'urgent issue' - Playback on other websites has been disabled by the video owner

[ghost]

It's the first time I see such message. I searched issues and found no other.

Would be great if you fix that fast.

youtube-dl 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfscjnE2MWM'
[youtube] TfscjnE2MWM: Downloading webpage
[youtube] TfscjnE2MWM: Downloading embed webpage
[youtube] TfscjnE2MWM: Refetching age-gated info webpage
ERROR: TfscjnE2MWM: YouTube said: Watch this video on YouTube.
Playback on other websites has been disabled by the video owner.

youtube-dl -v
[debug] System config: ['-t', '--restrict-filenames']
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.01.02
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Darwin-14.0.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.5.2, ffprobe 2.5.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {'http': 'http://localhost:8118', 'https': 'http://localhost:8118'}
Usage: youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]
youtube-dl: error: you must provide at least one URL

do you know any workaround for download?

youtube-dl -g 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfscjnE2MWM' --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0"
ERROR: TfscjnE2MWM: YouTube said: Watch this video on YouTube.
Playback on other websites has been disabled by the video owner.

[jaimeMF]

Duplicate of #4162, you could try using your youtube account with the --username option.

[ghost]

thanks. Works.

here a short howto:

youtube-dl -n 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfscjnE2MWM'
[youtube] Downloading login page
[youtube] Logging in
[youtube] TfscjnE2MWM: Downloading webpage
[youtube] TfscjnE2MWM: Extracting video information
[youtube] TfscjnE2MWM: Downloading DASH manifest
[download] Destination: xxxxxxxx.mp4
[download] 100% of 2.41MiB in 00:01

cat .netrc
machine youtube
login xxx@gmail.com
password xxx

[ghost]

To add to CiscoPress's howto, here's some info on the .netrc file format which youtube-dl will use when given the -n flag. Basically it's a plaintext file in your home directory with the username and password needed.

Make sure you set the privileges with chmod 600 ~/.netrc

You can also use authentication flags from the command line, but be careful about your password ending up in your shell history.

[zenaan]

Doesn't work for me (TM)(C)(R):

$ cat ~/.netrc
machine youtube
login blah@gmail.com
password blahblah

$ youtube-dl -v http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ujz8dY7EAE
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ujz8dY7EAE']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.03.28
[debug] Python version 2.7.9 - Linux-3.16.0-4-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-8.0
[debug] exe versions: rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] _ujz8dY7EAE: Downloading webpage
[youtube] _ujz8dY7EAE: Downloading embed webpage
[youtube] _ujz8dY7EAE: Refetching age-gated info webpage
ERROR: _ujz8dY7EAE: YouTube said: Watch this video on YouTube.
Playback on other websites has been disabled by the video owner.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/justa/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 651, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/home/justa/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 275, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/home/justa/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 878, in _real_extract
expected=True, video_id=video_id)
ExtractorError: _ujz8dY7EAE: YouTube said: Watch this video on YouTube.
Playback on other websites has been disabled by the video owner.

Happy to run any further tests required.

[ghost]

Use "-n" argument

youtube-dl --help | grep netrc
-n, --netrc use .netrc authentication data

[m-porto]

-n argument does not work for me

$ cat ~/.netrc
machine youtube
login xxxx@gmail.com
password xxxx

$ youtube-dl -n -c -v "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ujz8dY7EAE"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-n', u'-c', u'-v', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ujz8dY7EAE']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.07.21
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Linux-3.16.0-4-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-stretch-sid
[debug] exe versions: avconv 2.6.2, avprobe 2.6.2, ffmpeg 2.6.2, ffprobe 2.6.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Downloading login page
[youtube] Logging in
[youtube] _ujz8dY7EAE: Downloading webpage
[youtube] _ujz8dY7EAE: Downloading embed webpage
[youtube] _ujz8dY7EAE: Refetching age-gated info webpage
ERROR: _ujz8dY7EAE: YouTube said: Watch this video on YouTube.
Playback on other websites has been disabled by the video owner.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 656, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 275, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 985, in _real_extract
expected=True, video_id=video_id)
ExtractorError: _ujz8dY7EAE: YouTube said: Watch this video on YouTube.
Playback on other websites has been disabled by the video owner.

[ghost]

are you on a *NIX system?
what are the perms of .netrc? did you use your gmail account? not xxx@gmail.com?

[m-porto]

Debian testing. File permissions for .netrc: 600, running the program with the same user who is owner of the file. And using a valid login and password (I can watch the video on the browser)
I updated to last version (2015.08.09) with the same result

[gnaag]

The solution no longer works for me. For video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNDIrIyvQFk I have passed login through .netrc (It worked), but still it claims I cannot download the video due to owner's restrictions on embedding.

youtube-dl -n https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNDIrIyvQFk
[youtube] Downloading login page
[youtube] Logging in
Type 2-step verification code and press [Return]: 
[youtube] Submitting TFA code
[youtube] UNDIrIyvQFk: Downloading webpage
[youtube] UNDIrIyvQFk: Downloading embed webpage
[youtube] UNDIrIyvQFk: Refetching age-gated info webpage
ERROR: UNDIrIyvQFk: YouTube said: Watch this video on YouTube.
Playback on other websites has been disabled by the video owner.