download error

[techhk]

Got this error on both public and private video.

ERROR: unable to open for writing: [Errno 22] invalid mode ('wb') or filename:

URL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-qjyEn3bjs&list=PLxgo3AdNW0Ln1G1xcELNyH2w7A8MNI6hZ

Thank you.

[phihag]

Can you post the entire output you get when you run youtube-dl with the --verbose option?

[joelgallant]

Try running

youtube-dl "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-qjyEn3bjs"

And yes, use --verbose if that doesn't work. Make sure you have write permission for the file.

[techhk]

C:>youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-qjyEn3bjs&list=PLxgo3AdNW0Ln1G1x
cELNyH2w7A8MNI6hZ&index=1 --verbose
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] R-qjyEn3bjs: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] R-qjyEn3bjs: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] R-qjyEn3bjs: Extracting video information
ERROR: unable to open for writing: [Errno 22] invalid mode ('wb') or filename: u
'Hadoop Training 1 - Introduction to BigData, Hadoop, HDFS, MAPReduce HadoopExa
m.com-R-qjyEn3bjs.mp4.part'
'list' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
'index' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

[nodiscc]

For what it's worth this video downloads without problem on my Linux (Debian) machine:

$ 
youtube-dl "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-qjyEn3bjs&list=PLxgo3AdNW0Ln1G1xcELNyH2w7A8MNI6hZ&index=1 --verbose"
[youtube:playlist] Downloading playlist PLPLxgo3AdNW0Ln1G1xcELNyH2w7A8MNI6hZ - add --no-playlist to just download video R-qjyEn3bjs
[youtube:playlist] PLxgo3AdNW0Ln1G1xcELNyH2w7A8MNI6hZ: Downloading page #1
[youtube:playlist] PLxgo3AdNW0Ln1G1xcELNyH2w7A8MNI6hZ: Downloading page #2
[download] Downloading playlist: Hadoop
[youtube:playlist] playlist 'Hadoop': Collected 9 video ids (downloading 9 of them)
[download] Downloading video #1 of 9
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] R-qjyEn3bjs: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] R-qjyEn3bjs: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] R-qjyEn3bjs: Extracting video information
[download] Resuming download at byte 2297642
[download] Destination: Hadoop Training 1  - Introduction to BigData, Hadoop, HDFS, MAPReduce HadoopExam.com-R-qjyEn3bjs.mp4
[download]   7.6% [...]

I think @joelg236 needs to enclose the url in double quotes, the & character seems to have a special meaning in his shell too.

[kiev78]

For me the issue was because the exe didn't have write access to the c: folder i was trying to download the video into on my windows 8 box. I moved it to another folder and all was ok after that