debian 13.1, yt-dlp stable@2025.11.12 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp, updated with yt-dlp -U

I also installed deno on the terminal with curl -fsSL https://deno.land/install.sh | sh

however, nothing happens if I execute yt-dlp, like: yt-dlp --all-subs --no-warnings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bhuN9nqEb4 returns nothing.

All my terminal shows after executing a command like the one pasted I get:

>

that's it, a > and nothing else.

Am I doing something wrong?

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[–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

That prompt typically means the command line is expecting more. Try putting the url in quotes. That may fix it.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Remove --no-warning and see log? :D

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Semi-related for people whose distros don't package deno, I installed deno in a distrobox and exported it with distrobox-export and yt-dlp picked it up just fine from my $PATH. Before I did so, running yt-dlp gave the following error:

    WARNING: [youtube] No supported JavaScript runtime could be found. YouTube extraction without a JS runtime has been deprecated, and some formats may be missing. See  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/EJS  for details on installing one. To silence this warning, you can use  --extractor-args "youtube:player_client=default"  
    
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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Put single quotes around the URL.

    ? and & are special characters, and the shell will think you meant something unintended if you dont protect them.

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