Site request, or user error: googlevideo.com

[keybounce]

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This is either user error, or else a direct download from googlevideo.com fails to actually have support.

keybounceMBP:Downloads michael$ youtube-dl -v -F 'https://r3---sn-a5m7lnlz.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?requiressl=yes&id=
afb7a615d11413a7&itag=22&source=webdrive&ttl=transient&app=explorer&ip=64.201.108.45&ipbits=0&expire=1484209712&sparams=exp
ire,id,ip,ipbits,itag,mm,mn,ms,mv,nh,pl,requiressl,source,ttl&signature=1145579F2F6BD3BB4219D8964B3A45E0BA19C48B.709BF38EB5
FF608E7014B97FBD25B30EF836C7FE&key=cms1&pl=19&lemprms=NjQuMjAxLjEwOC40NQ&uaprm=TW96aWxsYS81LjAgKE1hY2ludG9zaDsgSW50ZWwgTWFj
IE9TIFggMTAuOTsgcnY6NDUuMCkgR2Vja28vMjAxMDAxMDEgRmlyZWZveC80NS4w&cms_redirect=yes&mm=31&mn=sn-a5m7lnlz&ms=au&mt=1484199659&
mv=m&nh=IgpwcjAxLmxheDAyKgkxMjcuMC4wLjE'
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: [u'-o', u'%(title)s.%(ext)s', u'-f', u'\nbest[ext=mp4][height>431][height<=480]/\nbest[ext=mp4][height>431][height<=576]/\nbestvideo[ext=mp4][height=480]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/\nbest[ext=mp4][height>340][height<=431]/\nbestvideo[ext=mp4][height>360][height<=576]+bestaudio/\nbest[height>340][height<=576]/\nbestvideo[height>360][height<=576]+bestaudio/\nbestvideo[height=360]+bestaudio/\nbest[ext=mp4][height>=280][height<=360]/\nbest[height<=576]/\nworst', u'--write-sub', u'--write-auto-sub', u'--sub-lang', u'en,enUS', u'--sub-format', u'srt/ass/best', u'--embed-subs', u'--recode-video', u'mp4', u'--mark-watched']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'-F', u'https://r3---sn-a5m7lnlz.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?requiressl=yes&id=afb7a615d11413a7&itag=22&source=webdrive&ttl=transient&app=explorer&ip=64.201.108.45&ipbits=0&expire=1484209712&sparams=expire,id,ip,ipbits,itag,mm,mn,ms,mv,nh,pl,requiressl,source,ttl&signature=1145579F2F6BD3BB4219D8964B3A45E0BA19C48B.709BF38EB5FF608E7014B97FBD25B30EF836C7FE&key=cms1&pl=19&lemprms=NjQuMjAxLjEwOC40NQ&uaprm=TW96aWxsYS81LjAgKE1hY2ludG9zaDsgSW50ZWwgTWFjIE9TIFggMTAuOTsgcnY6NDUuMCkgR2Vja28vMjAxMDAxMDEgRmlyZWZveC80NS4w&cms_redirect=yes&mm=31&mn=sn-a5m7lnlz&ms=au&mt=1484199659&mv=m&nh=IgpwcjAxLmxheDAyKgkxMjcuMC4wLjE']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.01.10
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Darwin-13.4.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.2.2, ffprobe 3.2.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] videoplayback?requiressl=yes&id=afb7a615d11413a7&itag=22&source=webdrive&ttl=transient&app=explorer&ip=64.201.108.45&ipbits=0&expire=1484209712&sparams=expire,id,ip,ipbits,itag,mm,mn,ms,mv,nh,pl,requiressl,source,ttl&signature=1145579F2F6BD3BB4219D8964B3A45E0BA19C48B: Requesting header
[info] Available formats for videoplayback?requiressl=yes&id=afb7a615d11413a7&itag=22&source=webdrive&ttl=transient&app=explorer&ip=64.201.108.45&ipbits=0&expire=1484209712&sparams=expire,id,ip,ipbits,itag,mm,mn,ms,mv,nh,pl,requiressl,source,ttl&signature=1145579F2F6BD3BB4219D8964B3A45E0BA19C48B:
format code  extension      resolution note
mp4          unknown_video  unknown    
keybounceMBP:Downloads michael$ 

It does download:

[download] Destination: videoplayback.unknown_video

But loses the filename.
(And, after downloading, it runs ffmpeg to convert -- note that it plays just fine as-is in the browser.)

[remitamine]

use the original url not the mp4 url.

youtube-dl -F https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByeS4oOUV-49Zzh4R1J6R09zazQ/edit?pli=1
[GoogleDrive] 0ByeS4oOUV-49Zzh4R1J6R09zazQ: Downloading webpage
[info] Available formats for 0ByeS4oOUV-49Zzh4R1J6R09zazQ:
format code  extension  resolution note
43           webm       640x360    
34           flv        640x360    
18           mp4        640x360    
35           flv        854x480    
59           mp4        854x480    
22           mp4        1280x720   
37           mp4        1920x1080  (best)

[laravelish]

@remitamine what if we dont know the original url ?