yt-dlp --skip-download --write-sub --write-auto-sub --sub-lang en --sub-format json2 "[1]"

[TedTalk] Extracting URL: [1]

[TedTalk] luvvie_ajayi_jones_how_to_be_a_professional_troublemaker: Downloading webpage

ERROR: the JSON object must be str, bytes or bytearray, not NoneType

exit 1

[1] - full URL is: https://www.ted.com/talks/luvvie_ajayi_jones_how_to_be_a_pro...

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  yt-dlp --update-to master