Hi, does someone have this problem (audio or video "temporarily unavailable")?
All the other ancillary files are downloaded and YT videos are working.
This happened today, and JD is already updated.

I guess they did something to prevent downloading, all forums found about this problem are old (but I never had it till today).

 

Yes, you're right, they're having some server problems; I'm also getting a "Temporarily unavailable" message in jDownloader.

 

Last edited: Feb 3, 2026 at 8:22 PM

I was wondering why nobody asked this question before.

I'm a huge video downloader, including of course YT. JD gets updated pretty fast, but YT is changing rules even faster. Your only option is to use yt-dlp and keep track of their discord/reddit channel. I can give you some "recipes" if you want because it's extremely hard to get the zillion options yt-dlp has.

Edited: I guess half of this problems don't apply for people who only download very few vids far and between

 

Last edited: Feb 3, 2026 at 7:40 PM

I use Open-Video-Downloader which is a gui for yt-dlp.
It automatically updates when you start it.
Recently it stopped working but I got rid of the cookie attached to it and its working great again.
https://github.com/jely2002/youtube-dl-gui

 

I forgot I am using a fork.
https://github.com/StefanLobbenmeier
It has been a while since I set it up so I forgot the reason for using this fork or how I set it up but it works.
Sometimes you have to change the cookie.

 

if I wanted a YT vid I used, ytdown.to