Not able to download from youtube, while I can download from soundcloud

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I have created my own locally hosted site to download audio from youtube and soundcloud using youtube-dl. Yesterday I updated my youtube-dl to the latest version and since the update I'm just not able to download content from youtube (BUT I can download audio from soundcloud with no problems at all) using my site. This is the code that is executed to download audio.

exec("C:/Users/myuser/Desktop/yt/bins/youtube-dl.exe --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 \"".$url."\" -o \"C:/Users/myuser/ytmp3tmp/testaudio.%(ext)s\"");

Song will fail to download when this command is executed ON MY PHP FILE:

exec("C:/Users/myuser/Desktop/yt/bins/youtube-dl.exe --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 \"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A4lnRSR-XY\" -o \"C:/Users/myuser/ytmp3tmp/testaudio.%(ext)s\"");

Although, song will download just fine when this command is executed ON MY PHP FILE:

exec("C:/Users/myuser/Desktop/yt/bins/youtube-dl.exe --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 \"https://soundcloud.com/shadowanthem/maroon-5-dont-wanna-know\" -o \"C:/Users/myuser/ytmp3tmp/testaudio.%(ext)s\"");

Long story short: any youtube video will fail to download when the code above is executed, but all soundcloud songs will be downloaded just fine. Both youtube and soundcloud content will be downloaded with no problems when I execute the command in cmd by myself.

I have also tried to use an older version of youtube-dl. It did not work.

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Some logs

This is the var_dump for the exec output when trying to download the youtube video.

array(1) {
[0]=>
string(42) "[youtube] 5A4lnRSR-XY: Downloading webpage"
}

And that's when trying to download the soundcloud song.

array(8) {
[0]=>
string(64) "[soundcloud] shadowanthem/maroon-5-dont-wanna-know: Resolving id"
[1]=>
string(73) "[soundcloud] shadowanthem/maroon-5-dont-wanna-know: Downloading info JSON"
[2]=>
string(45) "[soundcloud] 299911659: Downloading track url"
[3]=>
string(58) "[soundcloud] 299911659: Checking fallback video format URL"
[4]=>
string(66) "[soundcloud] 299911659: Checking http_mp3_128_url video format URL"
[5]=>
string(87) "[download] Destination: C:\Users\myuser\ytmp3tmp\testaudio.mp3"
[6]=>
string(735) "
[download] 0.0% of 3.44MiB at 10.30KiB/s ETA 05:42
[download] 0.1% of 3.44MiB at 30.74KiB/s ETA 01:54
[download] 0.2% of 3.44MiB at 71.74KiB/s ETA 00:49
[download] 0.4% of 3.44MiB at 152.96KiB/s ETA 00:22
[download] 0.9% of 3.44MiB at 162.93KiB/s ETA 00:21
[download] 1.8% of 3.44MiB at 217.44KiB/s ETA 00:15
[download] 3.6% of 3.44MiB at 233.04KiB/s ETA 00:14
[download] 7.2% of 3.44MiB at 342.20KiB/s ETA 00:09
[download] 14.5% of 3.44MiB at 469.32KiB/s ETA 00:06
[download] 29.0% of 3.44MiB at 693.61KiB/s ETA 00:03
[download] 58.0% of 3.44MiB at 894.06KiB/s ETA 00:01
[download] 93.7% of 3.44MiB at 1.09MiB/s ETA 00:00
[download] 100.0% of 3.44MiB at 1.12MiB/s ETA 00:00
[download] 100% of 3.44MiB in 00:03"
[7]=>
string(107) "[ffmpeg] Post-process file C:\Users\myuser\ytmp3tmp\testaudio.mp3 exists, skipping"
}

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[dstftw]

Add --force-ipv4.

[yan12125]

Seems exec does not capture STDERR? You may want to add 2>&1 for error messages.

[ghost]

@dstftw Adding --force-ipv4 did not make a difference.

@yan12125 This is the output:

array(2) {
[0]=>
string(42) "[youtube] 6nkj65NwpKg: Downloading webpage"
[1]=>
string(232) "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)'),))"
}

[yan12125]

Most likely you're another victim of 2017. See #11573 (comment) for solutions.

Feel free to leave comments if it doesn't solve the problem.