ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

[ghost]

youtube-dl --verbose "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrS6bI5nNJc"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrS6bI5nNJc']
[debug] Encodings: locale 'UTF-8', fs 'UTF-8', out 'UTF-8', pref: 'UTF-8'
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.03.12
[debug] Python version 2.7.3 - Linux-3.2.0-60-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-12.04-precise
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] vrS6bI5nNJc: Downloading webpage
[youtube] vrS6bI5nNJc: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] vrS6bI5nNJc: Extracting video information
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 969, in process_info
success = dl(filename, info_dict)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 945, in dl
return fd.download(name, info)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 290, in download
return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 52, in real_download
data = self.ydl.urlopen(request)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1173, in urlopen
return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 406, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 519, in http_response
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 438, in error
result = self._call_chain(_args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 378, in _call_chain
result = func(_args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 625, in http_error_302
return self.parent.open(new, timeout=req.timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 406, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 519, in http_response
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 444, in error
return self._call_chain(_args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 378, in _call_chain
result = func(_args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 527, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

[ace03uec]

The download works fine, now. I guess youtube had some issues yesterday.
http://downrightnow.com/youtube

[ghost]

Thanks - i can confirm NOW. Weird: at the time, it was still possible to view it in a browser, so not totally down.... but - who cares?

[ace03uec]

mark the issue as closed, thanks.

[jaimeMF]

I also got the error, I'm closing it. Thanks for the report.