Cant download a Youtube video - getting <urlopen error EOF occurred in violation of protocol (_ssl.c:590)>

[rohan-paul]

Am Using the latest version and running youtube-dl --version gives me 2018.08.22.

What is the purpose of your issue?

• Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)

Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

I am running the below command for a specific Youtube video that is playable normally in the browser

youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEkEi4dp1bU&list=PLFaW_8zE4amOp3pOVCrGO-Ox--q4WShsQ&index=4

And got this error after multiple try

[youtube] lEkEi4dp1bU: Downloading webpage
[youtube] lEkEi4dp1bU: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] lEkEi4dp1bU: Downloading MPD manifest
[youtube] lEkEi4dp1bU: Downloading MPD manifest
[dashsegments] Total fragments: 948
[download] Destination: Ep4 - React Component Communication - Create File sharing web app with Express & ReactJs from Scratch-lEkEi4dp1bU.f136.mp4
[download] 100% of 120.78MiB in 13:45
[dashsegments] Total fragments: 1012
[download] Destination: Ep4 - React Component Communication - Create File sharing web app with Express & ReactJs from Scratch-lEkEi4dp1bU.f140.m4a
[download]  27.2% of ~76.41MiB at  2.81MiB/s ETA 01:48ERROR: unable to download video data: <urlopen error EOF occurred in violation of protocol (_ssl.c:590)>

The output of curl -v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEkEi4dp1bU&list=PLFaW_8zE4amOp3pOVCrGO-Ox--q4WShsQ&index=4 is below

curl-output.txt

[dstftw]

Most likely temporary network issue on your side.