Can't figure out how to fix this error I keep getting.

[spudzee]

I'm trying to make a program that downloads the audio from youtube videos and converts them to mp3 files. According to this site: http://willdrevo.com/downloading-youtube-and-soundcloud-audio-with-python-and-pandas/ I can do this with youtube-dl. I have this code (taken from the site previously mentioned): http://pastebin.com/6s5agE9f the problem I'm having is every time I run the program I get this error,"�[0;33mWARNING:�[0m LyhU7qwGuFA: writing DASH m4a. Only some players support this container. Install ffmpeg or avconv to fix this automatically." I attempted to resolve this by installing both ffmpeg and avconv. I tried using some commands I found that I thought might work to convert the videos to the proper format. But nothing has worked so far. I tried updating youtube-dl, but it didn't work either (same error when the code is run).

Anyone have ideas for why this isn't working? I'm on OS X (macbook pro). And the version of python I'm using is 3.4.2.

[jaimeMF]

Post the full output you get with the --verbose option

[spudzee]

here's the entire log of what I did in IDLE and the stuff it spit out: http://pastebin.com/VLrjJhMN

I understand that my initial comment didn't have sufficient information, so here's some more information: The program is actually producing files on my computer, they're just not in mp3 format like I want them to be. This is what they look like in the folder: http://i.imgur.com/MzHDFII.png when I try to get info about them they don't appear to have any type of file extension. The error message produced by the program every time I run it says installing ffmpeg or avconv would fix this "automatically." But installing them clearly hasn't.

I don't really understand how to use ffmpeg. So I just copied and pasted commands for it into Terminal (mac equivalent of command prompt) hoping it would fix this issue somehow. For reasons I'm unable to reproduce the commands I typed in.

My question is this: to get these files to my desired format (mp3) do I need to change the code or do I need to use Terminal to change their format? If I do indeed need to use ffmpeg in Terminal, could you please tell me what command(s) I need to use to fix this?

[jaimeMF]

full output with the --verbose options means you have to either add this option when you call youtube-dl from the IDLE and capture both stdout and stderr, or run youtube-dl --verbose OTHER_OPTIONS URL, you should see something like this:

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [<options>]
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.05.04
[debug] Git HEAD: 5268a05
[debug] Python version 3.4.3 - Darwin-13.4.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: avconv 11.3, avprobe 11.3, ffmpeg 2.6.2, ffprobe 2.6.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}

to get these files to my desired format (mp3) do I need to change the code or do I need to use Terminal to change their format

I guess you are setting the output template (-o option) to something like %(id)s, you have to use %(id)s.%(ext)s.

[spudzee]

before I messed around with -v I took the advice of your 'guess' and changed the output template to %(id)s.%(ext)s so that the code looks like this: http://pastebin.com/wBV6DsYd

When I run the code it produced these types of files: http://i.imgur.com/xCfqwiR.png but the issue is that the code get's stuck, and never progresses past a certain percent. I had a hard time copying the stuff in the IDLE because it kept spitting out the same message, so I took a screen grab: http://i.imgur.com/7BTXgnC.png

I can't parse exactly what you mean by -v. I don't know how to "add" youtube-dl --verbose OTHER_OPTIONS URL as an option when I run the program in IDLE. I'm an idiot, I don't understand - I'm not very good at using IDLE. If you could be a bit more precise about exactly how to go about doing -v that would be great. Thanks for helping me btw.

EDIT: I don't think the program is getting stuck because internet lag btw. My internet seems to work fine while the program was running.

[spudzee]

Figured out how to use -v. I didn't realize I had to put it into Terminal. it spit out this: http://pastebin.com/P0WUnJrT

[jaimeMF]

Try with this code and post the output:

import youtube_dl

options = {
    'verbose': True,
    'format': 'bestaudio/best',
    'outtmpl': '%(id)s.%(ext)s',
    'noplaylist' : True,
    'postprocessors': [{
        'key': 'FFmpegExtractAudio',
        'preferredcodec': 'mp3',
    }],
}
URL = 'test:youtube' #input('video url: ')
with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(options) as ydl:
    ydl.download([URL])

( extractaudio and audioformat are not valid options, see https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py for all the parameters)

[spudzee]

I ran the code you posted, it produced this: http://pastebin.com/3nA2W36w

[spudzee]

I just noticed the code you gave me produces working audio files. Since my issue is basically resolved, I'm gonna close this thread