# Youtube image upload is broken

**URL:** <https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/youtube-image-upload-is-broken/8515>\
**Category:** 🛠️ Feature Reqs\
**Tags:** bugs\
**Created:** [February 5, 2025, 1:14pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/youtube-image-upload-is-broken/8515 "2025-02-05T13:14:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![ChrisB](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discuss.roboflow.com/chrisb/32/6574_2.png) [@ChrisB](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/ChrisB)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 1:14pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/youtube-image-upload-is-broken/8515/1 "2025-02-05T13:14:21Z")

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I can’t upload data using the Import YouTube Video field. I’ve tried 5 different relatively short clips ( 30s - 1m ):

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/roboflow1/original/2X/2/2759b2b42e0f28d797a5fa5e8c1b621ca45ae383.png)

This may have been broken for a while: [Error to upload youtube url](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/error-to-upload-youtube-url/7429)

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**Author:** ![joaomarcoscrs-roboflow](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discuss.roboflow.com/joaomarcoscrs-roboflow/32/4996_2.png) [@joaomarcoscrs-roboflow](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/joaomarcoscrs-roboflow)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 5:35pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/youtube-image-upload-is-broken/8515/2 "2025-02-05T17:35:10Z")

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Hey Chris - thanks for flagging. The feature itself is quite unstable, we will evaluate more robust solutions to the matter. In the mean time, I recommend using the other data upload flows to your projects, like CLI or API.

Best,  
João

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**Author:** ![EduardoLawson1](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discuss.roboflow.com/eduardolawson1/32/5767_2.png) [@EduardoLawson1](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/EduardoLawson1)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 10:01pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/youtube-image-upload-is-broken/8515/3 "2025-02-18T22:01:29Z")

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I solved my problem using [yt-dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) to download the videos and uploaded the .mp4 to Roboflow. It was the only way for me 🙂