Youtube URLs with feature=player_embedded are not detected

[hyperknot]

It seems that youtube-dl doesn't detect youtube ids from urls with feature=player_embedded:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=m0dwNon116k

I am very surprised, given youtube-dl's super robust URL decoding abilities.

This URL scheme is very common for youtube, since this is what a user gets when right click / "Copy video URL" on any embedded video.

[hyperknot]

Sorry, I realised it from the error message, it's all about quotes! Is there no way to detect the unescaped ? character from shell?

[phihag]

The problem is not the unescaped ? (that's almost always harmless), but the unescaped &. Your shell will give youtube-dl just the part until the ampersand (you can run youtube-dl with the -v switch to see what it gets from the shell). There is no way to get the rest of the URL. Simply put the URL in quotes (preferably single, double on Windows), or replace & with \&.