running youtube-dl on android (samsung galaxy s3 phone)

[nemesisb12]

I have tried to run the youtube-dl.py script on android following the procedure described in #967 but not all the steps are indicated.

I couldn't figure out how to run the script using the direct method: "python youtube-dl.py" so I tried to create a top-level file that calls the script and it looks like it wants to run, but I get the error:

"SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xeb' in file /storage/sdcard0/sl4a/scripts/youtube-dl.py on line 3, but no encoding declared"

I then added a line to define the encoding as utf-8 in my top level script and then into youtube-dl.py as the second line, but that gives another error, probably because youtube-dl is actually a binary file of some sort. The encoding line I added is

-- coding: utf-8 --

My top level file looks like this (I renamed youtube-dl.py as youtube_dl.py because python can't import modules that contain dashes in the name):
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-- coding: utf-8 --

import android
import os, sys
import youtube_dl

droid = android.Android()

os.system("/storage/sdcard0/data/mydata/youtube-dl.py sfR_HWMzgyc")

youtube-dl.main()

youtube_dl.main("sfR_HWMzgyc")

execfile('/storage/sdcard0/sl4a/scripts/youtube-dl.py sfR_HWMzgyc')

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I'm a little stuck right now since I don't know what to try next.

Could you provide the exact steps that you used to generate that screenshot which shows that youtube-dl was able to run all the way through? I'm running sl4a 2.6 like you.

Thanks in advance.

[phihag]

What is the output of python --version on your system? The SyntaxError normally indicates an outdated Python.

Also note that in your second approach, you should rename youtube-dl to something other than youtube_dl.py - that's just confusing. Instead, you can rename it to ytdl and then use a script like

import sys
sys.path.append('/path/to/replace/this/ytdl')
import youtube_dl
youtube_dl.main(['sfR_HWMzgyc'])

If you want to follow up on my post with the screenshot (which used your first method, but with a current Python), please just comment there. Otherwise, it gets too confusing to track the problems over multiple issues. Additionally, people searching for android can then benefit from your experience. Thanks!

[YECAPP]

Final run ok for me, this is the code that running right

import sys,os
sys.path.append('/path/to/replace/this/ytdl')
import youtube_dl
os.chdir(r'/sdcard/Download')
youtube_dl.main(['sfR_HWMzgyc'])

Add os library to change directory if denied write permissions