diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 195c66c..f60e9e4 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ FROM python:3.11.3-slim-bullseye AS builder
 ARG TARGETPLATFORM
 
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-    build-essential gcc libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev libssl-dev
+    build-essential gcc libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev libssl-dev git
 
 # install requirements
 COPY ./tubearchivist/requirements.txt /requirements.txt
diff --git a/tubearchivist/home/src/download/queue.py b/tubearchivist/home/src/download/queue.py
index 0f92bd4..3c733ca 100644
--- a/tubearchivist/home/src/download/queue.py
+++ b/tubearchivist/home/src/download/queue.py
@@ -228,6 +228,11 @@ class PendingList(PendingIndex):
         """add all videos of playlist to list"""
         playlist = YoutubePlaylist(url)
         playlist.build_json()
+        if not playlist.json_data:
+            message = f"{playlist.youtube_id}: failed to extract metadata"
+            print(message)
+            raise ValueError(message)
+
         video_results = playlist.json_data.get("playlist_entries")
         youtube_ids = [i["youtube_id"] for i in video_results]
         for video_id in youtube_ids:
diff --git a/tubearchivist/home/src/download/subscriptions.py b/tubearchivist/home/src/download/subscriptions.py
index fee3fb6..c6d85a9 100644
--- a/tubearchivist/home/src/download/subscriptions.py
+++ b/tubearchivist/home/src/download/subscriptions.py
@@ -187,6 +187,11 @@ class PlaylistSubscription:
             playlist_h = YoutubePlaylist(playlist_id)
             playlist_h.all_youtube_ids = all_youtube_ids
             playlist_h.build_json()
+            if not playlist_h.json_data:
+                message = f"{playlist_h.youtube_id}: failed to extract data"
+                print(message)
+                raise ValueError(message)
+
             playlist_h.json_data["playlist_subscribed"] = subscribed
             playlist_h.upload_to_es()
             playlist_h.add_vids_to_playlist()
diff --git a/tubearchivist/requirements.txt b/tubearchivist/requirements.txt
index 08e4e86..b513611 100644
--- a/tubearchivist/requirements.txt
+++ b/tubearchivist/requirements.txt
@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ requests==2.31.0
 ryd-client==0.0.6
 uWSGI==2.0.22
 whitenoise==6.5.0
-yt_dlp==2023.9.24
+yt-dlp @ git+https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp@cc8d8441524ec3442d7c0d3f8f33f15b66aa06f3
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