Error : Unable to download API page ; please guy, can someone help me ? thanks 1000k in advance

[windofocean78]

youtube-dl -F youtube-dl --verbose -F --proxy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nF2BAfWUEg
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-F', 'youtube-dl', '--verbose', '-F', '--proxy', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nF2BAfWUEg']
[debug] Encodings: locale 'UTF-8', fs 'UTF-8', out 'UTF-8', pref: 'UTF-8'
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.02.17
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Linux-3.13.0-24-generic-i686-athlon-with-LinuxMint-17-qiana
[debug] Proxy map: {u'http': 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nF2BAfWUEg', u'https': 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nF2BAfWUEg'}
[youtube:search] query "youtube-dl": Downloading page 1
ERROR: Unable to download API page: ''; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update.
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 191, in _request_webpage
return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1157, in urlopen
return self._opener.open(req)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 404, in open
response = self._open(req, data)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 422, in _open
'_open', req)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 572, in https_open
return self.do_open(HTTPSConnectionV3, req)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1181, in do_open
h.request(req.get_method(), req.get_selector(), req.data, headers)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 979, in request
self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1013, in _send_request
self.endheaders(body)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 975, in endheaders
self._send_output(message_body)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 835, in _send_output
self.send(msg)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 797, in send
self.connect()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 564, in connect
self._tunnel()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 758, in _tunnel
(version, code, message) = response._read_status()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 379, in _read_status
raise BadStatusLine(line)

[yan12125]

There are two problems. First your command is incorrect. I should be:

youtube-dl --verbose -F --proxy some.proxy.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nF2BAfWUEg

Second you are using an out-dated version (2014.02.17). Following update instructions to update your copy.