Again! yt-dlp and the others are crippled

[sofasurfer]

Anyone having success in downloading "the curse of oak island" at https://play.history.com/shows/the-curse-of-oak-island/season-13/episode-1
Last season downloading was no problem but this year I'm seeing errors involving JSON metadata which I had never noticed before.
Heres my experience

$ yt-dlp https://play.history.com/shows/the-curse-of-oak-island/season-11/episode-25
[aenetworks] Extracting URL: https://play.history.com/shows/the-curse-of-oak-island/season-11/episode-25
[aenetworks] /shows/the-curse-of-oak-island/season-11/episode-25: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: [aenetworks] shows/the-curse-of-oak-island/season-11/episode-25: Unable to download JSON metadata: <urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7f1e2034c2f0>: Failed to resolve 'feeds.video.aetnd.com' ([Errno -2] Name or service not known) (caused by TransportError("<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7f1e2034c2f0>: Failed to resolve 'feeds.video.aetnd.com' ([Errno -2] Name or service not known)"))

 

[ron.alan]

Are you using current version 2025.10.22?

 

[sofasurfer]

I also noticed that watching it on the website the video screen

Are you using current version 2025.10.22?

$ yt-dlp --version
2025.09.26

And its up to date

 

[sofasurfer]

it seems that I need to add a repository using the add-apt-repository command. This is my result

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tomtomtom/yt-dlp
sudo: add-apt-repository: command not found

I found this info

   Install software-properties-common: This package provides the add-apt-repository command.

This is my result

$ sudo apt install software-properties-common
Error: Unable to locate package software-properties-common

Thats as far as I got. Basically I need a repository that contains the latest version of yt-dlp. How do I do that?

 

[Trml]

Run

yt-dlp --update

to see the repository your version comes from, and same with sudo to update it.

 

[ron.alan]

Don't use the repo version . . . it gets out of date as far as youtube is concerned. I get it straight off of github, current is 2025.10.22. But for this site it doesn't matter. I tried to download OP's link and I got the same results.

To download yt-dlp off of github:

1) First make sure your current version is completely uninstalled. If any traces are left, it can cause issues.

2)

sudo wget https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -O /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp

3)

sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp

I check for updates here: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp