Mac youtube-dl installed, still getting --save-video error

[tinymoss]

Hi! Running commit b0b8158, I'm getting an error with the option to download all videos. I'm familiar with youtube-dl and ffmpeg and use both all the time, but I keep getting an error telling me the module is not found. If someone has any insight on how I can fix this it would be greatly appreciated.

This is a copy of what I get:

me:bbolli-tumblr-utils-b0b8158 me$ python tumblr_backup.py -p 2018 --save-video blogname
Usage: tumblr_backup.py [options] blog-name ...

tumblr_backup.py: error: --save-video: module 'youtube_dl' is not installed
me:bbolli-tumblr-utils-b0b8158 me$ youtube-dl --version
2019.02.18

[cebtenzzre]

Dupe of #89. The program and the module are not the same thing. Skip to the end because most of the suggested commands to install the module are either wrong or incomplete.

@bbolli Still waiting for your review of PR #185. Once that's merged, people will stop creating issues about this :)

[tinymoss]

Thank you so much! I noticed there was other people having this issue but those fixes seemed to be windows specific, but the last command you mention was applicable to me.

However, I use homebrew to install/update youtube-dl, I'm weary of installing a dupe via pip because like I said I do use youtube-dl semi regularly, dose that command only affect the directory I ran it in? Or should I run something to clean up this module after I'm done to avoid any issues with youtube-dl down the line?

[cebtenzzre]

For tumblr-utils you need the python2 version of youtube-dl, whereas the python3 version of youtube-dl is usually what is distributed. The documentation PR should probably be updated to explain that more correctly.
What I recommend is to keep the homebrew installation of youtube-dl, and use install --user <package> with pip to install the python2 version to your /home directory. That way both versions are available, but the homebrew version has a higher priority. If head -1 $(which youtube-dl) gives different output after installing youtube-dl from pip, you may want to try reordering your PATH, or simply uninstalling the homebrew version.