Windows-Youtube-SSL Error.

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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 -v <your command line>
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: ['-f', 'bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best', '-o', 'Z:\\YT\\%(title)s.%(ext)s', '--me
rge-output-format', 'mp4']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://youtu.be/nRB781duYTE']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.01.05
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.2.2, ffprobe 3.2.2
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] nRB781duYTE: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:600)> (caused by URLError(SSLError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:600)'),))
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp023qj2d_\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 406, i
n _request_webpage
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp023qj2d_\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2001, 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\tmp023qj2d_\build\youtube_dl\utils.py", line 1041, in https_op
en
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 1185, in do_open
<end of log>

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### Description of your *issue*, suggested solution and other information
Various youtube links fail to download with a SSL certificate failure using the current version of youtube-dl.  I saw other bug reports which were closed which used the "--no-check-certificate" option.  Using that option does allow the download of the video.  Youtube-dl did work two versions ago. 

I am not a programmer, but I don't have the directories listed above on the C: drive.

Hope you can help me.  Thank you.

[dstftw]

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