error with youtube search if running python code directly

[gkreidl]

I prefer to use youtube-dl directly from python code on the Raspberry Pi for speed resaons (see http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=83763 ).
This approach does not work with youtube search (but using the binary it works!). Verbose output:
youtube-dl -g --verbose 'https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=raspberry+pi'
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-g', '--verbose', 'https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=raspberry+pi']
[debug] Encodings: locale 'UTF-8', fs 'UTF-8', out 'UTF-8', pref: 'UTF-8'
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.12.26
[debug] Python version 2.7.3 - Linux-3.12.25+-armv6l-with-debian-7.6
[debug] Proxy map: {}
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update.
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 182, in _request_webpage
return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1070, in urlopen
return self._opener.open(req)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 407, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 520, in http_response
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 445, in error
return self._call_chain(_args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 379, in _call_chain
result = func(_args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 528, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

[phihag]

Your version of youtube-dl is outdated (plus, you seem not to actually have the linked post), since youtube-dl seems to be installed with apt-get or pip.

Try sudo apt-get remove -y youtube-dl; sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/python*/dist-packages/youtube_dl to remove the oudated apt-get version of youtube-dl. After then, simply follow the instructions given:

git clone git://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl
(cd youtube-dl && git pull)  # If you already have youtube-dl installed in the current directory
sudo ln -sf $(pwd)/youtube-dl/bin/youtube-dl /usr/bin/youtube-dl

After that, you can update with a simple git pull. In the youtube-dl directory.

[gkreidl]

I have a version from git and updated it with git pull

[phihag]

Excellent! So does it work now?

[gkreidl]

no. I was using that git version all along.

[phihag]

Can you humor me and post the output you get when running

sudo apt-get remove -y youtube-dl
sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/python*/dist-packages/youtube_dl 
hash -r
youtube-dl --version 

[gkreidl]

Problem solved. I had an old version in the python dist directory. After removing that and creating a link to main.py it's now working. I'll update my tutorial in the Raspberry Pi forum accordingly.
Thanks for your help.