Help with issue "#30269"

[Shbeebo]

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Hi, I have very very little experience with coding (infact I just made a github account 10 min ago), I have had plenty of fun with ytdl, but I'm having an issue that I know you guys have solved, but I can't decipher how you solved it. It took me like 2 days to install ytdl, so I'm worried I'll break it, when all I want is to download is a silly video of that guy saying "wake up Joe Biden", but it's a "YouTube Short" so I can't.

So what I'm asking is, can someone please explain how you made it so you could download youtube shorts like you did in #30269?

Thank you so much. Sorry to bother.

[gamer191]

The easiest way is to just switch to https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp. If you want you can read the differences in default behavior, but that probably won't be necessary for you, apart from moving your config file if you created one

Actually, just edit the url from https://youtube.com/shorts/XXXXXXX to https://youtube.com/watch?v=XXXXXXX

[pukkandan]

Or even easier, just remove https://youtube.com/shorts/ leaving only youtube-dl XXXXXXXXX

[gamer191]

Oh yeah, I forgot about that 🤣