Youtube-dl hangs during Cron or remote run

[jackalblood]

[Log]

System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'-u', u'PRIVATE', u'-p', u'PRIVATE', u'-a', u'/home/user/webriplist.txt', u'-o', u'/home/user/Media/Webrips/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s']
[debug] Batch file urls: [u'http://roosterteeth.com/episode/rt-podcast-2017-podcast-439-post-show-wg94jg', u'http://achievementhunter.roosterteeth.com/episode/off-topic-the-achievement-hunter-podcast-2017-84-jgioyj', u'http://achievementhunter.roosterteeth.com/episode/off-topic-the-achievement-hunter-podcast-2017-last-call-84-diofg4', u'http://funhaus.roosterteeth.com/episode/gameplay-2017-syshack']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out None, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.07.02
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 - Linux-4.4.0-78-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-16.04-xenial
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg git-2017-05-18-e434840, ffprobe git-2017-05-18-e434840, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
WARNING: unable to extract OpenGraph description; 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.

[Issue Report}

When running Youtube-dl i will run into this issue however this only occurs if the command is run remotely using ssh user@ip -p 22 /path/to/shscript.sh
or if the same script is run using crontab it will have the same error

however if i ssh into the server and then manually run the script with the same links the error will not occur so it only hangs if run by cron or as part of a ssh command from another server

this has been happening for months and ive always been up to date ive tried install by pip and by ppa repo for Ubuntu

if there is anymore info i can provide please just ask very happy to help fix this issue since the program when run manually is flawless

[dstftw]

Provide log of a cron task.

[jackalblood]

id like to but it comes up blank hence why i also replicated it using remote connection

[dstftw]

There is no difference running it locally or remotely. How do you even determine it "hangs", it may be just downloading videos.

[jackalblood]

because as you can see the error is at the end of the debug log however if you run as the user directly it will complete the download

so like ive shown above if i run ssh user@ip -p 22 /path/to/youtubedl.sh ill get the error

but if i do

ssh user@ip -p 22 (press enter)

/path/to/youtubedl.sh (press enter)

it completes just fine

although they are essentially the same command something is different when run as part of another command

in regards to knowing if it completed or i just check my output folder when run with the breaks to push enter the files download and appear in my output folder delete them run as part of ssh and they wont appear even after hours

[jackalblood]

Solved the issue by first invoking a screen on remote server then running the .sh script

example

screen -dmS (name) /path/to/script.sh