.netrc on windows

[5shekel]

on windows you cant create file starting with dot.
might be a problem with the module itself.
also it is not clear waht should be inside that netrc file.

youtube-dl.py -n http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO1OV5B_JDw
WARNING: parsing .netrc: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'd:\\bin\\.netrc'

[phihag]

.netrc contains usernames and password for various network services, kind of like the password manager in your browser. Although the Python module for netrc is available on Windows, it's pretty much useless without cygwin or the Windows POSIX subsystem (haha).

The fix for your problem is simple: Don't use -n or --netrc unless you have a netrc file configured, which seems not to be the case on your Windows installation. If you need to specify a username and a password (and you don't for http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO1OV5B_JDw , which is public), use the --username and --password options.

I'm closing this issue because simply omitting -n should fix the problem. If that isn't the case, please comment and reopen.

[5shekel]

hi there, can we take a second look at windows integration of netrc.
seems it can be done , or am i wrong
https://www.labkey.org/wiki/home/Documentation/page.view?name=netrc

[5shekel]

bump

[dstftw]

.netrc works fine on Windows.

[5shekel]

but how? i'm probably missing something.
windows doesn't let me save a dot file (file starting with dot) and youtube-dl explicitly asks for .netrc.

youtube-dl.exe -v -n EYimjHuU99c
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '-n', 'EYimjHuU99c']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.06.03
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-10-10.0.10586
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.0.1, ffprobe 3.0.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
WARNING: parsing .netrc: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'c:\\dir\\.netrc'
...

[dstftw]

http://superuser.com/questions/64471/create-rename-a-file-folder-that-begins-with-a-dot-in-windows

[5shekel]

amazing, tnx!

[svefn]

hi, i have trouble linking to the .netrc file in Windows with $home not set. i have manually set HOME="C:/Users/username/" and it can't find the .netrc file.