There's a closed pull request on the void-packages repository youtube-dl: add required dependency: phantomjs https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/12244 Description: Some links require `phantomjs` or it will error out with: ``` [ytdl_hook] ERROR: PhantomJS executable not found in PATH, download it from http://phantomjs.org [ytdl_hook] youtube-dl failed: unexpected error ocurred Failed to recognize file format. ```