Downloading songs as mp3

Fetching mp3 from youtube video on Ubuntu Linux

the selected tool is 'youtube-dl'

from the terminal prompt write:

$pip install youtube-dl

but then you get this error (because we are March 2023 and things are broken)

ERROR: Unable to extract uploader id; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

for the long version of this error:

ERROR: Unable to extract uploader id; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

    'uploader_id': self._search_regex(r'/(?:channel|user)/([^/?&#]+)', owner_profile_url, 'uploader id') if owner_profile_url else None,

  File "/home/_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1012, in _search_regex

    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)

youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract uploader id; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

To fix this error you will have to type this:

$ pip uninstall youtube-dl

then type this:

$pip install git+https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl.git@master#egg=youtube_dl

but that means you need to install git

$ apt install git 

will do

while you're installing new package don't forget to get ffmpeg as well

$ apt install ffmpeg

Now you're ready to get the song you want