Escaped paranthesis in title fails

[davidhedlund]

artist="1200 Micrograms"; title="The Cosmologist (Galileo)"; youtube-dl "ytsearch10:$artist - $title" -f 172/171/43/webm/ogg --no-playlist --ignore-errors --max-filesize 75m --min-views 10000 --get-id --match-title ^"$artist - $title"$ --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['ytsearch10:1200 Micrograms - The Cosmologist (Galileo)', '-f', '172/171/43/webm/ogg', '--no-playlist', '--ignore-errors', '--max-filesize', '75m', '--min-views', '10000', '--get-id', '--match-title', '^1200 Micrograms - The Cosmologist (Galileo)$', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale 'UTF-8', fs 'UTF-8', out 'UTF-8', pref: 'UTF-8'
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.02.13
[debug] Python version 2.7.3 - Linux-3.2.0-58-generic-x86_64-with-Trisquel-6.0-toutatis
[debug] Proxy map: {}
ERROR: [youtube] No video results; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 493, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 158, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 565, in _real_extract
return self._get_n_results(query, n)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1697, in _get_n_results
raise ExtractorError(u'[youtube] No video results')
ExtractorError: [youtube] No video results; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update.

[jaimeMF]

If you run ytsearch:foo \(bar\) it means you want to search exactly foo \(bar\) not foo (bar), you only have to escape the parenthesis in the --match-title option. Therefore if you don't escape them, we have the same problem as in #2381

[davidhedlund]

On 2014-02-16 11:27, Jaime Marquínez Ferrándiz wrote:

If you run |ytsearch:foo (bar)| it means you want to search exactly
|foo (bar)| not |foo (bar)|, you only have to escape the parenthesis
in the |--match-title| option. Therefore if you don't escape them, we
have the same problem as in #2381
#2381

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#2385 (comment).

Thanks.