Question about proxy

[semprom]

Hello.
What kind of proxy can i use?
Web proxy like this one proxeasy.com or something like this hidemyass.com/proxy-list/ ?
I ask this cuz there are many videos from youtube wich cannot be downloaded from Germany ( i have VPS there ).

Thanks.

[rg3]

Any working HTTP proxy that could be configured in a web browser.

[phihag]

As rg3 said, any HTTP proxy can be used by setting the http_proxy environment variable to the proxy you want. (9 times out of ten, when somebody speaks of a proxy, they mean an HTTP proxy)

However, this only applies to HTTP connections, and not RTMP ones, which would need a SOCKS proxy. Luckily, youtube currently serves nearly every video via HTTP and only a streams and some copyrighted ones via RTMP. Currently, youtube-dl does not support SOCKS proxies. If that's a feature you want, feel free to open a Request labeled bug for SOCKS support.

Of course, you can always use some kind of tunnel/VPN, for example Hotspot Shield.

[semprom]

Hello.
When I try "youtube-dl http_proxy 184.22.120.70:3128 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1oDtwsQDTk" still there is no luck.
The proxy is HTTP and is working.

Any idias?

[phihag]

http_proxy is not a youtube-dl command, but an environment variable. Either set it for the lifetime of the shell:

export http_proxy=http://184.22.120.70:3128
youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1oDtwsQDTk

or only for one invocation:

http_proxy=http://184.22.120.70:3128  youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1oDtwsQDTk

[semprom]

Wow, it works.

Thank you.

[lenik]

I'm the one out of ten.. I had rarely succeeded to use an http proxy, or very slow if luckily some are alive. because most of them are blocked in China. So, I always think of a socks proxy (using ssh tunnel) when speaks of a proxy.

[FiloSottile]

@lenik I had implemented it when I needed to debug a geo-blocked using a ssh AWS machine. I will send you the patch.
Anyway, opened #402 to keep track of the feature request.