ERROR: YouTube said: Invalid parameters.

[kid1412-net]

Thanks for coding such a great video download program. I tried to download this video but it's not working with latest version of youtube-dl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XSa-u2ZgRc

Could you please fix this error?

Best Regards,
Hai

[jaimeMF]

It works for me. Could you post the entire command and the output when you append the -v option?

[kid1412-net]

Thanks for your response. Here's the code I used:

youtube-dl -vt "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XSa-u2ZgRc" --format 18

I just want to save this video to .MP4 file.

[jaimeMF]

Well, I just copied it ant it works for me. Could you post the entire output you get, something like:

$youtube-dl -vt "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XSa-u2ZgRc" --format 18
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.02.25
[debug] Python version 2.7.2 - Darwin-11.4.2-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] 1XSa-u2ZgRc: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] 1XSa-u2ZgRc: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 1XSa-u2ZgRc: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: Prof. Harold W. Kroto at Naresuan part 2-1XSa-u2ZgRc.mp4
[download]  22.7% of 145.24M at  342.60k/s ETA 05:35

It may be your system, also check that the version is the latest, if not, run youtube-dl -U.

[Mariusz-W]

The problem is is still there also with the most recent version of youtube-dl. Verified on several computers in different operating systems.

On Centos:

youtube-dl -vt -F actVLwGDZQYk
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-vt', '-F', 'actVLwGDZQYk']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.05.23
[debug] Python version 3.3.0 - Linux-2.6.18-348.6.1.el5-i686-with-redhat-5.9-Final
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] actVLwGDZQYk: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] actVLwGDZQYk: Downloading video info webpage
ERROR: YouTube said: Invalid parameters.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py", line 462, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/opt/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py", line 99, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/opt/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py", line 564, in _real_extract
raise ExtractorError(u'YouTube said: %s' % video_info['reason'][0])
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: YouTube said: Invalid parameters.

On Cygwin (Windows 7):

youtube-dl -vt -F actVLwGDZQYk
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-vt', '-F', 'actVLwGDZQYk']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.05.23
[debug] Python version 2.7.3 - CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64-1.7.20-0.266-5-3-i686-32bit
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] actVLwGDZQYk: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] actVLwGDZQYk: Downloading video info webpage
ERROR: YouTube said: Invalid parameters.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/era/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/init.py", line 556, in _real_main
cwd=os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(file)))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 679, in init
errread, errwrite)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1249, in _execute_child
raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 20] Not a directory: '/home/era/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/era/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py", line 462, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/home/era/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py", line 99, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/home/era/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py", line 564, in _real_extract
raise ExtractorError(u'YouTube said: %s' % video_info['reason'][0])
ExtractorError: YouTube said: Invalid parameters.

On Windows 7:

F:>youtube-dl -vt -F actVLwGDZQYk
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.02.02
[debug] Python version 2.7.3 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] actVLwGDZQYk: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] actVLwGDZQYk: Downloading video info webpage
ERROR: YouTube said: Invalid parameters.
File "main.py", line 17, in
File "youtube_dl__init__.pyo", line 512, in main
File "youtube_dl__init__.pyo", line 496, in _real_main
File "youtube_dl\FileDownloader.pyo", line 505, in download
File "youtube_dl\InfoExtractors.pyo", line 93, in extract
File "youtube_dl\InfoExtractors.pyo", line 401, in _real_extract
File "youtube_dl\FileDownloader.pyo", line 230, in trouble

[jaimeMF]

Thanks for the report, I can reproduce it now.

[jaimeMF]

@Mariusz-W the actual video id is actVLwGDZQY, not actVLwGDZQYk, running youtube-dl -vt -F actVLwGDZQY works correctly.

I'm closing this, if the error continues to show, I'll reopen it.

[Mariusz-W]

Thanks! A pity that youtube-dl throws error so cryptic messages.

I have a suggestion: since the "wrong" YouTube locator "
http://youtube.com/watch?v=actVLwGDZQYk" was picked by clicking on a
YouTube link, it would be desirable to put a mechanism into `youtube-dl'
that tries to rectify this similarly to what YouTube does: I verified that
if I paste "http://youtube.com/watch?v=actVLwGDZQYk" in the navigation
toolbar in my browser, YouTube opens a correct URL.

MW

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 4:17 AM, Jaime Marquínez Ferrándiz <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

@Mariusz-W https://github.com/Mariusz-W the actual video id is
actVLwGDZQY, not actVLwGDZQYk, running youtube-dl -vt -F actVLwGDZQYworks correctly.

I'm closing this, if the error continues to show, I'll reopen it.

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[jaimeMF]

It's not a bad idea, the problem is that we extract the video id from the URL we receive and the following steps use the wrong id then. It can be easily solved if we only take the first 11 characters of the id, but I'm not sure if all the ids have this length.