ARD - HTTP Error 404: Not Found

[triangulum]

Running the latest version: 2018.11.07. I can watch the video via a web browser, but cannot download via youtube-dl.

The video:

• https://www.ardmediathek.de/tv/30-Favoriten/50-Gr%C3%BCnde-Wien-zu-lieben/rbb-Fernsehen/Video?bcastId=17399976&documentId=57321760

The command was:

youtube-dl -F https://www.ardmediathek.de/tv/30-Favoriten/50-Gr%C3%BCnde-Wien-zu-lieben/rbb-Fernsehen/Video?bcastId=17399976&documentId=57321760

And the log is:

$ [debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-vF', u'https://www.ardmediathek.de/tv/30-Favoriten/50-Gr%C3%BCnde-Wien-zu-lieben/rbb-Fernsehen/Video?bcastId=17399976']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.11.07
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 (CPython) - Linux-3.10.0-862.14.4.el7.x86_64-x86_64-with-centos-7.5.1804-Core
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-89948-ge3d946b3f4-static, ffprobe N-89948-ge3d946b3f4-static
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[ARD:mediathek] Video: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 404: Not Found (caused by HTTPError()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 605, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2211, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 437, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 550, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 469, in error
    result = self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 656, in http_error_302
    return self.parent.open(new, timeout=req.timeout)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 437, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 550, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 475, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 558, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

[dstftw]

https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl#video-url-contains-an-ampersand-and-im-getting-some-strange-output-1-2839-or-v-is-not-recognized-as-an-internal-or-external-command

[triangulum]

Ah, well that was silly! Might be worth adding a message to the CLI, with a simple troubleshooting step.

[dstftw]

Again: it's not a youtube-dl issue and it can't know whether you forgot to escape & or not making it impossible to guess when to write such a message.

[triangulum]

That's true - I suppose it's good practice to use single quotes in general, to disable the function of any special characters.

[dstftw]

While using shell-specific quotes is a good practice, using single quotes won't work in some shells.