Youtube throwing errors.....

[bigmacca1]

Script started on Wed 28 Jan 2015 16:28:05 GMT
#7#]2;ian@sauron:/Downloads##]1;sauron##8ian@sauron:/Downloads> exit####ls -lart########./youtube-dl --verbose https://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=

=en-GB&v=Zk2OLaGpxWY&gl=GB >> capture##[K##[K##[K##[K##[K##[K##[K##[K##[K##[K##[K
[1] 10849
[2] 10850
[2]+ Done v=Zk2OLaGpxWY
#7#]2;ian@sauron:/Downloads##]1;sauron##8ian@sauron:/Downloads> [debug] System config: []

[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en-GB']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.01.25
[debug] Python version 2.7.8 - Linux-3.16.7-7-default-i686-with-SuSE-13.2-i586
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.3.6, ffprobe 2.3.6
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] watch?hl=en-GB: Requesting header
[redirect] Following redirect to https://www.youtube.com/supported_browsers?next_url=%2F
[download] Downloading playlist: supported_browsers
[youtube:user] supported_browsers: Downloading video ids from 1 to 51

[0;31mERROR:#[0m Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request (caused by HTTPError()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 299, in _request_webpage
return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1571, in urlopen
return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 410, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 523, in http_response
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 448, in error
return self._call_chain(_args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
result = func(_args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 531, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

exit

Script done on Wed 28 Jan 2015 16:28:20 GMT

[dstftw]

You have to escape ampersands or enclose the URL in quotes as follows:
./youtube-dl --verbose "https://www.youtube.com/watch?hlen-GB&v=Zk2OLaGpxWY&gl=GB"

[bigmacca1]

Hi Thanks for that. Never have in the past...just right click-dragged
across and pasted it straight on the end. Didn't know it had changed.

Thanks again!

Ian McKinnon

Regards

Ian McKinnon
Silverdale Sapphires

On 28 January 2015 at 17:35, Sergey M. [email protected] wrote:

Closed #4799 #4799.

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[bigmacca1]

HI
Did it and it worked. When did the format change?

Ian McKinnon

Regards

Ian McKinnon
Silverdale Sapphires

On 28 January 2015 at 18:56, Ian McKinnon [email protected]
wrote:

Hi Thanks for that. Never have in the past...just right click-dragged
across and pasted it straight on the end. Didn't know it had changed.

Thanks again!

Ian McKinnon

Regards

Ian McKinnon
Silverdale Sapphires

On 28 January 2015 at 17:35, Sergey M. [email protected] wrote:

Closed #4799 #4799.

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#4799 (comment).

[phihag]

This is not a working in youtube-dl, but in your shell. I believe this format did change with the addition of background processes with &, probably sometime in the 80es (1989 at the latest).

Most likely, you just had the luck to never have URLs that contain ampersands.

youtube-dl just gets an incomplete URL. We're keeping a list of common mistakes and I've added your URL to that list.