Errors downloading youtube playlists. Error 404. Python 3

[tfree87]

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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 --verbose -x -i --audio-format vorbis --audio-quality 6 "https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=XebG4TO_xss\&list\=PLmKbqjSZR8TYD9bf1-N9MYe_cSEwQAx43"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', '-x', '-i', '--audio-format', 'vorbis', '--audio-quality', '6', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch\\?v\\=XebG4TO_xss\\&list\\=PLmKbqjSZR8TYD9bf1-N9MYe_cSEwQAx43']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.02.07
[debug] Python version 3.5.2 - Linux-4.9.7-201.fc25.x86_64-x86_64-with-fedora-25-Twenty_Five
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.1.5, ffprobe 3.1.5
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] watch\?v\=XebG4TO_xss\&list\=PLmKbqjSZR8TYD9bf1-N9MYe_cSEwQAx43: Requesting header
WARNING: Could not send HEAD request to https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=XebG4TO_xss\&list\=PLmKbqjSZR8TYD9bf1-N9MYe_cSEwQAx43: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
[generic] watch\?v\=XebG4TO_xss\&list\=PLmKbqjSZR8TYD9bf1-N9MYe_cSEwQAx43: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 404: Not Found (caused by <HTTPError 404: 'Not Found'>); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 416, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2006, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 472, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 582, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 510, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 444, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 590, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
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If the purpose of this issue is a site support request please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by yours):

• Single video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc
• Single video: https://youtu.be/BaW_jenozKc
• Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4lCao7KL_QFVb7Iudeipvc2BCavECqzc

Note that youtube-dl does not support sites dedicated to copyright infringement. In order for site support request to be accepted all provided example URLs should not violate any copyrights.

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

While trying to extract audio from Youtube playlists, I seem to always receive an HTTP Error 404 from urllib request.py.

I have used other software programs that function similarly to Youtube-dl and have not had any issues with those so I know the links are fine. In addition, if I right click on an individual video and select "Copy video url" and use that as an argument for youtube-dl the video always downloads and extracts the audio properly. I have updated the youtube-dl script regularly on Fedora using pip3 and I can tell from the verbose command output that youtube-dl is using Python 3 libraries. I know this issue has come up in Python 2 (#8918) so I made sure to run the command with and without forcing the command to run under Python 3.

This seems to have only happened after I upgraded Fedora from 24 to 25. Prior to that I never had any difficulty downloading videos with youtube-dl.

[dstftw]

You either escape special characters or enclose URL in quotes. Not both at the same time.

[tfree87]

I see, somehow my ZSH has switched to automatically escaping pasted characters and I did not catch this issue.

[tfree87]

Thanks for the quick response and I am sorry for wasting time on such a simple fix.