Error

[kesavanm]

When I try with this , I'm getting the following error. Did I miss something?

priya@localhost:~$ /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IutLHjlV4_k
[youtube] Setting language

WARNING: unable to set language: <urlopen error [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution>
[youtube] IutLHjlV4_k: Downloading video webpage
ERROR: unable to download video webpage: <urlopen error [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution>
priya@localhost:~$

[rg3]

On Saturday, January 05, 2013 08:26:32 Kesavan Muthuvel wrote:

When I try with this , I'm getting the following error. Did I miss
something?

priya@localhost:~$ /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IutLHjlV4_k [youtube] Setting language

WARNING: unable to set language: <urlopen error [Errno -3] Temporary
failure in name resolution> [youtube] IutLHjlV4_k: Downloading video
webpage
ERROR: unable to download video webpage: <urlopen error [Errno -3]
Temporary failure in name resolution> priya@localhost:~$

The error message is not displayed in the issue tracker but I received
it in the mail notification. It's

"urlopen error [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution"

My guess is some kind of DNS problem outside youtube-dl.

[FiloSottile]

[Edited the issue description to add code tags, thanks @rg3]

Almost sure this is a networking problem.
Please try also
dig www.youtube.com
ping www.youtube.com
curl www.youtube.com

[kesavanm]

That's right!
Seems my network is dead slow. Works fine now.

Thanks for your support.

priya@localhost:$ killall vlc
priya@localhost:$ bin/muzic
priya@localhost:~$ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj_i7YqDwJA
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] qj_i7YqDwJA: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] qj_i7YqDwJA: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] qj_i7YqDwJA: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: qj_i7YqDwJA.flv
[download] 8.8% of 56.84M at 23.41k/s ETA 37:47

[FiloSottile]

Great!
You're welcome, have a nice day.

[phihag]

We may want to look into hooking in to the DNS resolution process in Python, in order to someday provide a custom fallback or at least better error messages. That way, we could also work around the DNS issues on travis.

[michu1989]

I had a similar problem.

youtube-dl https://youtu.be/i50jx4pMGTw
[youtube] i50jx4pMGTw: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution> (caused by URLError(gaierror(-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution'),))

and

youtube-dl https://youtu.be/i50jx4pMGTw
[youtube] i50jx4pMGTw: Downloading webpage
[youtube] i50jx4pMGTw: Downloading video info webpage
ERROR: i50jx4pMGTw: "token" parameter not in video info for unknown reason; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

I am using ubuntu on WSL Windows 10. At the beginning I installed the program by:
sudo apt-get install youtube-dl

The attempt to download any movie ended with the above errors.

I found this solution on the Ubuntu forum.

 sudo apt-get remove youtube-dl
sudo apt-get install python-pip  
sudo pip install youtube-dl  

It worked for me.

[Nottt]

I think most people coming here from google only wants to know if there's a flag or something to just retry or keep retrying for X amount of time.

When you are doing big downloads, or a playlist, it's really annoying if this happens and you waste everything you have already downloaded