googlevideo.com to video.google.com redirection

[umrashrf]

It seems googlevideo.com is changed to video.google.com which broke youtube-dl for me. I can't download youtube videos anymore.

Actually youtube.com is blocked in PK :) I used to download videos with youtube-dl and it worked even though it was blocked here. But now after change of domain it seems it's blocked for this utility as well.

[phihag]

Sorry, I don't follow. Why should video.google.com be relevant for YouTube downloads? For what it's worth, youtube-dl works fine for me:

$ youtube-dl  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] BaW_jenozKc: Downloading webpage
[youtube] BaW_jenozKc: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] BaW_jenozKc: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: youtube-dl test video ''_ä↭𝕐-BaW_jenozKc.mp4
[download] 100% of 1.53MiB in 00:00

Can you post the full output you get when using the -v option? Does it work if you use a VPN outside of the Pakistan?

[umrashrf]

If you use youtube-dl with -v (verbose) then you will see that it downloads it from googlevideo.com

[phihag]

Oh, that's no googlevideo.com, but one of the subdomains (and, at least that's my impression, unrelated to the google video service). And it's still something.googlevideo.com for me:

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.08.10
[debug] Python version 2.7.8 - Linux-3.0.101-x86_64-with-debian-jessie-sid
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] BaW_jenozKc: Downloading webpage
[youtube] BaW_jenozKc: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] BaW_jenozKc: Extracting video information
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'https://r3---sn-oxujvavbox-jboe.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?requiressl=yes&itag=22&expire=1409000116&upn=i-9pc9iw-u0&sparams=id%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Cmm%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cratebypass%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cupn%2Cexpire&fexp=901088%2C902408%2C927622%2C931330%2C931983%2C932625%2C934024%2C934030%2C936117%2C937432%2C942460%2C946023&initcwndbps=84875&key=yt5&sver=3&signature=72389315270F6AD741F95077FE59FEA9427BE437.D66810732E6F97B305B3B92DC186637D26B588D6&ms=au&id=o-ACyKmtCMnfsBOenCl6FKoVDuVnJSavuZYlBdwR5pZq1N&mv=u&mt=1408978192&mm=31&source=youtube&ratebypass=yes&ipbits=0&ip=2001%3A4d88%3A1ffc%3A3ee%3A%3A1'
[download] Destination: youtube-dl test video ''_ä↭𝕐-BaW_jenozKc.mp4
[download] 100% of 1.53MiB in 00:00

Sorry, but without your output of youtube-dl when called with -v, we cannot understand and therefore solve your problem. Since you seem unwilling to provide this output, I'm closing this issue. We'll reopen it once we get the actual output.

[umrashrf]

$  youtube-dl -v http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.08.10
[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] BaW_jenozKc: Downloading webpage
[youtube] BaW_jenozKc: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] BaW_jenozKc: Extracting video information
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'https://r7---sn-uh-30ael.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?sparams=id%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Cmm%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cratebypass%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cupn%2Cexpire&fexp=902408%2C915514%2C927622%2C927879%2C931983%2C932625%2C934024%2C934030%2C937427%2C938672%2C942461%2C946023%2C948513&itag=22&initcwndbps=161000&upn=rwHCCYlLAEg&ip=39.44.236.230&key=yt5&requiressl=yes&signature=C3F3412B6193D5E0818A51C2E446185AF7A97111.4E23EE75B82A951A80DA794EE9462C2D96D5E5EC&mm=31&ipbits=0&ratebypass=yes&mv=m&mt=1408978479&ms=au&id=o-AO9sxC2qI-j4iOJAzCIEjPFSft2RBTwDBiC2tONVrU3g&source=youtube&expire=1409000175&sver=3'
ERROR: unable to download video data: <urlopen error [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1022, in process_info
    success = dl(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 998, in dl
    return fd.download(name, info)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 291, in download
    return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 58, in real_download
    data = self.ydl.urlopen(request)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1231, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 400, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 418, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 378, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 598, in https_open
    return self.do_open(HTTPSConnectionV3, req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1177, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)
URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer>

[phihag]

This is almost certainly censorship by your ISP (I guess they didn't censor connections before). Unfortunately, there is little that youtube-dl can do to mitigate that.

You can look whether it's just DNS, although I highly doubt that: If host r7---sn-uh-30ael.googlevideo.com outputs something else than 210.187.22.210, you may be able to avoid the ban by choosing another DNS server.

Most likely, a VPN or proxy to a non-censoring country is your only option here. While I can offer you one personally (contact me in private, there is little that youtube-dl can do in general when faced with censorship.

[umrashrf]

Yes I understand it. I already use a VPN but was curious to know if it's part of youtube-dl. Thanks for your help!