Downloading private video / bash error?

[dtradish]

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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

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 -u username -p password "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A25kmydqfJk"
[1] 50940
-bash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A25kmydqfJk: No such file or directory
$ [debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'-u', u'PRIVATE', u'-p', u'PRIVATE']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.04.03
[debug] Python version 2.7.8 - Darwin-15.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.1.3, ffprobe 3.1.3
[debug] Proxy map: {}
Usage: youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]

youtube-dl: error: You must provide at least one URL.
Type youtube-dl --help to see a list of all options
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• Single video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc
• Single video: https://youtu.be/BaW_jenozKc
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I went to the IRC link for #youtube-dl and asked for help there, but the user helping me suggested that it is a bug. In my verbose output, the command line arguments doesn't read the youtube link despite including it. The user also noticed I get a bash error but I'm not sure what that means either. I replaced username and password with the actual credentials, but that was not the issue.

[dstftw]

You have to either put the username and password into quotes or manually escape all the special shell characters. Read FAQ entry for details.

[dtradish]

I tried wrapping both the username and password with " and ', but they still give me a but these are the errors that followed:

$youtube-dl --verbose -u "username" -p "password" 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A25kmydqfJk'
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'-u', u'PRIVATE', u'-p', u'PRIVATE', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A25kmydqfJk']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.04.03
[debug] Python version 2.7.8 - Darwin-15.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.1.3, ffprobe 3.1.3
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Downloading login page
[youtube] Logging in
WARNING: unable to log in: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request
[youtube] A25kmydqfJk: Downloading webpage
[youtube] A25kmydqfJk: Downloading embed webpage
[youtube] A25kmydqfJk: Refetching age-gated info webpage
ERROR: A25kmydqfJk: YouTube said: This video is private.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/Sidd26/Downloads/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 761, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/Users/Sidd26/Downloads/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 429, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/Users/Sidd26/Downloads/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1403, in _real_extract
    expected=True, video_id=video_id)
ExtractorError: A25kmydqfJk: YouTube said: This video is private.
<end of log>

My youtube link doesn't have an ampersand, but could it be an issue b/c my password contains an ampersand? What special characters do I need to worry about to backslash?