diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/yt-dlp/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/yt-dlp/default.nix
index 09771083f1c4..d9331a8c28af 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/yt-dlp/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/yt-dlp/default.nix
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 , ffmpegSupport ? true
 , rtmpSupport ? true
 , withAlias ? false # Provides bin/youtube-dl for backcompat
+, update-python-libraries
 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
@@ -53,6 +54,8 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     ln -s "$out/bin/yt-dlp" "$out/bin/youtube-dl"
   '';
 
+  passthru.updateScript = [ update-python-libraries (toString ./.) ];
+
   meta = with lib; {
     homepage = "https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/";
     description = "Command-line tool to download videos from YouTube.com and other sites (youtube-dl fork)";