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YouTube said: This video contains content from, who has blocked it from display on this website #6612

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HemangShah1 opened this issue Aug 19, 2015 · 1 comment

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@HemangShah1 HemangShah1 commented Aug 19, 2015

Unable to download this youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USAXbz1JALw. Able to view this video in browser only when signed in to YouTube.

I have the latest youtube-dl (2015.08.16.1).

user@user:/tmp$ /home/user/install/youtube-dl/youtube-dl -v http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USAXbz1JALw
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USAXbz1JALw']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.08.16.1
[debug] Python version 2.7.4 - Linux-3.8.0-29-generic-i686-with-Ubuntu-13.04-raring
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.5.3, ffprobe 2.5.3, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] USAXbz1JALw: Downloading webpage
[youtube] USAXbz1JALw: Downloading embed webpage
[youtube] USAXbz1JALw: Refetching age-gated info webpage
ERROR: USAXbz1JALw: YouTube said: This video contains content from Multi Screen Media, who has blocked it from display on this website.
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/user/install/youtube-dl/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 655, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/home/user/install/youtube-dl/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 287, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/home/user/install/youtube-dl/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1078, in _real_extract
expected=True, video_id=video_id)
ExtractorError: USAXbz1JALw: YouTube said: This video contains content from Multi Screen Media, who has blocked it from display on this website.
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@yan12125 yan12125 commented Aug 19, 2015

The approach youtube-dl uses for bypassing age restriction is not applicable for this video. You need to provide credentials via --username and --password or --netrc for downloading this video correctly.

@yan12125 yan12125 closed this Aug 19, 2015
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