[YouTube] Cannot download one video

[IllidanS4]

Make sure you are using the latest version: run youtube-dl --version and ensure your version is 2018.08.04. If it's not, read this FAQ entry and update. Issues with outdated version will be rejected.

• I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2018.08.04

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• At least skimmed through the README, most notably the FAQ and BUGS sections
• Searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones
• Checked that provided video/audio/playlist URLs (if any) are alive and playable in a browser

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[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--ffmpeg-location', u'.', u'-v', u'-o', u'video.mp4', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tcPn_iL77U']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out None, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.08.04
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 (CPython) - Linux-3.10.0-693.11.6.el7.x86_64-x86_64-with-centos-7.3.1611-Core
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] 0tcPn_iL77U: Downloading webpage
[youtube] 0tcPn_iL77U: Downloading video info webpage
[debug] Default format spec: best/bestvideo+bestaudio
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'https://r2---sn-2gb7sn7z.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?mt=1533560599&lmt=1532650916561919&ip=2a02%3A2b88%3A2%3A1%3A%3A585c%3A1&itag=22&ei=Y0doW73EO4rBgQeQk7f4CQ&sparams=dur%2Cei%2Cid%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Clmt%2Cmime%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cpl%2Cratebypass%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cexpire&id=o-AMr6MF58uWt4g_j3sy7myBnV_c2eUwNkmbDunLJyHGTZ&fvip=2&key=yt6&requiressl=yes&mime=video%2Fmp4&expire=1533582276&mn=sn-2gb7sn7z%2Csn-c0q7lnly&ipbits=0&mm=31%2C26&c=WEB&pl=32&initcwndbps=8096250&dur=859.927&signature=C16EA2EC889AFF0975E7C8BEEA3AC7E1D239FCCF.73A388C29B43C9585E7AADF30A64717B2F3E7B81&ms=au%2Conr&mv=m&source=youtube&ratebypass=yes'
[download] Resuming download at byte 374334


ERROR: Did not get any data blocks
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "./youtube-dl/__main__.py", line 19, in <module>
    youtube_dl.main()
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 472, in main
    _real_main(argv)
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 462, in _real_main
    retcode = ydl.download(all_urls)
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2001, in download
    url, force_generic_extractor=self.params.get('force_generic_extractor', False))
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 803, in extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 857, in process_ie_result
    return self.process_video_result(ie_result, download=download)
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1635, in process_video_result
    self.process_info(new_info)
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1908, in process_info
    success = dl(filename, info_dict)
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1847, in dl
    return fd.download(name, info)
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 364, in download
    return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 342, in real_download
    return download()
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 312, in download
    self.report_error('Did not get any data blocks')
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 165, in report_error
    self.ydl.report_error(*args, **kargs)
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 620, in report_error
    self.trouble(error_message, tb)
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 582, in trouble
    tb_data = traceback.format_list(traceback.extract_stack())

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[dstftw]

best format is not available for this video due to Youtube fault. Select different format.

[IllidanS4]

@dstftw Well, in this case, shouldn't it at least offer a better error message?

[dstftw]

No, cause it's impossible for it to guess the actual reason.