Can't download embedded video

[Llorx]

This last weekend I recorded some Live events. YouTube has a problem where not saved them like other events, and entering the link wont show the live event but an "event has ended" message: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsmdDsKjzN8

The thing is that the embed link works: https://www.youtube.com/embed/CsmdDsKjzN8 so I thought that is time to download the video to not lose it, just in case YouTUbe definetely deletes it.

The problem comes here. I can't download the vídeo altough it can be watched with the embed code, so I suggest to add a second system to download videos where it uses the same method as the YT embed code instead of the YT main one.

I mean, if the main method fails, use this second method. The first method gives error 400.

I put log files of what I get when downloading:

youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/embed/CsmdDsKjzN8 -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'https://www.youtube.com/embed/CsmdDsKjzN8', u'-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.05.10
[debug] Python version 2.6.9 - Linux-3.14.35-28.38.amzn1.x86_64-x86_64-with-glibc2.2.5
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg git-2015-03-18-f832374, ffprobe git-2015-03-18-f832374, rtmpdump 2.3
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] CsmdDsKjzN8: Downloading webpage
[youtube] CsmdDsKjzN8: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] CsmdDsKjzN8: Extracting video information
[youtube] CsmdDsKjzN8: Downloading formats manifest
[youtube] CsmdDsKjzN8: Downloading DASH manifest
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://r10---sn-5hn7sned.googlevideo.com/videoplayback/id/CsmdDsKjzN8.1/itag/135/source/yt_live_broadcast/requiressl/yes/pmbypass/yes/gcr/de/playlist_type/CLEAN/ratebypass/yes/cmbypass/yes/mime/video%2Fmp4/live/1/gir/yes/fexp/900220,9407117,9407712,9407898,9407991,9408142,9408594,9408706,9408710,9408868,9412906,9413011,9413341,945137,948124,952612,952637,952642/upn/GLlyGW8FK0o/sver/3/key/cms1/signature/43A5B1735789821A2A90F2B225831383AC5A561E.31DA0E4D92BFB481EC2EC6A9BAA12399EC5CD330/ip/52.28.90.107/ipbits/0/expire/1431652818/sparams/cmbypass,expire,gcr,gir,id,ip,ipbits,itag,live,mime,mm,mn,ms,mv,pl,playlist_type,pmbypass,ratebypass,requiressl,source/mm/32/mn/sn-5hn7sned/ms/lv/mt/1431630987/mv/u/pl/20'
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1411, in process_info
partial_success = dl(fname, new_info)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1359, in dl
return fd.download(name, info)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 342, in download
return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 59, in real_download
data = self.ydl.urlopen(request)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1710, in urlopen
return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 397, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 510, in http_response
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 435, in error
return self._call_chain(_args)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 369, in _call_chain
result = func(_args)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 518, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
HTTPError: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request

[yan12125]

@Llorx It's indeed a youtub-dl bug. Try -f best as a temporary workaround. For example:

youtube-dl -f best "https://www.youtube.com/embed/CsmdDsKjzN8" -v

For developers: The DASH manifest of this video uses SegmentURL element, which is not supported by youtube-dl yet.

[Llorx]

Perfect! It works!! Thank you :-)

[jaimeMF]

Fixed by #5886, will work in the next version.