https://www.youtube.com/watch?sns=em&v=tiOTso4RzUU&app=desktop

[Sologeoff]

Hi
As you see below this youtube video won't download
youtube-dl -v https://www.youtube.com/watch?sns=em&v=tiOTso4RzUU&app=desktop
[1] 15998
[2] 15999
sh-3.2# [debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?sns=em']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.02.19.2
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Darwin-14.1.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.5.4, ffprobe 2.5.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] watch?sns=em: Requesting header
[redirect] Following redirect to https://www.youtube.com/supported_browsers?next_url=%2F
[download] Downloading playlist: supported_browsers
[youtube:user] supported_browsers: Downloading video ids from 1 to 51
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request (caused by HTTPError()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 308, in _request_webpage
return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1589, in urlopen
return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 410, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 523, in http_response
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 448, in error
return self._call_chain(_args)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
result = func(_args)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 531, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

[1]- Done(1) youtube-dl -v https://www.youtube.com/watch?sns=em
[2]+ Done v=tiOTso4RzUU

[yan12125]

It's a shell trick. You need to enclose your URLs in double quotes or escape the special characters if they contain "?", "&", "=". For example:

youtube-dl -v "https://www.youtube.com/watch?sns=em&v=tiOTso4RzUU&app=desktop"

See #5221

[Sologeoff]

Hi Yen Chi Hsuan

Thank you so much for your prompt reply & information
It worked thank you
Kind Regards
Geoff

It's a shell trick. You need to enclose your URLs in double quotes or escape the special characters if they contain "?", "&", "=". For example:

youtube-dl -v "https://www.youtube.com/watch?sns=em&v=tiOTso4RzUU&app=desktop"
See #5221 #5221
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Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub #5348 (comment).

[Sologeoff]

Hi Yen Chi Hsuan

Thank you so much for your prompt reply & information
It worked thank you
Kind Regards
Geoff