Upgrade/update yt-dlp via pip?

Question

There used to be a top answer with a simple command to update yt-dlp via pip, and I swore it was pip install --upgrade yt-dlp, but maybe it was python3 pip install --upgrade yt-dlp. I cannot test it locally so I have to ask: I am being told there is an error that -u does not exist when my command is typed out~.

We are on termbin via F-Droid.

This error was caused by a syntax error: -upgrade was used instead of --upgrade.

Answer 1

It depends on how you installed it.

If you installed it via pip, use:

pip install --upgrade yt-dlp

otherwise use:

yt-dlp -U 

Answer 2

   yt-dlp -U 

to update if you are using the release binaries

Answer 3

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Installation#with-pip According to this, my command is correct. The error: "ERROR: [youtube] Unable to extract uploader id" is known. New version will be released soon.