Ubuntu 20.04 ClipGrab hangs when loading information about the video

I'm having issues with ClipGrab getting stuck on "Please wait while ClipGrab is loading information about the video ..." every time I try to download a video. I installed clipgrab from source and I also tried this solution to use the .AppImage instead. It doesn't work either way. I'm not sure what's causing the problem here. Is it something related to youtube-dl? Would appreciate any troubleshooting tips/help with this, thank you.

Solution 1:

Usually the youtube-dl on Ubuntu derivates are not updated as often as they should.

I've written another (simpler) GUI for youtube-dl, that uses the latest youtube-dl available:

In case you are interested, look here

Else you could uninstall youtube-dl with apt and install the actual one using this script