ERROR: YouTube said: The uploader has not made this video available in your country. for ec2 east coast instances but not for ec2 west coast instances

[ghost]

I tried running the following two commands in an ec2 instance on the east coast
youtube-dl -F "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXSovfzyx28&feature=relmfu"
youtube-dl -F "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvgZkm1xWPE"
and get the following

[youtube] Setting language [youtube] dvgZkm1xWPE: Downloading video webpage [youtube] dvgZkm1xWPE: Downloading video info webpage ERROR: YouTube said: The uploader has not made this video available in your country.

However these two songs download just fine on west-1 and west-2 ec2 instances. Any ideas as to why this is happening?

[Plaque-fcc]

Well, have you tried instructing youtube-dl to authenticate using your .netrc or login/password?

This behaviour may relate to incorrect location detection by a gray IP, so manual selection at YT web page you could have performed before.

[ghost]

Hmm no, I haven't. I couldn't find the netrc file. I looked in the home directory of both root and ubuntu.

I was able to dl other videos from youtube from the same instance on the east coast, so I don't think youtube graylisted that IP.

[Plaque-fcc]

To be sure it's not related to youtube's choice, please try to feed
youtube-dl with your youtube login/password as seen in its manual page;
using ~/.netrc file is also not quite secure but some sort of tradition.

[FiloSottile]

Yeah, you should give a try to username/password, but if you fail, don't try too hard, as I am not sure about the status of the login mechanism ant it might be broken.
As for the root issue: the uploader might have copyright issues with the east coast country (?)

[sharathsrinivasa]

Hello,

I am facing the same error while downloading a playlist from the youtube.(Obviously because. I can't access that video).

So, is there an option where I can tell the youtube-dl to skip these videos when ever it encounters such errors?

PS : Sorry for hijacking the thread( Or Should I create a new thread for this issue)?

Thanks

[FiloSottile]

Does the -i option work? (Should, but might not)

[sharathsrinivasa]

Thanks for the quick reply.

[mpenkov]

Is this still a problem?

There has been no activity on this issue for over 5 years, so perhaps we can close it?

[rautamiekka]

Downloads from Finland (Europe) just fine.