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Anybody else getting this error constantly?

    you-get: [error] oops, something went wrong.
    you-get: don't panic, c'est la vie. please try the following steps:
    you-get:   (1) Rule out any network problem.
    you-get:   (2) Make sure you-get is up-to-date.
    you-get:   (3) Check if the issue is already known, on
    you-get:         https://github.com/soimort/you-get/wiki/Known-Bugs
    you-get:         https://github.com/soimort/you-get/issues
    you-get:   (4) Run the command with '--debug' option,
    you-get:       and report this issue with the full output.
Tried with debug flag but didn't really help

    pattern = str(pattern, 'latin1')
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    TypeError: decoding to str: need a bytes-like object, NoneType found
I was curious to see if it can bypass age restriction (though I tried on non-age-restricted video too with the same error).


Same error, not work at all.


Check your Python version.

Try switching to the newest version of Python with something like Pyenv, or even try spinning up a Docker image with something like:

docker run -it -v $(pwd):/mnt python:3.13 bash

...and try using the utility there. Good luck!




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