Unable to download webpage

[Mahmoud-Mardeni]

I am running youtube-dl from an android application context and can not get it to work. It was working just fine before the last two releases.

I have tried it fro pc and its also working fine. Below you can find the error log.

Thank you for your help.

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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

Add -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with, copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

$ youtube-dl --format best --verbose --dump-json https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypmcr_-bV0o
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--format', u'best', u'--verbose', u'--dump-json', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypmcr_-bV0o']
[debug] Encodings: locale None, fs None, out None, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.10.21.1
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Linux-3.4.0-1548638-armv7l-with-libc
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 2] temporary failure in name resolution.> (caused by URLError(gaierror(2, 'temporary failure in name resolution.'),))
  File "/data/data/com.sprtapk.moslsl/files/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 403, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/data/data/com.sprtapk.moslsl/files/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2001, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/home/shimoda/python-for-android.git/python-build/python_arm/python-ext/python/urllib2.py", line 431, in open
  File "/home/shimoda/python-for-android.git/python-build/python_arm/python-ext/python/urllib2.py", line 449, in _open
  File "/home/shimoda/python-for-android.git/python-build/python_arm/python-ext/python/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
  File "/data/data/com.sprtapk.moslsl/files/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 1036, in https_open
    req, **kwargs)
  File "/home/shimoda/python-for-android.git/python-build/python_arm/python-ext/python/urllib2.py", line 1197, in do_open

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If the purpose of this issue is a site support request please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by yours):

• Single video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc
• Single video: https://youtu.be/BaW_jenozKc
• Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4lCao7KL_QFVb7Iudeipvc2BCavECqzc

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[dstftw]

temporary failure in name resolution

Your DNS does not work.

[Mahmoud-Mardeni]

When I tried using it from Pc which is connected to the same network and uses same DNS it does work fine.

Although it does not work from the android app.

[yan12125]

Does AndroidManifest.xml include proper permissions for accessing the Internet?

[Mahmoud-Mardeni]

Yes it does. and when I use older releases of youtube-dl it work fine.

[yan12125]

when I use older releases of youtube-dl it work fine.

Which version?

[Mahmoud-Mardeni]

2016.07.13