diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/youtube-dl/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/youtube-dl/default.nix
index 7ed8f3bfd71b..e497f2a698c7 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/youtube-dl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/youtube-dl/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 { lib, fetchurl, buildPythonPackage
 , zip, ffmpeg, rtmpdump, phantomjs2, atomicparsley, pycryptodome, pandoc
+, fetchpatch
 # Pandoc is required to build the package's man page. Release tarballs contain a
 # formatted man page already, though, it will still be installed. We keep the
 # manpage argument in place in case someone wants to use this derivation to
@@ -15,13 +16,22 @@
 buildPythonPackage rec {
 
   pname = "youtube-dl";
-  version = "2018.08.28";
+  version = "2018.09.01";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://yt-dl.org/downloads/${version}/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "1swdp4czvm0752psbi8a4qw5i9x18s7nhivh7iw92274pmqxq9wi";
+    sha256 = "0h8x8agl4s5cnfzwmshbcg4pxcgg3iyb86w8krs21y2k9d1ng036";
   };
 
+  patches = [
+    # https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/pull/17464
+    (fetchpatch {
+      name = "youtube-js-player-fix.patch";
+      url = "https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/pull/17464/commits/6d7359775ae4eef1d1213aae81e092467a2c675c.patch";
+      sha256 = "12mwfmp7iwlawpx6r4rhz546b3anxrx6zc4nyjs8grbh5vxhj9yg";
+    })
+  ];
+
   nativeBuildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
   buildInputs = [ zip ] ++ lib.optional generateManPage pandoc;
   propagatedBuildInputs = lib.optional hlsEncryptedSupport pycryptodome;