[youtube] Download from channels doesnt work

[xsteadfastx]

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Add the -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with (youtube-dl -v <your command line>), 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 -v https://www.youtube.com/user/DickensDucktailDick
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.youtube.com/user/DickensDucktailDick']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.08.27.1
[debug] Git HEAD: fd0b8fc
[debug] Python version 3.6.2 - Linux-4.10.0-21-generic-x86_64-with-debian-stretch-sid
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.2.4-1build2, ffprobe 3.2.4-1build2
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube:user] DickensDucktailDick: Downloading channel page
[youtube:user] DickensDucktailDick: Downloading page #1
[download] Downloading playlist: DickensDucktailDick
[youtube:user] playlist DickensDucktailDick: Downloading 0 videos
[download] Finished downloading playlist: DickensDucktailDick

$ youtube-dl -v https://www.youtube.com/user/Insi456
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.youtube.com/user/Insi456']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.08.27.1
[debug] Git HEAD: fd0b8fc
[debug] Python version 3.6.2 - Linux-4.10.0-21-generic-x86_64-with-debian-stretch-sid
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.2.4-1build2, ffprobe 3.2.4-1build2
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube:user] Insi456: Downloading channel page
[youtube:user] Insi456: Downloading page #1
[download] Downloading playlist: Insi456
[youtube:user] playlist Insi456: Downloading 0 videos
[download] Finished downloading playlist: Insi456

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Channel downloading from youtube stopped working a few days ago. I guess its because of the redesign. I followed some bugreports (#14083) and this are closed now with a commit that should make it work again. So i upgraded youtube-dl and its still impossible for me to download from this two channels: https://www.youtube.com/user/Insi456 and https://www.youtube.com/user/DickensDucktailDick. There are videos in this channels so i dont know what the problem could be. I read in the bug reports that it can have something to do with the number of videos on this channel. But i thought this got fixed.

[rautamiekka]

Hmm, that's odd, cuz right at this moment I'm downloading entire users and playlists with 2017.09.02, while it didn't work with versions before that after the redesign.

[xsteadfastx]

@rautamiekka it works for some but with this not. Could you try them?

[dstftw]

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