Error on youtube shorts videos, and solution

[houndmannn]

I'm a complete newbie here, so, sorry if I'm repeating or not following the guidelines properly...
On trying to download the new-ish SHORTs category with youtube-dl (latest - 2021.12.17), I get this error "ERROR: Unable to recognize tab page;..." (complete output below).
BUT a simple change to the URL has fixed the problem for at least 4 SHORTs URLs:
ERROR on https://youtube.com/shorts/KreMNfKqalg?feature=share
is fixed by changing to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KreMNfKqalg
i.e.

1. replacing "shorts/" with "watch?v=" (NO quotes)
2. deleting the ending "?feature=share" (again NO quotes)

BELOW is the complete youtube-dl --verbose output:

20220613-143125:.../XXX> youtube-dl --verbose "https://youtube.com/shorts/KreMNfKqalg?feature=share"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'https://youtube.com/shorts/KreMNfKqalg?feature=share']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 (CPython) - Darwin-13.4.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-103507-g70f06dd63c-tessus
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube:tab] shorts: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to recognize tab page; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 815, in wrapper
return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 836, in __extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 534, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 2862, in _real_extract
raise ExtractorError('Unable to recognize tab page')
ExtractorError: Unable to recognize tab page; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

[dirkf]

Exactly, you discovered the work-around to be used until you install either the git master, or a future release based on it.

Duplicate of #30269.

[houndmannn]

Ah, thanks Dirk! Sorry to bother you. Now I have to find the git master, "youtube-dl -U" hasn't worked for a while

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