt-dlp warning with the HTTP 403 failure. The issue is done when the referenced video downloads successfully or the project documents a confirmed workaround for this failure.

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Description

Just started to use Scriberr, had downloaded the latest docker image, and thought I’d have a go at a yourtube video, but it gave me the following error… Is there anything I can do ?

time=17:30:27
level=ERROR
msg=YouTube download failed
url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfbqSRKd3r8
job_id=12c5c1db-3d35-4975-9ee6-eb124bc0d2ea
error=exit status 1
stderr=WARNING: Your yt-dlp version (2025.12.08) is older than 90 days!\n It is strongly recommended to always use the latest version.\n Run \"yt-dlp --update\" or \"yt-dlp -U\" to update.\n To suppress this warning, add --no-update to your command/config.\nWARNING: [youtube] cfbqSRKd3r8: 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\nERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden\n
duration=5.549827637s

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