Links with '-' in them not working

[oliverthered]

Hi the following link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-3e49K5CbY

and other's like it (containing a -) don't work, even in a batch file.

I presume that the '-' is getting parsed as the start of a command line argument when the parser should really be looking for a white space character prior to the '-' for it to be a command like argument.

[phihag]

Works fine for me (although the mp4 version seems damaged on YouTube's side, see #829):

$ youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-3e49K5CbY -f 43
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] 0-3e49K5CbY: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] 0-3e49K5CbY: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 0-3e49K5CbY: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: Horizon   Allergy Planet BBC Documentary)-0-3e49K5CbY.webm
[download] 100% of 267.49MiB in 00:20

Can you post the entire output of youtube-dl, when called with the -v flag? Also, if you're using a batch file, please post the entire contents of the batch file. Thanks!

[oliverthered]

I can do better than that I expect, I've just copied the repository on github and
apt-get install eric idle python

[phihag]

Sorry, it looks like your answer is incomplete; I don't understand what you wanted to say. Please just post the entire output into your comment.

[oliverthered]

it''s working fine now

As for my previous comment I did point 3 on this list from the youtube-dl FAQ.

If you're suggesting a feature, any details can help:

*If it's an option: How would you call it? What should the help text be?
*If it's support for a new site: Mention an example video URL. If you can describe the download process, that's a huge plus. But don't worry if you can't - we love a good challenge ;).
*For programmers: Providing code that implements the change will speed up the integration process. Fork youtube-dl on github, and send us a pull request.

[leesei]

As @phihag points out, it may be related to the intermittent #829 and not related to a specific clip or option.
Currently we have no better solution other than retry (as you did).