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youtube-dl can't extract info anymore from YouTube
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Description

Also, the FreeBSD package youtube-dl isn't available anymore on FreeBSD 15 packages repository.

youtube-dl is still available on Windriver, but can't fetch info easily from YouTube:

$ youtube-dl -e "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da9GtyfW6Xc"
ERROR: Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot. Use --username and --password or --netrc to provide account credentials.

Recommendation is to use yt-dlp, https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp


Acceptance criteria:

  • In rVIPER, procedure url:getvideotitle can read video titles again
  • In rOPS, roles/viperserv/software/init.sls doesn't install youtube-dl anymore, and install instead the other solution if needed