• The upstream discussion ([Announcement] Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads yt-dlp/yt-dlp#14404) has now been closed as of 5 days ago and the feature will be present in the next release of yt-dlp.

waiting for the stable release to merge this

the new update will also require https://github.com/yt-dlp/ejs to work
i think it will probably be auto downloaded during runtime, ill test nightly and see if something needs to be added

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/EJS#step-2-install-ejs-challenge-solver-scripts

ejs is not bundled with yt-dlp so we need to:

1. add a seperate package for yt-dlp-ejs
2. or add --remote-components ejs:github to config and download it at runtime

NOTE: ejs has a different license (ISC and MIT) from yt-dlp (Unilicense), and yt-dlp will require a specific version of ejs so we cant just auto update it (i think creating an ejs subpackage is the right way?)

official announcement: yt-dlp/yt-dlp#15012

ejs is not bundled with yt-dlp so we need to:

1. add a seperate package for `yt-dlp-ejs`

2. or add `--remote-components ejs:github` to config and download it at runtime

NOTE: ejs has a different license (ISC and MIT) from yt-dlp (Unilicense), and yt-dlp will require a specific version of ejs so we cant just auto update it (i think creating an ejs subpackage is the right way?)

official announcement: yt-dlp/yt-dlp#15012

I noticed that there is yt-dlp-ejs package in AUR and also, importantly, someone responded to it in its comment and explained:

• that they like the package and think that yes, it is good to have a completely separate package (not subpackage)
• but also, that they recommend some changes to the AUR package that have not yet been implemented.

I suggest starting by reading the code of the AUR yt-dlp-ejs package, and then read the recommendations of the person who commented and try to apply them while writing the Termux package.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/yt-dlp-ejs

or add --remote-components ejs:github to config and download it at runtime

That won't work on IPv6-only networks. --remote-components ejs:npm would work, but that doesn't support nodejs.

add a seperate package for yt-dlp-ejs

It can also be installed using the yt-dlp-ejs package on Pypi (pip's default repository). I don't know if that information is helpful, because I don't use Termux

It can also be installed using the yt-dlp-ejs package on Pypi (pip's default repository). I don't know if that information is helpful, because I don't use Termux

It is helpful, thanks.

The commands pip install yt-dlp and pip install yt-dlp-ejs both do work in Termux, but it was already decided by Tomjo2000 that Termux should also have pkg install python-yt-dlp, so it sounds as though Termux should also have pkg install yt-dlp-ejs to go with the pkg install python-yt-dlp.

will do a revision bump later

This needs to be rebased, the merge conflict needs to be fixed and finally it needs to be squashed.

I'll do that myself now because I'd like to merge this PR immediately after #27211.