[youtube] <urlopen error [SSL: SSLV3_ALERT_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE] sslv3 alert handshake failure (_ssl.c:598)>

[kamilregulski]

ERROR: unable to download video data: urlopen error [SSL: SSLV3_ALERT_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE] sslv3 alert handshake failure (_ssl.c:598)

[phihag]

Can you post the entire output you get when you pass in the -v option? Without that, we cannot help you.

[kamilregulski]

ERROR: unable to download video data: <urlopen error [SSL: SSLV3_ALERT_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE] sslv3 alert handshake failure (_ssl.c:598)>
root@s1:/home/admin# youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXd9QjFYWbw
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] Confirming age
[youtube] hXd9QjFYWbw: Downloading webpage
[youtube] hXd9QjFYWbw: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] hXd9QjFYWbw: Extracting video information
ERROR: unable to download video data: <urlopen error [SSL: SSLV3_ALERT_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE] sslv3 alert handshake failure (_ssl.c:598)>
root@s1:/home/admin# youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXd9QjFYWbw --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXd9QjFYWbw', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.09.12
[debug] Python version 3.4.1 - Linux-3.2.13-grsec-xxxx-grs-ipv6-64-x86_64-with-debian-6.0.6
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] Confirming age
[youtube] hXd9QjFYWbw: Downloading webpage
[youtube] hXd9QjFYWbw: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] hXd9QjFYWbw: Extracting video information
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://r1---sn-5hn7snlz.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?ipbits=0&requiressl=yes&initcwndbps=2499000&fexp=901440%2C927622%2C931983%2C932404%2C932623%2C934024%2C934030%2C946023%2C947209%2C953801%2C953901&signature=75E26A84ACECF4D15519EE33542A26575A2D1C.2DB0A1077830F118C76F11BF6F6C8352BA3FB7B5&ratebypass=yes&sparams=id%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Cmm%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cratebypass%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cupn%2Cexpire&sver=3&id=o-AMqREz7SCozHi9Xc2Lm8Id9zve_5Bj4Z-SjP3ufYJfoI&expire=1410536435&mm=31&upn=6x3MCKT4RH8&mt=1410514739&itag=22&key=yt5&ip=****&ms=au&source=youtube&mv=m'
ERROR: unable to download video data: <urlopen error [SSL: SSLV3_ALERT_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE] sslv3 alert handshake failure (_ssl.c:598)>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/python341/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 1189, in do_open
h.request(req.get_method(), req.selector, req.data, headers)
File "/usr/local/python341/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 1090, in request
self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
File "/usr/local/python341/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 1128, in _send_request
self.endheaders(body)
File "/usr/local/python341/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 1086, in endheaders
self._send_output(message_body)
File "/usr/local/python341/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 924, in _send_output
self.send(msg)
File "/usr/local/python341/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 859, in send
self.connect()
File "/usr/local/python341/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 1230, in connect
server_hostname=sni_hostname)
File "/usr/local/python341/lib/python3.4/ssl.py", line 364, in wrap_socket
_context=self)
File "/usr/local/python341/lib/python3.4/ssl.py", line 578, in init
self.do_handshake()
File "/usr/local/python341/lib/python3.4/ssl.py", line 805, in do_handshake
self._sslobj.do_handshake()
ssl.SSLError: [SSL: SSLV3_ALERT_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE] sslv3 alert handshake failure (_ssl.c:598)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1035, in process_info
success = dl(filename, info_dict)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1011, in dl
return fd.download(name, info)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 291, in download
return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 66, in real_download
data = self.ydl.urlopen(request)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1244, in urlope
return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
File "/usr/local/python341/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 455, in open
response = self._open(req, data)
File "/usr/local/python341/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 473, in _ope
'_open', req)
File "/usr/local/python341/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 433, in _cal
result = func(*args)
File "/usr/local/python341/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 1230, in htt
context=self._context, check_hostname=self.check_hostname)
File "/usr/local/python341/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 1192, in do
raise URLError(err)
urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [SSL: SSLV3_ALERT_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE] sslv3

[phihag]

Thank you for the details. This bug is somewhat puzzling since I cannot reproduce the behavior on a number of very similar systems. Can you provide instructions on how to set up this system? How did you compile python? Does the problem occur with the debian Python as well? Can you reproduce the problem with a different ISP?

By the way, you really shouldn't be running youtube-dl as root, except to update it.

[sometoby]

I'm experiencing the same problem on a Windows 7 box with Python 3.4.0.
Console output with verbose enabled: http://pastebin.com/dSMcbg8z

[Jamesc359]

I'm getting the same error as well. http://pastebin.com/c3ZvzKew

[sometoby]

Explicitely using Python 2.7 fixed the problem for me.

[AlisterH]

Explicitely using Python 2.7 fixed the problem for me.

Worked for me too.

[Jamesc359]

This is just a wild shot in the dark, but I suspect it's caused because Youtube doesn't like one of the ciphers Python is choosing to connect with (ADH-RC4-MD5?). I've upgraded my version of Python to 3.4.1 and I am no longer receiving the error. :-)

[graudeejs]

Using python 3.4.1 fixed this issue for me as well (on FreeBSD)

[MikeCol]

I'm getting this error, too.

Tumblr has started to deliver some elements via https.

As proposed above, I tried different python versions, but got the following errors:

python2.7

 <urlopen error [Errno 8] _ssl.c:510: EOF occurred in violation of protocol>

python3.4.0/3.4.2

<urlopen error [SSL: SSLV3_ALERT_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE] sslv3 alert handshake failure (_ssl.c:600)>

I first encountered this error when trying to download the content of an Iframe (i.e. additional html source) using self._download_webpage.

During my test I tried to simply download it using urllib.request.urlopen(...).read() (Python 3) which did work without any errors. Which in turn means that the additional code introduced by youtube-dl for secure downloads is at least partially to blame.

I tried to pinpoint it further, but I got lost... (Is there a way to single step it via PyCharm?)

[gak1234]

Hello, i have this SSLV3_ALERT_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE error when running the Windows executable. Is it compiled with an old version of python or something? How can I get it to download thumbnails (soundcloud in my case)?

I tried installing Python 2.7 and 3.4 but I don't think that makes any difference with a compiled EXE.

[yan12125]

@gak1234 I guess you have encountered the same problem as #5366. Yes soundcloud thumbnails is available only with Python 2.7.9 and 3.x, while the provided youtube-dl.exe is bundled with Python 2.7.8. You can try to download the whole source zip and run youtube-dl with:

python.exe youtube-dl/__main__.py

Next time please post your problem in a separate issue. It's likely that the problem is quite different for different sites. Also, remember to include the full verbose log

[yan12125]

@MikeCol Could you open a new issue and paste the full verbose log? It helps us on tracking problems.

[gak1234]

@yan12125 Sorry, will open a separate issue next time. I was able to work around the soundcloud thumbnail SSLv3 issue by installing Python 3.4.x and running:

pip install --upgrade youtube_dl

this command created \Scripts\youtube-dl.exe (only 90kb ?) with a python icon. That EXE has no problem with SSLv3 thumbnail soundcloud URLs!

[TheNotary]

I had the above problem too on Linux Mint. I installed through apt-get, but thanks to @gak1234's suggestion, I removed the apt-get version and used pip3 install --upgrade youtube_dl and things are working well again. It might be worth investigating Ubuntu/ Linux mint package version Inst youtube-dl (2014.02.17-1 Ubuntu:14.04/trusty [all]) to see if somethings broken. My inputs were youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUSTjTBA8f8 btw