WARNING: Unable to login: Invalid password AGAIN!

[LissieTilbrook]

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youtube-dl --output '%(title)s.%(ext)s' -f mp4 --prefer-ffmpeg -u [redacted] -p [redacted] https://youtu.be/pdLsLfq5lLQ -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--output', u'%(title)s.%(ext)s', u'-f', u'mp4', u'--prefer-ffmpeg', u'-u', u'PRIVATE', u'-p', u'PRIVATE', u'https://youtu.be/pdLsLfq5lLQ', u'-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.04.09
[debug] Python version 2.7.14+ (CPython) - Linux-4.15.0-13-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-18.04-bionic
[debug] exe versions: avconv 3.4.2-1build1, avprobe 3.4.2-1build1, ffmpeg 3.4.2-1build1, ffprobe 3.4.2-1build1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Downloading login page
[youtube] Looking up account info
[youtube] Logging in
WARNING: Unable to login: Invalid password
[youtube] pdLsLfq5lLQ: Downloading webpage
[youtube] pdLsLfq5lLQ: Downloading embed webpage
[youtube] pdLsLfq5lLQ: Refetching age-gated info webpage
[youtube] pdLsLfq5lLQ: Extracting video information
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'https://r2---sn-q4flrn7k.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?source=youtube&initcwndbps=846250&fvip=2&c=WEB&id=o-ANAhV17unDbroGOMfa8IsjGyAveZkgAGsd1mR3vPpHOg&mime=video%2Fmp4&mm=31%2C26&ip=2600%3A1700%3A27a0%3A1ea0%3A5c64%3A3950%3Ab8c0%3A2ce&key=yt6&itag=22&lmt=1490876495630857&dur=204.892&expire=1523616197&pl=43&mt=1523594505&mv=m&ei=ZDXQWuKMPIavwQG4kLD4Dg&ms=au%2Conr&signature=827D22B891B4CB019AF5DF6A49B70AB475D068FD.2021E8E56F2606EF3D79714EF9B8D0B5C0974502&requiressl=yes&ratebypass=yes&sparams=dur%2Cei%2Cid%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Clmt%2Cmime%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cpl%2Cratebypass%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cexpire&mn=sn-q4flrn7k%2Csn-5uaeznd7&ipbits=0'
[download] Destination: Japanese Sex Dolls - Documentary.mp4
[download] 100% of 29.19MiB in 00:09

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Love this software, and thanks for whomever directed me to using the tip above, but I dunno if it's Google or youtube-dl... but I cannot, for the life of me, use youtube-dl to sign in to YouTube!

I don't know if it says incorrect password because it has an "$" in it, and I have escaped it with similar results (I know all about the bash \ escape character)... still says invalid password.

I have no idea why this happens.

[LissieTilbrook]

OOPS... I noticed my mistake!

I used double quotes and the bash escape character... need caffeine...

It works now when I removed the double quotes.