Youtube changed their download url again?

[lx5415]

I am having trouble downloading from Youtube again. Maybe its because they have changed the way videos are accessed. Has anyone else been having trouble downloading? Is this problem being worked on?

[rg3]

It's working fine here.

[rg3]

I haven't received any new reports today and it works fine here, so I'm closing the issue.

[Jamie-Landeg-Jones]

I can confirm that the rtmpdump of encrypted streams is still working too

[JockeTF]

I'm having a trouble downloading as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3fBOYNVdw

WARNING: unable to set language: urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused

[youtube] S3fBOYNVdw: Downloading video webpage

ERROR: unable to download video webpage: urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused

[rg3]

Two issues here.

First, if you get a "Connection refused" error it's like the error a web browser gets when the connection is rejected by the web server. That shouldn't be a problem with youtube-dl, at least normally.

Second, I don't get that same "connection refused" error, but I get a 404 when requesting the video webpage. This could be a problem, but it's not because the video is not available using a normal web browser. If you put that URL in your address bar, you get an error page saying "The URL contained a malformed video ID."

[JockeTF]

As YouTube says, "Sorry about that", I erased too many characters when removing all the subscription stuff from the URL. The correct link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3fBOYNVdwA which is what youtube-dl was launched with. I still have the same problem.

[Jamie-Landeg-Jones]

works for me. Are you sure you have the latest version of youtube-dl?

[JockeTF]

Yes, I use 2010.12.09. It stopped working yesterday.

[JockeTF]

I just tried with the one from December 16. I get the same problem for every video I've tried with that version as well.

[Jamie-Landeg-Jones]

I'm using 2010.12.09 and that video you posted works fine.

Are you able to view the video at the normal youtube web site?

[JockeTF]

Yeap, works fine in all qualities.

[JockeTF]

youtube-dl just started working over here again without me changing anything. Perhaps YouTube is having a problem with their servers around here (I'm in Sweden).

[Jamie-Landeg-Jones]

I'm in the UK and had intermittent server problems with youtube yesterday

glad it's sorted now!