Regarding use of specific source address IP

[nikunjmishra1998]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support issue
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
• I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• I've searched the bugtracker for similar bug reports including closed ones
• I've read bugs section in FAQ

Verbose log

sudo youtube-dl -v --source-address 45.77.52.190 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2hoQ9Hf8ws
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '--source-address', '45.77.52.190', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2hoQ9Hf8ws']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
[debug] Python version 3.10.12 (CPython) - Linux-5.15.0-94-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.35
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 6.1-static, ffprobe 6.1-static
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] T2hoQ9Hf8ws: Downloading webpage
WARNING: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 99] Cannot assign requested address>
[youtube] T2hoQ9Hf8ws: Downloading API JSON
ERROR: Unable to download API page: <urlopen error [Errno 99] Cannot assign requested address> (caused by URLError(OSError(99, 'Cannot assign requested address')))
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 634, in _request_webpage
return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2288, in urlopen
return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 519, in open
response = self._open(req, data)
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 536, in _open
result = self._call_chain(self.handle_open, protocol, protocol +
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 496, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 2735, in https_open
return self.do_open(functools.partial(
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 1351, in do_open
raise URLError(err)

Description

I have tried to install latest version of youtube-dl and want to use specific IPV4 with the command. I hit the above command mentioned in verbose log but then also received error.

[nikunjmishra1998]

FYI 45.77.52.190 is my static IP address.

[dirkf]

The specified address has to be one that's actually defined in your system, not just a random a.b.c.d (apart from anything else, responses wouldn't be able to reach you if that weren't so). Additional considerations apply if the program is running in a container (eg, Docker network_mode: host, as I read).

You say that 45.77.52.190 is the static address of your system, so there must be some reason why you'd need to specify it in --source-address ....

• If it's the WAN IP of your NAT-ed system, you would need port forwarding instead.

• Review this SO question.

• Try a wget command on some external Web page with --bind address 45.77.52.190 to check that there isn't a Python issue.

[dirkf]

Also, use the nightly build (#30839).

[dirkf]

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