Unable to use youtube-dl

[Velzeee]

Using these videos seperately:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUOuHpsY8N4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1ZzCDim2wU

I receive this error and thus am unable to use the program:

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1ZzCDim2wU']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.08.10
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-10-10.0.10586
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] R1ZzCDim2wU: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [WinError 10013] An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions> (caused by URLError(OSError(10013, 'An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions', None, 10013, None),))
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp137uvqjd\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 394, in _request_webpage
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp137uvqjd\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1994, in urlopen
File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 464, in open
File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 482, in _open
File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 442, in _call_chain
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp137uvqjd\build\youtube_dl\utils.py", line 1003, in https_open
File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 1185, in do_open

[stelariusinfinitek]

Just saw this. Are you using the latest version? Because I youtube-dl-ed your first video and it worked without problems.

[Velzeee]

Yep, I'm using the latest(2016.08.10).

[stelariusinfinitek]

I'm sorry, it was written there. It could be a problem with Windows 10. I'm using Linux (Arch) and it's working fine.

[Velzeee]

Dang, that stinks.

[stelariusinfinitek]

I hope I didn't say something wrong. I'm not a dev but I'm trying to help (sometimes I'm a bit stupid). I know there is bash for Windows after the Anniversary Update. Did you try it with youtube-dl?

[Velzeee]

No worries, dude.I'm just upset because I have been trying for the past few days to find a non-sketchy way of downloading YT videos, and this one looked the most promising but, since I haven't got it to work, idk what I'm going to do. And it's kind of important too. I haven't updated to the anniversary update(I don't believe I have anyway), but I'll check for updates.

[stelariusinfinitek]

If you are in a hurry, use this : https://www.4kdownload.com/download .I know the devs will fix the problem but if you really can't wait, use an alternative for the moment.

[Velzeee]

Idk about that one...looks a bit sketchy..

[stelariusinfinitek]

It's fine, I used it for a long time before installing Linux. Trust me. If you don't want to try the alternative, wait for the devs to give you a solution.

[phihag]

This is almost certainly a problem with your firewall (or an antivirus/firewall product). Have you allowed youtube-dl to contact arbitrary sites, at least DNS, HTTP and HTTPS? youtube-dl does not need any server rights, but does need to download websites and videos.

McAfee seems to be one of the primary culprits, i.e. in http://superuser.com/questions/635498/socket-error-errno-10013-port-forbidden-access-permissions .

[JoFu2k191]

I get this error too, it is a firewall issue.

trying to run -F on any youtube link causes:

<urlopen error [WinError 10013] An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions> (caused by URLError(OSError(10013, 'An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions', None, 10013, None),))

A generic error message meaning some process was unable to open a socket.

My Windows 10 Home Firewall is customized as it should be: Outbound is Blocked for ANY
exceptions are :

default rules by Microsoft
Core Network - Dynamic Host Configuration-Protokoll (DHCP) Outbound
Core Network - DNS (UDP) Outbound

custom rules
my game
my browser
cmd.exe (I added this for youtube-dl, but thats not all I need - see the error)

adding youtube-dl to my custom rules does not help
adding pyhton.exe or pythonw.ex does not help

Any idea? Because the next thing I am going to is running tools from the Sysinternals suite and maybe even wireshark. I have to admit I was out of duty for 3 years so I may be just blind here.

besides, amazing tool I have beed using for long time. I love your design ;)

EDIT: Of course, if I configure my firewall to allow outbounds by default youtube-dl works as intended.

[JoFu2k191]

Update:

once I add an outbound rule to allow any programm to connect to remote port 443 - the issue is gone.

outbound rule is:
allow any-protocol for youtube-dl.exe to any-adress-port

a default way to configure firewall settings - and it should work!

however, the following is required here
allow any program to any-address:443

because nor, python.exe or any other .exe makes the connection? afaik?
in addition the fix is a non-practicle rule? I cant configure it this way?

Can you comment on this? Because either this is python or youtube-dl fault?
Or microsoft does not want you to open sockets the way your are doing it?
Not sure if it is a bug?

[JoFu2k191]

Ok, I fixed it.

In my scenario youtube-dl wont work with windows firewall when an enviroment variable
is used to define the executable path for the firewall rule.

%userprofile%\folder\youtube-dl.exe - DOES NOT WORK!

C:\Users\Username\folder\youtube-dl.exe WORKS!

%Systemdrive% works for other executables I am using
%Systemroot% works for default rules defined by microsoft, like DNS/DHCP

Python?

[yanakey]

@JoFu2k191 Thanks! Replacing %userprofile% with real path works!