Youku extractor not work anymore

[Huarong]

The Youku extractor always work well utill today. I find whatever video I download, it will throw a error like this.

hhr@jyy-master:~/temp$ youtube-dl http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNjI0MTkxNjAw.html
[Youku] XNjI0MTkxNjAw: Downloading webpage
[Youku] XNjI0MTkxNjAw: Extracting information
ERROR: unable to download video data: <urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused>

I am using the laterst version.
Please help to fix this problem. Thank you.

[Okona]

I tried using a more elaborate User Agent (taken from the current Version of Safari - which works as browser):

$ youtube-dl --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_3) AppleWebKit/537.76.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0.4 Safari/537.76.4" http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNjI0MTkxNjAw.html
[Youku] XNjI0MTkxNjAw: Downloading webpage
[Youku] XNjI0MTkxNjAw: Extracting information
ERROR: unable to download video data: <urlopen error [Errno 61] Connection refused>

But also no avail.

[zmwangx]

This issue doesn't include debugging info. Here's an example:

$ youtube-dl --verbose http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNzQzNTI2Njg4.html
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNzQzNTI2Njg4.html']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.07.20.2
[debug] Python version 2.7.8 - Darwin-13.3.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Youku] XNzQzNTI2Njg4: Downloading webpage
[Youku] XNzQzNTI2Njg4: Extracting information
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'http://f.youku.com/player/getFlvPath/sid/140590611049718883292_00/st/flv/fileid/030002010053CBBEDF408216C74C9DEC385EC5-B034-6065-B28E-58B9C34F09E5?k=57d4b6b16fa70bff2411e084'
ERROR: unable to download video data: <urlopen error [Errno 61] Connection refused>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/zmwang/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1022, in process_info
    success = dl(filename, info_dict)
  File "/Users/zmwang/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 998, in dl
    return fd.download(name, info)
  File "/Users/zmwang/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 291, in download
    return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
  File "/Users/zmwang/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 58, in real_download
    data = self.ydl.urlopen(request)
  File "/Users/zmwang/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1227, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 404, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 422, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1214, in http_open
    return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1184, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)
URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 61] Connection refused>

[Gohan]

GohanMbp:~ gohan$ youtube-dl --verbose -F http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XODA2NDI4NTc2.html
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', '-F', 'http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XODA2NDI4NTc2.html']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.10.18
[debug] Python version 2.7.3 - Darwin-13.4.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Youku] XODA2NDI4NTc2: Downloading JSON metadata
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'http://k.youku.com/player/getFlvPath/sid/141380834690018634342_00/st/flv/fileid/03000206005443114359CD05C59D06875AF978-931B-DC58-B829-91DB25A08854?k=4e4992d27d446443261df666'
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1037, in process_info
success = dl(filename, info_dict)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1013, in dl
return fd.download(name, info)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 292, in download
return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 64, in real_download
data = self.ydl.urlopen(request)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1266, in urlopen
return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 406, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 519, in http_response
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 444, in error
return self._call_chain(_args)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 378, in _call_chain
result = func(_args)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/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

[johny1]

I receive the same error when trying to download a file from youku. "ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 404: Not Found"

[yan12125]

Thanks to @PeterDing's work (#5833), this video will be supported in the next version. Note that some videos mentioned in this issue are georestricted in Mainland China. A proxy or a China verification proxy is necessary.