ERROR: Got a malformed response from YouTube API

[bekacho]

I got this error while trying to download a playlist.

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-A', 'http://www.youtube.com/course?list=EC2F07DBCDCC01493A', '-v']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.04.18
[debug] Python version 2.7.3 - Darwin-12.3.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] PL EC2F07DBCDCC01493A: Downloading page #1
[youtube] PL EC2F07DBCDCC01493A: Downloading page #2
[youtube] PL EC2F07DBCDCC01493A: Downloading page #3
[youtube] PL EC2F07DBCDCC01493A: Downloading page #4
[youtube] PL EC2F07DBCDCC01493A: Downloading page #5
ERROR: Got a malformed response from YouTube API
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube/youtube_dl/init.py", line 502, in _real_main
cwd=os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(file)))
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 679, in init
errread, errwrite)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1249, in _execute_child
raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 20] Not a directory: '/usr/local/bin/youtube/youtube_dl'

[jaimeMF]

Same as #782, fixed in master. Wait for the next update or install from source.

[bekacho]

Could not build from source in the same OS.

downgraded to 2013.02.25 until next update.

[jaimeMF]

Why can't you build from source?

[phihag]

Sorry, I wasn't aware that the master contained significant fixes. You can now update to 2013.04.21.

[bekacho]

@phihag Thank you for the quick fix !!

Happily running the latest version now 👍 !