diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1945b66..9ca6dd6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Just download this repo and rename youtube_stuffs.db.def to youtube_stuffs.db
 - fzf
 - sqlite3
 - sed
-- youtube-dl
+- yt-dlp
 
 ## optional requirements
 - chafa # for image previews
diff --git a/fetch.sh b/fetch.sh
index b7cd255..e2d8e67 100755
--- a/fetch.sh
+++ b/fetch.sh
@@ -5,14 +5,14 @@
 
 # cant do whats below because i need to replace all ' within a subset of 'string' with '' to escape it.
 
-# youtube-dl --get-filename -o "insert into ytlist values('%(title)s','%(channel)s','%(id)s','shorts','');" "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwpvCCyacwS9Us6F1_UUUre1Py9p4ex4J" 2> out2.txt #| sed "s/'/''/g" #| sqlite3 ./youtube_stuffs.db
+# yt-dlp --get-filename -o "insert into ytlist values('%(title)s','%(channel)s','%(id)s','shorts','');" "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwpvCCyacwS9Us6F1_UUUre1Py9p4ex4J" 2> out2.txt #| sed "s/'/''/g" #| sqlite3 ./youtube_stuffs.db
 
 cd "$(dirname "$0")"
 file="./download.txt"
 
 if [ "$1" ]; then
     [ -z "$2" ] && echo playlist not defined. continue? && read -p "continue? (press any key)" 
-    youtube-dl --get-filename -o "%(title)s----%(id)s----%(channel)s" "$1" > "$file" 2> download_err.txt 
+    yt-dlp --get-filename -o "%(title)s----%(id)s----%(channel)s" "$1" > "$file" 2> download_err.txt 
     printf "\n\n"
 
     i=1
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ while :; do
     urlid="$(sqlite3 ./youtube_stuffs.db 'select id from ytlist where rowid='$i';')"
     if [ -z "$(ls -l thumbnails | grep ".$urlid")" ]; then
         printf "$i::$urlid\n"
-        thumbnailurl="$(youtube-dl --get-thumbnail "https://youtube.com/watch?v=$urlid" 2> thumberr.txt)"
+        thumbnailurl="$(yt-dlp --get-thumbnail "https://youtube.com/watch?v=$urlid" 2> thumberr.txt)"
         ext="$(printf "$thumbnailurl" | sed 's/.*\.//g' | sed 's/?.*//')"
         wget "$thumbnailurl" -O "thumbnails/$urlid.$ext"
     fi