SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\x92' in file /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl on line 3

[cyberjacob]

[~] # python2.7 /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl 
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl", line 2
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\x92' in file /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl on line 3, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details

And yes, I read the FAQ

[~] # python2.7 --version
Python 2.7.3

[phihag]

That's indeed curious. How did you install youtube-dl? I cannot reproduce this problem:

# wget https://yt-dl.org/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
# python2.7  /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl 
Usage: youtube-dl [options] url [url...]

youtube-dl: error: you must provide at least one URL

[cyberjacob]

I used

# wget http://youtube-dl.org/downloads/2013.07.25.1/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

to download it

[phihag]

It looks like something went awry with the download. What do you get when you type

md5sum /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

, and does the problem persist if you download the file again?

[cyberjacob]

# md5sum /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
81546e85d33f28bd80e491e6667e227a  /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

I've downloaded twice, and the issue still percists.
Also, if it helps

# uname -a
Linux SNode4 2.6.33.2 #1 Tue Jun 4 12:13:48 CST 2013 armv5tel unknown

[phihag]

That's not the correct md5sum, can you send me the donwloaded file via email or upload it somewhere?

In any case, someone (say, your ISP) may be injecting random data. If you download the file via https (i.e.

# wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/2013.07.25.1/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

do you get a different md5sum?

[KnappeGEIL]

Hi,

did you by any chance try to change the path of your python interpreter using vim? I did this and I believe because of bad encoding it messed up the script. I then did those changes on a windows machine using notepad++ and everything worked all right.

Sorry for digging up the thread but maybe someone is having the problem and this might be a solution.

Cheers

[reoxb]

I remove youtube-dl and put all this.

In my case: sudo apt-get remove youtube-dl

#wget https://yt-dl.org/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
#python2.7 /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg_F6Ppg7ZkHQL0oQEdDG4ST5FK6KCoVt

for example. and it works for me.