Package: yt-dlp Version: 2026.07.04-1 Severity: normal Below are the results of some attempts to use the --impersonate option.
Ideally this would just work, but failing that it should handle the error without a backtrace. $ yt-dlp --list-impersonate-targets [info] Available impersonate targets Client OS Source -------------------------------------------- Tor - curl_cffi>=0.11 (unavailable) Edge - curl_cffi (unavailable) Firefox - curl_cffi>=0.10 (unavailable) Safari - curl_cffi (unavailable) Chrome - curl_cffi (unavailable) $ yt-dlp https://vimeo.com/235272168 --impersonate="" Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yt-dlp", line 8, in <module> sys.exit(main()) ~~~~^^ File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/yt_dlp/__init__.py", line 1080, in main _exit(*variadic(_real_main(argv))) ~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/yt_dlp/__init__.py", line 982, in _real_main with YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl: ~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 770, in __init__ raise YoutubeDLError( ...<2 lines>... f'You may be missing dependencies required to support this target.') yt_dlp.utils.YoutubeDLError: Impersonate target "" is not available. Use --list-impersonate-targets to see available targets. You may be missing dependencies required to support this target. $ yt-dlp https://vimeo.com/235272168 --impersonate chrome Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yt-dlp", line 8, in <module> sys.exit(main()) ~~~~^^ File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/yt_dlp/__init__.py", line 1080, in main _exit(*variadic(_real_main(argv))) ~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/yt_dlp/__init__.py", line 982, in _real_main with YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl: ~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 770, in __init__ raise YoutubeDLError( ...<2 lines>... f'You may be missing dependencies required to support this target.') yt_dlp.utils.YoutubeDLError: Impersonate target "chrome" is not available. Use --list-impersonate-targets to see available targets. You may be missing dependencies required to support this target. -- System Information: Debian Release: forky/sid Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 7.1.3+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: unable to detect Versions of packages yt-dlp depends on: ii python3 3.14.6-1 ii python3-certifi 2026.6.17+ds-1 ii python3-mutagen 1.47.0-2 ii python3-pycryptodome 3.20.0+dfsg-3 ii python3-requests 2.32.5+dfsg-2 ii python3-urllib3 2.7.0-2 ii python3-websockets 16.0-1 Versions of packages yt-dlp recommends: ii ca-certificates 20260601 ii curl 8.21.0-2 ii ffmpeg 7:8.1.2-2+b1 ii wget 1.25.0-2 Versions of packages yt-dlp suggests: pn deno | nodejs | quickjs <none> pn libfribidi-bin | bidiv <none> -- no debconf information
