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rev.cressy

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Registered: 2016-01-04

Posts: 7

yt-dlp not downloading new Rumble videos.

As of April 7, 2025 the stable version of yt-dlp stopped downloading new rumble.com videos with a message about tar.
Git Bug Report:
[Rumble]: Getting "The extracted extension ('tar') is unusual and will be skipped for safety reasons" On Many Videos (not all) #12869

The problem has been fixed in the latest nightly build.  I downloaded the PKGBUILD file and made the following changes:

    pkgver=2025.04.06
    source=($pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds/releases/download/2025.04.06.232826/yt-dlp.tar.gz)
    sha256sums=('a08a3ac11b445ad58ffafacc67bd83c7525eacf8b8ffe102304a00078ed70afc')

With these changes yt-dlp built fine with:
makepkg --sign -s

For a temporary fix this is my solution.  This will work until a new stable version of yt-dlp is released.

mackin_cheese

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Registered: 2025-01-07

Posts: 475

Re: yt-dlp not downloading new Rumble videos.

this would be better off posted in the AUR page for the package

rev.cressy

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Registered: 2016-01-04

Posts: 7

Re: yt-dlp not downloading new Rumble videos.

yt-dlp is in the extra repository.  It is not a aur package.

mackin_cheese

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Registered: 2025-01-07

Posts: 475

Re: yt-dlp not downloading new Rumble videos.

oh that's on me, i'm an idiot. I saw makepkg and auto assumed aur

xerxes_

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Registered: 2018-04-29

Posts: 923

Re: yt-dlp not downloading new Rumble videos.

Maybe this can be also overriden by changing downloeded file filname, like this:

yt-dlp -f ... -o "%(id)s.%(ext)s" https://...

It works when filename is too long, so maybe in this case also...