TypeError: %d format: a number is required, not float

[staticanime]

Youtube-DL Version: 2016.01.15

Platform: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS (Server)

Youtube-DL Command: youtube-dl --playlist-reverse --extract-audio --audio-format m4a --embed-thumbnail -o "%(uploader)s/%(autonumber)s.%(title)s.%(ext)s" --autonumber-size 3 --retries infinite --restrict-filenames https://www.youtube.com/user/DiavelNN/videos

Youtube-DL Traceback: [download] Downloading video 17 of 580
[youtube] nCr1lW67uEQ: Downloading webpage
[youtube] nCr1lW67uEQ: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] nCr1lW67uEQ: Extracting video information
[youtube] nCr1lW67uEQ: Downloading DASH manifest
[youtube] nCr1lW67uEQ: Downloading thumbnail ...
[youtube] nCr1lW67uEQ: Writing thumbnail to: Diversity_Promotions/017.Auburn_-_Perfect_Two_Vau_Boy_Remix.jpg
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
"main", fname, loader, pkg_name)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
exec code in run_globals
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/main.py", line 19, in
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/init.py", line 410, in main
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/init.py", line 400, in _real_main
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1677, in download
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 676, in extract_info
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 729, in process_ie_result
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 676, in extract_info
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 837, in process_ie_result
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 729, in process_ie_result
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 676, in extract_info
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 722, in process_ie_result
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1347, in process_video_result
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1609, in process_info
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1551, in dl
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 342, in download
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 125, in real_download
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 298, in report_retry
TypeError: %d format: a number is required, not float

Can anyone advise on this error please, or if there's a way to have youtube-dl skip & continue? Trying to download music from the above Youtube channel as m4a, with thumbnails embedded

[yan12125]

--retries accepts positive integers only.

[staticanime]

Thank you, closing issue

[jaimeMF]

It's documented as supported:

-R, --retries RETRIES
              Number of retries (default is 10), or "infinite".

so I have fixed the error.

Note that it will print [download] Got server HTTP error. Retrying (attempt 1 of inf), maybe it could use ∞, what do you think?

[yan12125]

Sorry for the mistake. For the output format, just skipping the 'of xxx' part looks good to me:

Retrying (attempt 1)
Retrying (attempt 2)
Retrying (attempt 3)

[jaimeMF]

I don't have any preference, feel free to change it.