I get error on some YouTube URLs

[truhlikfredy]

Getting errors on links like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=xWF0q6zCslE&NR=1

(it's this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWF0q6zCslE )

[aam1r]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=xWF0q6zCslE&NR=1 doesn't work for me however http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWF0q6zCslE works fine.

I believe it has errors while parsing the URL. Try passing in a URL where 'v' is the first parameter

[phihag]

youtube-dl 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=xWF0q6zCslE&NR=1'

works fine on my machine. Can you post your exact command line? Note that URLs (or any arguments) containing ampersands must be put in quotes in the shell, lest they are interpreted as shell metacharacters. For example,

youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=xWF0q6zCslE&NR=1

is the same as

youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp & v=xWF0q6zCslE & NR=1

. It executes youtube-dl in the background (that's what the ampersand does), sets the variable v in the background, and then sets the variable NR.

Since this is a common mistake, we should maybe include it in the FAQ. It is already mentioned in the BUGS section (scroll down to the bottom of https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl ).

[truhlikfredy]

acctualy there was different problem, parsing urls from xml and the "amp" were literary "amp" and not "&" so after conversion of html tags in bash got sorted out. It didn't showed here because this comment form convert it too, so & amp became just & and you got different link than mine script had.

[truhlikfredy]

But thanks anyway you helped me realise the html tags problem without pointing to it directly :D