ERROR: Unable to download video webpage: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

[Houseghost]

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**-MacBook-Pro:bin **$ [debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.06.34.4
[debug] Python version 2.7.2 - Darwin-12.4.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] watch: Downloading video webpage
ERROR: Unable to download video webpage: HTTP Error 404: Not Found; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 416, in _real_extract
video_webpage_bytes = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read()
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 126, in urlopen
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 400, in open
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 513, in http_response
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 438, in error
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 372, in _call_chain
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 521, in http_error_default
HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 312, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 92, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 418, in _real_extract
raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to download video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
ExtractorError: Unable to download video webpage: HTTP Error 404: Not Found; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

[1]+ Exit 1 ./youtube-dl --verbose https://www.youtube.com/watch?

[moraxy]

[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?']

missing video id

[Houseghost]

Hm. I did call it with an ID. However the script must cut it off. But why?
After trying again I got a different error which pointed me in the right direction. I didn't pass it within " " ... That was all. And inside the link was a special character. But why did it pass a different error this time?
The link is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CkxdVMdzkrk#t=3135

[phihag]

Most likely, you did not quote the URL correctly. If you're still seeing two different behaviors, can you post the exact command lines of each?

[Houseghost]

Both times I wrote:

./youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CkxdVMdzkrk#t=3135

I got it in a Automator-Script so that the complete link is passed directly to the script. First time the URL got lost
--> 404 error
and after trying it again some time later it told me that quotes are missing.
After quoting it everything worked fine.

[phihag]

That line is written a little strangely and does almost certainly not do what you want. It gets broken down like this:

Launch youtube-dl in background:
./youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded &

Set a shell variable
v=CkxdVMdzkrk

A comment
#t=3135

[Houseghost]

That is very interesting to read! I wasn't aware of this. So what do you propose how I should call the script and pass a link?
Every link I open within youtube ends with the parameter v=SOME_ID.

[phihag]

By the way, that breakdown has nothing to do with youtube-dl (it's done before youtube-dl is even started), it's a shell feature. You can simply quote the URL. In a shell script, put it in (double) quotes. Can you post the script you're using?

When you're interactively calling youtube-dl (i.e. typing in commands), simply put the URL in single or double quotes. Alternatively, prepend each ampersand with a backslash.

[xanadu]

Just quote the url

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Houseghost notifications@github.comwrote:

That is very interesting to read! I wasn't aware of this. So what do you
propose how I should call the script and pass a link?
Every link I open within youtube ends with the parameter v=SOME_ID.

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