cannot download youtube-dl.exe

[luoyanghero]

I can visit youtube page, but I cannot download youtube-dl.exe , I have tried many times. Is there some limits?

[Hrxn]

Probably because of Internet in China...

[luoyanghero]

Now I have download youtube-dl.exe.
I can visit youtube page.
This is a page about jinyong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHhk9fDe_MQ
But cannot download the video using youtube-dl, the error as following:

>youtube-dl.exe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHhk9fDe_MQ
[youtube] fHhk9fDe_MQ: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [WinError 10060] 由于连接方在一段时间后没有正确答复或连接的主机没有反应，连接尝试失败。> (caused by URLError(TimeoutError(10060, '由于连接方在一段时间后没有正确答复或连接的主机没有反应，连接尝试失败。', None, 10060, None),))

[stdlog]

@luoyanghero
Use proxy with youtube-dl , e.g

youtube-dl --proxy PROXY_ADDRESS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHhk9fDe_MQ

If you use ss ,then proxy_address could be socks5://127.0.0.1:1080/
Proxy usage documented here: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl#network-options.

[yan12125]

@luoyanghero Could you watch videos without proxies or VPNs in browsers? What @Hrxn said is a possible reason. AFAIK in China, YouTube is blocked and connections to GitHub are interfered. @stdlog's suggestion should be useful, too.

[dstftw]

Closing since it's most definitely not a youtube-dl issue.

[luoyanghero]

@stdlog yes, it needs proxy option