ExtractorError: YouTube said: Invalid parameters.

[kenorb]

$ youtube-dl -vcti --write-description --write-info-json --all-subs --write-thumbnail -R5 http://www.youtube.com/danielofdoriaa
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-vcti', '-R5', '--write-description', '--write-info-json', '--all-subs', '--write-thumbnail', '-vcti', '--write-description', '--write-info-json', '--all-subs', '--write-thumbnail', '-R5', 'http://www.youtube.com/danielofdoriaa']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.07.17.1
[debug] Python version 2.7.4 - Linux-3.8.0-26-generic-i686-with-Ubuntu-13.04-raring
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
WARNING: unable to set language: <urlopen error [Errno 8] _ssl.c:504: EOF occurred in violation of protocol>
[youtube] danielofdoriaa: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] danielofdoriaa: Downloading video info webpage
ERROR: YouTube said: Invalid parameters.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 312, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 96, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 460, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError(u'YouTube said: %s' % video_info['reason'][0], expected=True)
ExtractorError: YouTube said: Invalid parameters.

Related: Issue #751

[phihag]

Yes, that's the wrong extractor - the URL refers to a user profile, but we're using the video extractor. In the meantime, try youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/user/danielofdoriaa.

[kenorb]

Thanks, similar problem here: Issue #1070

[jaimeMF]

The problem is that YoutubeIE recognize urls like http://youtube.com/BaW_jenozKc as videos, which returns a 404 error, so I think they should be interpreted as user and not videos.

[jaimeMF]

Actually it should just match http://youtu.be/BaW_jenozKc, which is a valid url.

[jaimeMF]

Thanks for the report, it's fixed now. http://www.youtube.com/danielofdoriaa is now interpreted as a user url instead of video.