Elengrab: YouTube Download Error Fixed
Some Elengrab users may have recently encountered an HTTP 403 error when downloading certain YouTube videos:
`ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden (with android_vr)`
This happened because YouTube made changes to the way some videos are delivered. As a result, yt-dlp could no longer properly access the video data in certain cases.
The issue was addressed in yt-dlp 2026.08.19.
I have updated the Elengrab Docker container to include the new version of yt-dlp. The container already supports automatic yt-dlp updates, so the new version should be installed automatically.
If you experienced problems downloading some YouTube videos, please check your yt-dlp version. If it has not been updated automatically, update your Elengrab container to v0.24.2 or use neosy/elengrab:latest.
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