Help Using "youtube-dl"

**nujinini** · 05-05-2011

Hello,

I only found out about youtube-dl yesterday but when I tried in my ubuntu, this is the output:

Code:

jun@jun-laptop:~$ youtube-dl -b http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-5RJTf0-Jk
Retrieving video webpage... done.
Extracting URL "t" parameter... failed.
Error: unable to extract URL "t" parameter.
Try again several times. It may be a temporary problem.
Other typical problems:

* Video no longer exists.
* Video requires age confirmation but you did not provide an account.
* You provided the account data, but it is not valid.
* The connection was cut suddenly for some reason.
* YouTube changed their system, and the program no longer works.

Try to confirm you are able to view the video using a web browser.
Use the same video URL and account information, if needed, with this program.
When using a proxy, make sure http_proxy has http://host:port format.
Try again several times and contact me if the problem persists.


jun@jun-laptop:~$

FWIW, the video still exists, does not need age confirmation, the connection is good. So I am left with ....I provided an invalid account data or YouTube has changed their system.

Any thoughts please? Thank you!

EDIT:

SL6 output:

Code:

[jun@localhost ~]$ youtube-dl -b http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-5RJTf0-Jk
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Extracting video information
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Format 22 not available
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Extracting video information
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Format 35 not available
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Extracting video information
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Format 18 not available
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Extracting video information
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Format 5 not available
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Extracting video information
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Format 17 not available
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Extracting video information
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Format 13 not available
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Extracting video information
ERROR: no known formats available for video
[jun@localhost ~]$

**rokytnji** · 05-05-2011

Well. Can't help with youtube-dl as I don't use it. I use cclive instead.

**nujinini** · 05-06-2011

Thanks rokytnji!

I installed clive but it's giving me an error report w/c I don't understand

Code:

jun@jun-laptop:~$ sudo clive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz223HRovno
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/clive/modules.py:114: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
  import md5
clive 1.0.2 20081014  [Linux]
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/clive/cache.py:183: DeprecationWarning: BaseException.message has been deprecated as of Python 2.6
  if 'table exists already' in err.message:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz223HRovno&fmt=18                       114.3KB
error: extraction url (&t) not found
error: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/clive", line 29, in <module>
    Clive().main()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/clive/main.py", line 49, in main
    Nomad().run(self._say)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/clive/nomad.py", line 96, in run
    self._check_raw_urls(raw_urls)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/clive/nomad.py", line 261, in _check_raw_urls
    self._show_queue(raw_urls)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/clive/nomad.py", line 402, in _show_queue
    Progress(None)._byteshuman(total_bytes),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/clive/progress.py", line 92, in _byteshuman
    i = int(math.floor(math.log(bytes,1024)))
ValueError: math domain error

jun@jun-laptop:~$ clive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz223HRovno
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/clive/modules.py:114: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
  import md5
clive 1.0.2 20081014  [Linux]
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/clive/cache.py:183: DeprecationWarning: BaseException.message has been deprecated as of Python 2.6
  if 'table exists already' in err.message:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz223HRovno&fmt=18                       114.8KB
error: extraction url (&t) not found
error: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/clive", line 29, in <module>
    Clive().main()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/clive/main.py", line 49, in main
    Nomad().run(self._say)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/clive/nomad.py", line 96, in run
    self._check_raw_urls(raw_urls)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/clive/nomad.py", line 261, in _check_raw_urls
    self._show_queue(raw_urls)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/clive/nomad.py", line 402, in _show_queue
    Progress(None)._byteshuman(total_bytes),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/clive/progress.py", line 92, in _byteshuman
    i = int(mat

h.floor(math.log(bytes,1024)))
ValueError: math domain error

jun@jun-laptop:~$

**reed9** · 05-06-2011

I've never used a youtube downloader, but I checked out youtube-dl and it worked for me using

Code:

youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-5RJTf0-Jk

The version in the Arch repos doesn't list a -b flag, so I suspect you're using an older version and the last reason listed "YouTube changed their system, and the program no longer works.", is probably the issue.

What is the output of

Code:

youtube-dl -v

You should be able to update to the latest version with

Code:

sudo youtube-dl -U

**nujinini** · 05-06-2011

Hello reed9,

Code:

jun@jun-laptop:~$ youtube-dl -v
2008.03.22
jun@jun-laptop:~$ sudo youtube-dl -U
[sudo] password for jun: 
Usage: youtube-dl [options] video_url

youtube-dl: error: no such option: -U
jun@jun-laptop:~

$

I checked the manual and in my version there is no "-U" option fyi.

**reed9** · 05-06-2011

I guess the older version doesn't have that option. Which version of Ubuntu is this? From the date on youtube-dl, I'd say Hardy?

Looks like the updated version needs at least Python 2.5, Hardy is 2.4. Without updating to a more recent Ubuntu version, I think you're out of luck there.

Presumably your clive issues are related to the same. Might be time to consider an upgrade?

**rokytnji** · 05-06-2011

Your command nuj differs from mine. Mine is cclive. Not clive. Not sure why either.

Edit: I run it as user also. No need for su,sudo,sux either to run it for me. I run Debian Testing repos though with Liqourix Sid repos thrown in. So the python reed9 is probably
relevant. your issue. I am currently backing up some files in AntiX 8.5 and am in Puppy 5.2. So I can't post python version I have.

Going to be doing a pendrive install of AntiX 11 over writing my AntiX 8.5 install on this IBM A22m 256 mb laptop (hence the backups). Found that my old PLOP boot manager floppy and AntiX 11 pendrive work well together.

I've been running 8.5 as a rolling release. But the new 11 has a newer kernel and tools that were not included in 8.5. Like a inxi gtk gui tool and qmmp instead of xmms for music and wheezy based with latest libs. So going for reinstall and just re insert my backups.

**reed9** · 05-06-2011

Originally Posted by rokytnji

Your command nuj differs from mine. Mine is cclive. Not clive. Not sure why either.

Different apps? Arch has a clive package and a cclive package, with links to different but similar looking websites.

**nujinini** · 05-06-2011

Originally Posted by reed9

I guess the older version doesn't have that option. Which version of Ubuntu is this? From the date on youtube-dl, I'd say Hardy?

Looks like the updated version needs at least Python 2.5, Hardy is 2.4. Without updating to a more recent Ubuntu version, I think you're out of luck there.

Presumably your clive issues are related to the same. Might be time to consider an upgrade?

I'm using a Jaunty.

Code:

jun@jun-laptop:~$ uname -a
Linux jun-laptop 2.6.28-19-generic #66-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 17:39:04 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
jun@jun-laptop:~$

Code:

root@jun-laptop:/home/jun# python
Python 2.6.2 (release26-maint, Apr 19 2009, 01:56:41) 
[GCC 4.3.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

I tried to use youtube-dl in SL6 oo but got an error report FWIW.

Code:

[jun@localhost ~]$ youtube-dl -b http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-5RJTf0-Jk
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Extracting video information
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Format 22 not available
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Extracting video information
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Format 35 not available
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Extracting video information
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Format 18 not available
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Extracting video information
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Format 5 not available
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Extracting video information
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Format 17 not available
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Extracting video information
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Format 13 not available
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 2-5RJTf0-Jk: Extracting video information
ERROR: no known formats available for video
[jun@localhost ~]$

**nujinini** · 05-06-2011

Originally Posted by rokytnji

Your command nuj differs from mine. Mine is cclive. Not clive. Not sure why either.

Edit: I run it as user also. No need for su,sudo,sux either to run it for me. I run Debian Testing repos though with Liqourix Sid repos thrown in. So the python reed9 is probably
relevant. your issue. I am currently backing up some files in AntiX 8.5 and am in Puppy 5.2. So I can't post python version I have.

Going to be doing a pendrive install of AntiX 11 over writing my AntiX 8.5 install on this IBM A22m 256 mb laptop (hence the backups). Found that my old PLOP boot manager floppy and AntiX 11 pendrive work well together.

I've been running 8.5 as a rolling release. But the new 11 has a newer kernel and tools that were not included in 8.5. Like a inxi gtk gui tool and qmmp instead of xmms for music and wheezy based with latest libs. So going for reinstall and just re insert my backups.

Thanks rok,

I tried to get cclive too but:

Code:

jun@jun-laptop:~$ cclive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PadVnIXBSow
bash: cclive: command not found
jun@jun-laptop:~$ sudo aptitude install cclive
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information      
Initializing package states... Done
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "cclive"
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "cclive"
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information      
Initializing package states... Done

jun@jun-laptop:~$

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