2 description: Report a bug unrelated to any particular site or extractor
10 Carefully read and work through this check list in order to prevent the most common mistakes and misuse of yt-dlp:
12 - label: I'm reporting a bug unrelated to a specific site
14 - label: I've verified that I'm running yt-dlp version **2022.07.18** ([update instructions](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#update)) or later (specify commit)
16 - label: I've checked that all provided URLs are playable in a browser with the same IP and same login details
18 - label: I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are [properly quoted or escaped](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#video-url-contains-an-ampersand-and-im-getting-some-strange-output-1-2839-or-v-is-not-recognized-as-an-internal-or-external-command)
20 - label: I've searched the [bugtracker](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q=) for similar issues **including closed ones**. DO NOT post duplicates
22 - label: I've read the [guidelines for opening an issue](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#opening-an-issue)
27 label: Provide a description that is worded well enough to be understood
28 description: See [is-the-description-of-the-issue-itself-sufficient](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#is-the-description-of-the-issue-itself-sufficient)
29 placeholder: Provide any additional information, any suggested solutions, and as much context and examples as possible
35 label: Provide verbose output that clearly demonstrates the problem
37 - label: Run **your** yt-dlp command with **-vU** flag added (`yt-dlp -vU <your command line>`)
39 - label: Copy the WHOLE output (starting with `[debug] Command-line config`) and insert it below
44 label: Complete Verbose Output
46 It should start like this:
48 [debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', 'test:youtube']
49 [debug] Portable config "yt-dlp.conf": ['-i']
50 [debug] Encodings: locale cp65001, fs utf-8, pref cp65001, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
51 [debug] yt-dlp version 2022.07.18 [9d339c4] (win32_exe)
52 [debug] Python 3.8.10 (CPython 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.22000-SP0
53 [debug] Checking exe version: ffmpeg -bsfs
54 [debug] Checking exe version: ffprobe -bsfs
55 [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-106550-g072101bd52-20220410 (fdk,setts), ffprobe N-106624-g391ce570c8-20220415, phantomjs 2.1.1
56 [debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.15.0, brotli-1.0.9, certifi-2022.06.15, mutagen-1.45.1, sqlite3-2.6.0, websockets-10.3
58 [debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest
59 Latest version: 2022.07.18, Current version: 2022.07.18
60 yt-dlp is up to date (2022.07.18)