Can't install yt-dlp because of Python problem

[Duarte475]

brew gist-logs <formula> link OR brew config AND brew doctor output

duarte@MacBook-Pro-de-Duarte ~ % brew gist-logs [email protected]
https://gist.github.com/Duarte475/b698d765a7afb06faed754ad2eccb195

duarte@MacBook-Pro-de-Duarte ~ % brew gist-logs yt-dlp 
Error: No logs.

duarte@MacBook-Pro-de-Duarte ~ % brew doctor
Your system is ready to brew.

Verification

• My brew doctor output says Your system is ready to brew. and am still able to reproduce my issue.
• I ran brew update and am still able to reproduce my issue.
• I have resolved all warnings from brew doctor and that did not fix my problem.
• I searched for recent similar issues at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues?q=is%3Aissue and found no duplicates.

What were you trying to do (and why)?

I'm trying to install and run yt-dlp correctly

What happened (include all command output)?

duarte@MacBook-Pro-de-Duarte ~ % yt-dlp --version
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/homebrew/bin/yt-dlp", line 5, in <module>
    from yt_dlp import main
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/yt-dlp/2025.1.26/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/yt_dlp/__init__.py", line 17, in <module>
    from .cookies import SUPPORTED_BROWSERS, SUPPORTED_KEYRINGS, CookieLoadError
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/yt-dlp/2025.1.26/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/yt_dlp/cookies.py", line 23, in <module>
    from .aes import (
    ...<3 lines>...
    )
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/yt-dlp/2025.1.26/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/yt_dlp/aes.py", line 5, in <module>
    from .dependencies import Cryptodome
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/yt-dlp/2025.1.26/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/yt_dlp/dependencies/__init__.py", line 65, in <module>
    import requests
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/yt-dlp/2025.1.26/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/requests/__init__.py", line 164, in <module>
    from .api import delete, get, head, options, patch, post, put, request
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/yt-dlp/2025.1.26/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/requests/api.py", line 11, in <module>
    from . import sessions
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/yt-dlp/2025.1.26/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 15, in <module>
    from .adapters import HTTPAdapter
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/yt-dlp/2025.1.26/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 81, in <module>
    _preloaded_ssl_context.load_verify_locations(
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
        extract_zipped_paths(DEFAULT_CA_BUNDLE_PATH)
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    )
    ^
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

What did you expect to happen?

I wanted yt-dlp to run correctly. It was supposed to output something like

duarte@MacBook-Pro-de-Duarte ~ % yt-dlp --version
2025.01.26

Step-by-step reproduction instructions (by running brew commands)

brew install yt-dlp
yt-dlp --version

[cho-m]

Can't reproduce.

❯ brew install yt-dlp
==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/yt-dlp/manifests/2025.1.26
...

❯ yt-dlp --version
2025.01.26

---

Most common reason for this type of failure is if you incorrectly deleted some etc files like accidentally running rm as mentioned in #177425

Particularly, never delete ca-certificates/openssl@* files unless you are confident it is unused, i.e. you no longer have formula installed.

e.g. to see a similar error:

❯ rm /opt/homebrew/etc/ca-certificates/cert.pem

❯ yt-dlp --version 2>&1 | tail -5
        extract_zipped_paths(DEFAULT_CA_BUNDLE_PATH)
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    )
    ^
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

You are going to have to check your setup to see what is broken.

Without knowing anything else, at best can try brew reinstall ca-certificates certifi to try to restore any files you may have removed, e.g. from above state

❯ brew reinstall ca-certificates certifi
==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/ca-certificates/manifests/2024-12-31
...

❯ yt-dlp --version
2025.01.26

[Duarte475]

Thank you very much for your help
I tried brew reinstall ca-certificates certifi and it worked 🥳
For some reason I had in my head that it was some kind of Python related issue.