Problems parsing embedded youtube video URL

[tjesp]

Often when I copy and paste a link from an embedded youtube video I get a link on this format:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_o-sKdyUPO8

The problem is that youtube-dl seems to need the "watch?" string to be immediately followed by the "v=??????" string.

This url format is what I most often get when I right click an embedded video and select "copy video URL".

[phihag]

Which version of youtube-dl are you using? Can you post the output of youtube-dl -v 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_o-sKdyUPO8'? It works fine for me:

$ youtube-dl -v 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_o-sKdyUPO8' 
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_o-sKdyUPO8']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.08.09
[debug] Python version 2.7.5+ - Linux-3.0.80-x86_64-with-debian-jessie-sid
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] _o-sKdyUPO8: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] _o-sKdyUPO8: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] _o-sKdyUPO8: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: Workspaces in Weston (Orbital shell plugin)-_o-sKdyUPO8.flv
[download] 100.0% of 7.45MiB at  7.75MiB/s ETA 00:00

[jaimeMF]

Since it seems to work fine, I'm closing the issue. Make sure you are quoting the url, because it contains a &, which is a special character for the shell. If you still have the problem, feel free to post the output of youtube-dl --verbose 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_o-sKdyUPO8' and we will reopen the issue.