Thank you for opening this issue!

🔔 @vimtor @pernielsentikaer @darmiel @ridemountainpig @remorses @LitoMore you might want to have a look.

I cannot reproduce the error.

Can you update the extension and retry?

We should probably add better error handling because this probably comes from the YT API. Maybe adding actions to the toast so users can copy/paste the API error it gave instead of showing this generic message.

@LitoMore No extension update found. Also tried uninstall and reinstall extension and still the same.
By the way I'm using the executables installed with Nix not Homebrew (I updated the paths in extension settings), but yt-dlp works properly in terminal so it's probably not the executable's problem.
Not familiar with Raycast extension but is there any log I can find to try to figure out what the problem may be?

@LitoMore I think the problem here is that /opt/homebrew/bin/yt-dlp is hardcoded here instead of following the "yt-dlp Path" set in extension settings. To test, I symlinked the executables installed by Nix into /opt/homebrew/bin and then it can parse the URL.

PS. Now I'm hit with another error.

I tried installing yt-dlp from Homebrew and everything works fine, so I guess I'll probably open another issue for Nix compatibility, but that's beyond this one.

I tried installing yt-dlp successfully but the Raycast extension, but the extension does not see the installed CLI tool.

@txrunn You should update the path from the extension preference.

I just checked the code, it looks the path has been hardcoded in the source. I've updated my PR #16595 to fix this issue.

For users who are using a VPN.

I found the network activity of "*YouTube.com" processed by MitM of my VPN. So it depends on you wether or not delete it in Hostname of your config