Error downloading yahoo video: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known>

[jcsk]

jeffrey$ ~/dev/youtube/youtube-dl -t http://screen.yahoo.com/saturday-night-live-backstage-joe-000000791.html
[Yahoo] 000000791: Downloading webpage
[Yahoo] 000000791: Downloading info webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known>

jeffrey$ python --version
Python 2.7.2

jeffrey$ ~/dev/youtube/youtube-dl --version
2013.09.24.2

jeffrey$ ~/dev/youtube/youtube-dl -t http://screen.yahoo.com/saturday-night-live-backstage-joe-000000791.html
[Yahoo] 000000791: Downloading webpage
[Yahoo] 000000791: Downloading info webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known>

jeffrey$ ~/dev/youtube/youtube-dl --verbose http://screen.yahoo.com/saturday-night-live-backstage-joe-000000791.html
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://screen.yahoo.com/saturday-night-live-backstage-joe-000000791.html']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.09.24.2
[debug] Python version 2.7.2 - Darwin-12.5.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Yahoo] 000000791: Downloading webpage
[Yahoo] 000000791: Downloading info webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known>
File "/Users/jeffrey/dev/youtube/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 133, in _request_webpage
return compat_urllib_request.urlopen(url_or_request)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 126, in urlopen
return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 394, in open
response = self._open(req, data)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 412, in _open
'_open', req)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 372, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1199, in http_open
return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1174, in do_open
raise URLError(err)

[yasoob]

Interesting. I am getting the same error but if I open the url through requests I am able to successfully open it:

>>> import requests
>>> html = requests.get('http://screen.yahoo.com/saturday-night-live-backstage-joe-000000791.html')
>>> html
<Response [200]>

[jaimeMF]

Fixed, thanks for the report!

@yasoob the webpage was being downloaded fine, the problem was with the second request
info_url = 'http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/rest/v2/pops;lmsoverride=1;outputformat=mrss;cb=974419660;id=%s;rd=news.yahoo.com;datacontext=mdb;lg=KCa2IihxG3qE60vQ7HtyUy' % video_id

[yasoob]

Ah okay 👍

[jcsk]

Thanks for the quick turn around. Youtube-dl is awesome!

[orangeoval]

I have a similar issue:

[~/scripts]: python --version
Python 2.7.1

[~/scripts]: youtube-dl --version
2013.12.11.2

[~/scripts]: youtube-dl -x url https://myspace.com/spiderbags/music/song/bad-complexion-39008443-41298278
WARNING: The url doesn't specify the protocol, trying with http
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
"main", fname, loader, pkg_name)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
exec code in run_globals
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/main.py", line 18, in
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/init.py", line 723, in main
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/init.py", line 713, in _real_main
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 877, in download
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 487, in extract_info
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 521, in process_ie_result
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 471, in extract_info
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 134, in extract
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 149, in _real_extract
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 131, in _test_redirect
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 394, in open
response = self._open(req, data)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 412, in _open
'_open', req)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 372, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1199, in http_open
return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1174, in do_open
raise URLError(err)
urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known>

I am not sure why it throws an error that the "url doesn't specify the protocol". Running the command without the "url" argument causes the script to hang, as follows:

[~/scripts]: youtube-dl -x https://myspace.com/spiderbags/music/song/bad-complexion-39008443-41298278 --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-x', 'https://myspace.com/spiderbags/music/song/bad-complexion-39008443-41298278', '--verbose']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.12.11.2
[debug] Python version 2.7.1 - Darwin-11.4.2-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] Proxy map: {}

[yasoob]

@orangeoval what is -x?

[orangeoval]

Damn you guys are quick around here. The -x is to post process the output into an audio-only file. From the help/documentation:

"Post-processing Options:
-x, --extract-audio convert video files to audio-only files (requires ffmpeg or avconv and ffprobe or avprobe)"

I do have an up-to-date ffmpeg, and running this same argument structure works for youtube videos, just not this myspace one. I get the same results without the "-x" fag as I do when using it, for what its worth.

[phihag]

@orangeoval Your issue is completely separate. When you add url, that means that you want to download literally the URL url, which fails, because, well, url does not contain a protocol (like http or https).

I've opened a new issue for that (note that this issue is about yahoo video) in #2040. At the very bottom of the page there, there is a button to subscribe, please do that.

[orangeoval]

Sorry about that. Still new to this process here, thanks for the quick and helpful feedback.