Youtube-dl Showing Errors

[Ermiasmarino]

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I installed youtube-dl on my Mac using curl, but I am getting the following errors whenever I try to interact with it on the Terminal:

/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token newline' /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl: line 1:

Access denied

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I tried to search for the solution online but I couldn't find it. This is the closest I got. Help.

[dirkf]

1. Review READ THIS BEFORE OPENING A NEW ISSUE! THIS MEANS YOU! #30839.
2. Make sure to install the nightly version rather than the 2021.12 release.
3. Note ERROR: Unable to extract yt initial data on playlist #32499 which affects downloads from YouTube for the moment, or use yt-dlp.
4. Make sure that you have made the downloaded file executable (use chmod as in the installation instructions).
5. Make sure that you have a python command on your PATH, eg by symlinking (as admin)/usr/local/bin/python to your python3, or run the program as python3 /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl ... (this will also work if your problem is 4 above).
6. Remember that modern macOS versions run the zsh shell in Terminal, where ? as well as & are special characters: always 'quote' URLs passed to yt-dl.