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Error: Cannot write metadata to JSON file. Why is this occurring? #20295

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ghost opened this issue Mar 9, 2019 · 2 comments
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Error: Cannot write metadata to JSON file. Why is this occurring? #20295

ghost opened this issue Mar 9, 2019 · 2 comments

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@ghost ghost commented Mar 9, 2019

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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

Add the -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with (youtube-dl -v <your command line>), copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):


E:\YouTube-dl Projects\YouTube>youtube-dl -v -o ./Channels/%(channel)s/%(upload_date)s_%(title)s.%(ext)s --batch-file youtube-dl-channels.txt --format ("bestvideo[width>=1920]"/bestvideo)+bestaudio/best --download-archive youtube-dl-archive.txt  --yes-playlist --output %(uploader)s_%(channel_id)s/%(upload_date)s-%(uploader)s/%(playlist_uploader)s-%(playlist_title)s/%(upload_date)s-%(title)s-%(id)s/%(upload_date)s %(title)s %(resolution)s %(id)s.%(ext)s --add-metadata --write-info-json --write-all-thumbnails --embed-subs --all-subs --write-description --write-annotation --merge-output-format mkv
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '-o', './Channels/%(channel)s/%(upload_date)s_%(title)s.%(ext)s', '--batch-file', 'youtube-dl-channels.txt', '--format', '(bestvideo[width>=1920]/bestvideo)+bestaudio/best', '--download-archive', 'youtube-dl-archive.txt', '--yes-playlist', '--output', '%(uploader)s_%(channel_id)s/%(upload_date)s-%(uploader)s/%(playlist_uploader)s-%(playlist_title)s/%(upload_date)s-%(title)s-%(id)s/%(upload_date)s', '%(title)s', '%(resolution)s', '%(id)s.%(ext)s', '--add-metadata', '--write-info-json', '--write-all-thumbnails', '--embed-subs', '--all-subs', '--write-description', '--write-annotation', '--merge-output-format', 'mkv']
[debug] Batch file urls: ['https://www.youtube.com/user/galenmarek49/videos', 'https://www.youtube.com/user/HPGamesru/playlists', 'https://www.youtube.com/user/HPGamesru/videos', 'https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4Y0v0kalu8sChpvHpKFlaw', 'https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzHoBd5i16VkC4P44f5acFA', 'https://www.youtube.com/user/UNworld95', 'https://www.youtube.com/user/Fagottron', 'https://www.youtube.com/user/NickBertke/videos', 'https://www.youtube.com/user/SuzanneCiani', 'https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtwKon9qMt5YLVgQt1tvJKg', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qI96lddRn4&list=UU1aPeLTxBgZmiuzkcUZBTIw', 'https://www.youtube.com/user/CloserToTruth1', 'https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWTFGPpNQ0Ms6afXhaWDiRw', 'https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCrnCItH17W-64FDzjwOi5w', 'https://www.youtube.com/user/bebopsam1975', 'https://www.youtube.com/user/allinaday', 'https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTLrhK07g6LP-JtT0VVE56A', 'https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0wb5NK7yi0O-1Wy_7C8tbw', 'https://www.youtube.com/user/periodicvideos', 'https://www.youtube.com/user/engineerguyvideo', 'https://www.youtube.com/user/seancarroll/', 'https://www.youtube.com/user/damewse', 'https://www.youtube.com/user/Scrunchthethird', 'https://www.youtube.com/user/Fibbs1701', 'https://www.youtube.com/user/melodysheep', 'https://www.youtube.com/user/Techmoan', 'https://www.youtube.com/user/tibees', 'https://www.youtube.com/user/enyay', 'https://www.youtube.com/user/msadaghd', 'https://www.youtube.com/user/ContourCorsets', 'https://www.youtube.com/user/vlogbrothers', 'https://www.youtube.com/user/TVLEGENDS', 'https://www.youtube.com/user/johnnycarson/videos', 'https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFC8Vt3FY_7svm_SOBK5aIQ']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.03.09
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.17763
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-93302-g147ef1d947, ffprobe N-93302-g147ef1d947
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube:user] galenmarek49: Downloading channel page
[youtube:playlist] UUyqDA4dvZA0zSG8OVJ1HRSQ: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: Uploads from galenmarek49
[youtube:playlist] playlist Uploads from galenmarek49: Downloading 63 videos
[download] Downloading video 1 of 63
[download] Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone PC Restored/Free Play Setup Tutorial has already been recorded in archive
[download] Downloading video 2 of 63
[download] Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone PC Restored Update has already been recorded in archive
[download] Downloading video 3 of 63
[download] Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone PC Restored Part 19 has already been recorded in archive
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[download] Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone PC Restored Part 18 has already been recorded in archive
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[download] Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone PC Restored Part 17 has already been recorded in archive
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[download] Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone PC Restored Part 16 has already been recorded in archive
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[download] Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone PC Restored Part 15 has already been recorded in archive
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[download] Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone PC Restored Part 14 has already been recorded in archive
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[download] Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone PC Restored Part 13 has already been recorded in archive
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[download] Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone PC Restored Part 12 has already been recorded in archive
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[download] Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone PC Restored Part 11 has already been recorded in archive
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[download] Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone PC Restored Part 10 has already been recorded in archive
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[download] Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone PC Restored Part 9 has already been recorded in archive
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[download] Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone PC Restored Part 8 has already been recorded in archive
[download] Downloading video 15 of 63
[download] Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone PC Restored Part 7 has already been recorded in archive
[download] Downloading video 16 of 63
[download] Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone PC Restored Part 6 has already been recorded in archive
[download] Downloading video 17 of 63
[download] Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone PC Restored Part 5 has already been recorded in archive
[download] Downloading video 18 of 63
[download] Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone PC Restored Part 4 has already been recorded in archive
[download] Downloading video 19 of 63
[download] Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone PC Restored Part 3 has already been recorded in archive
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[download] Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone PC Restored Walkthrough Part 2 has already been recorded in archive
[download] Downloading video 21 of 63
[youtube] ZV2ZVdxRLpI: Downloading webpage
[youtube] ZV2ZVdxRLpI: Downloading video info webpage
WARNING: video doesn't have subtitles
[youtube] ZV2ZVdxRLpI: Searching for annotations.
[youtube] ZV2ZVdxRLpI: Downloading MPD manifest
[info] Writing video description to: galenmarek49_UCyqDA4dvZA0zSG8OVJ1HRSQ\20171027-galenmarek49\galenmarek49-Uploads from galenmarek49\20171027-Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone PC Restored and causeevent Walkthrough Part 1-ZV2ZVdxRLpI\20171027.description
[info] Writing video annotations to: galenmarek49_UCyqDA4dvZA0zSG8OVJ1HRSQ\20171027-galenmarek49\galenmarek49-Uploads from galenmarek49\20171027-Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone PC Restored and causeevent Walkthrough Part 1-ZV2ZVdxRLpI\20171027.annotations.xml
[info] Writing video description metadata as JSON to: galenmarek49_UCyqDA4dvZA0zSG8OVJ1HRSQ\20171027-galenmarek49\galenmarek49-Uploads from galenmarek49\20171027-Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone PC Restored and causeevent Walkthrough Part 1-ZV2ZVdxRLpI\20171027.info.json
ERROR: Cannot write metadata to JSON file galenmarek49_UCyqDA4dvZA0zSG8OVJ1HRSQ\20171027-galenmarek49\galenmarek49-Uploads from galenmarek49\20171027-Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone PC Restored and causeevent Walkthrough Part 1-ZV2ZVdxRLpI\20171027.info.json
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpy110f8qy\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1837, in process_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpy110f8qy\build\youtube_dl\utils.py", line 238, in write_json_file
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\tempfile.py", line 484, in NamedTemporaryFile
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\tempfile.py", line 207, in _mkstemp_inner
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: "galenmarek49_UCyqDA4dvZA0zSG8OVJ1HRSQ\\20171027-galenmarek49\\galenmarek49-Uploads from galenmarek49\\20171027-Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone PC Restored and causeevent Walkthrough Part 1-ZV2ZVdxRLpI\\20171027.info.json.w9p_9p0c.tmp"


E:\YouTube-dl Projects\YouTube>PAUSE
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Why is this occurring? I've referenced another thread, "ERROR: Cannot write metadata to JSON file" if .json file already exists" It appears this error will display for videos previously downloaded (when the script is run again, after stopping it) and then on videos not downloaded yet/first attempt at downloading.
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@ghost ghost commented Mar 10, 2019

Can anyone assist with this? Thank you!
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@dstftw dstftw commented Mar 10, 2019 •
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Most likely due to Windows MAX_PATH limitation.
Also your command is incorrect. Don't pass output template twice and quote it properly.
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