Unsupported URL (youtube)

[Zeriuno]

Running youtube-dl (up to date), I found an unsupported URL. Doing as I am told, I report the issue.

youtube-dl --verbose http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=NTJUFQmHbvc [1] 34096 Roccaforte:~ daniele$ [debug] System config: [] [debug] User config: [] [debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?'] [debug] Encodings: locale 'UTF-8', fs 'utf-8', out 'UTF-8', pref: 'UTF-8' [debug] youtube-dl version 2014.02.17 [debug] Python version 2.7.1 - Darwin-11.4.2-x86_64-i386-64bit [debug] Proxy map: {} [generic] watch?: Requesting header [redirect] Following redirect to http://www.youtube.com/ [generic] : Requesting header WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor. [generic] : Downloading webpage [generic] : Extracting information ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.youtube.com/; 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/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 493, in extract_info ie_result = ie.extract(url) File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 158, in extract return self._real_extract(url) File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 380, in _real_extract raise ExtractorError('Unsupported URL: %s' % url) ExtractorError: Unsupported URL: http://www.youtube.com/; 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.

[ghost]

If you have ampersand in url, you must use quotes.

[phihag]

As pulpe said, ampersands will be interpreted by the shell and not even reach youtube-dl (as you can see in the output line Command-line args). Either escape ampersands with backslashes or put the whole URL in quotes, like

$ youtube-dl 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=NTJUFQmHbvc'
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] NTJUFQmHbvc: Downloading webpage
[youtube] NTJUFQmHbvc: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] NTJUFQmHbvc: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: Lea Verou - CSS in the 4th Dimension - JSConf.Asia 2013-NTJUFQmHbvc.mp4
[download] 100% of 378.31MiB in 00:33

Starting with the next version, youtube-dl will warn you for this truncated URL, too:

$ youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=NTJUFQmHbvc
[1] 12695
phihag@t4:~/projects/youtube-dl$ ERROR: Did you forget to quote the URL? Remember that & is
a meta character in most shells, so you want to put the URL in quotes, like
youtube-dl "http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=foo&v=BaW_jenozKc"  or simply  youtube-dl BaW_jenozKc  .