Error no route to host and timeout

[TarekSalama]

Hello,

I've been getting these errors recently.

"ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 65] No route to host> (caused by URLError(error(65, 'No route to host'),))"

and

"ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 60] Operation timed out> (caused by URLError(error(60, 'Operation timed out'),))"

Any idea what's causing them?

I can watch Youtube normally.

[dstftw]

Post the full output of youtube-dl when run with --verbose option.

[TarekSalama]

Okay.

I tried to download this link by copying and pasting it into the batchvideos.txt I created

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlYC8gDvutc

Here's the output
Mac:~ tareksalama$ sudo youtube-dl Password: youtube-dl is up-to-date (2016.01.29) [youtube] WlYC8gDvutc: Downloading webpage ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 65] No route to host> (caused by URLError(error(65, 'No route to host'),)) ERROR: u'\u2014V' is not a valid URL. Set --default-search "ytsearch" (or run youtube-dl "ytsearch:—V" ) to search YouTube

And here's the config file in case you need to look at it

—V -U --no-overwrites --no-cache-dir --restrict-filenames --ignore-errors --batch-file /Volumes/GreenDisk/PSTUFF/Youtube/batchvideos.txt -o /Volumes/GreenDisk/PSTUFF/Youtube/downloads/%(uploader)s/%(title)s_%(uploader)s_%(id)s.%(ext)s

[TarekSalama]

I tried once more and I got this as well

ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 60] Operation timed out> (caused by URLError(error(60, 'Operation timed out'),)) ERROR: u'\u2014V' is not a valid URL. Set --default-search "ytsearch" (or run youtube-dl "ytsearch:—V" ) to search YouTube

[dstftw]

—V -U --no-overwrites --no-cache-dir --restrict-filenames --ignore-errors --batch-file /Volumes/GreenDisk/PSTUFF/Youtube/batchvideos.txt -o /Volumes/GreenDisk/PSTUFF/Youtube/downloads/%(uploader)s/%(title)s_%(uploader)s_%(id)s.%(ext)s

First character of your command —V -U ... is not a dash (-). Moreover even if it were a dash - there is no such option -V. Remove it. Also remove -U - this is used for updating.

[TarekSalama]

Why did you close my issue?

Well I replaced it with a dash and I still got the same error.

By the way Youtube-dl has been working completely fine for me for months. I've been having those errors for the past few days.

[dstftw]

1. Re-read my post.
2. Post the full output with all the [debug] ... lines for command without -V and -U.

[TarekSalama]

Oh sorry. I misread the -V part.

Okay here's the output:
[debug] System config: [u'-v', u'--no-overwrites', u'--no-cache-dir', u'--restrict-filenames', u'--ignore-errors', u'--batch-file', u'/Volumes/GreenDisk/PSTUFF/Youtube/batchvideos.txt', u'-o', u'/Volumes/GreenDisk/PSTUFF/Youtube/downloads/%(uploader)s/%(title)s_%(uploader)s_%(id)s.%(ext)s'] [debug] User config: [] [debug] Command-line args: [] [debug] Batch file urls: [u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlYC8gDvutc'] [debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8 [debug] youtube-dl version 2016.01.29 [debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Darwin-15.2.0-x86_64-i386-64bit [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.6.3, ffprobe 2.6.3 [debug] Proxy map: {} [youtube] WlYC8gDvutc: Downloading webpage ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 60] Operation timed out> (caused by URLError(error(60, 'Operation timed out'),)) File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 352, in _request_webpage return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request) File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1904, in urlopen return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 431, in open response = self._open(req, data) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 449, in _open '_open', req) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 830, in https_open req, **kwargs) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1197, in do_open raise URLError(err)

[dstftw]

Operation timed out means an issue with your network connection. Are you using proxy in your browser? Add --call-home to command line and post the output.

[TarekSalama]

I'm not using any proxies or VPNs. I'm surprised tho since Youtube is working fine, actually better than it used to be.

Here's the output as you requested:

[debug] System config: [u'-v', u'--call-home', u'--no-overwrites', u'--no-cache-dir', u'--restrict-filenames', u'--ignore-errors', u'--batch-file', u'/Volumes/GreenDisk/PSTUFF/Youtube/batchvideos.txt', u'-o', u'/Volumes/GreenDisk/PSTUFF/Youtube/downloads/%(uploader)s/%(title)s_%(uploader)s_%(id)s.%(ext)s'] [debug] User config: [] [debug] Command-line args: [] [debug] Batch file urls: [u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlYC8gDvutc'] [debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8 [debug] youtube-dl version 2016.01.29 [debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Darwin-15.2.0-x86_64-i386-64bit [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.6.3, ffprobe 2.6.3 [debug] Proxy map: {} [debug] Public IP address: 197.38.172.217 [youtube] WlYC8gDvutc: Downloading webpage ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 65] No route to host> (caused by URLError(error(65, 'No route to host'),)) File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 352, in _request_webpage return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request) File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1904, in urlopen return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 431, in open response = self._open(req, data) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 449, in _open '_open', req) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 830, in https_open req, **kwargs) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1197, in do_open raise URLError(err)

[dstftw]

Post the output of curl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlYC8gDvutc.

[TarekSalama]

Mac:~ tareksalama$ curl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlYC8gDvutc curl: (7) Failed to connect to www.youtube.com port 443: Operation timed out

That's really surprising. I can view the video without any problems on Chrome. Any idea what could be causing it to get a timeout even though it loads fine in Chrome and pretty much Safari and on all of my mobile devices?

Thanks

[TarekSalama]

Okay. I tried connecting through a VPN and it worked all fine. I seriously have no idea what my ISP could be doing. I can watch Youtube videos at full speed yet I can't download them.
I know this my be way off the scope, but do you have any idea what may be going on?
Other than that, I'm really thankful for your help. I guess you can close the issue. Thanks again.

[dstftw]

You may be using for example some YouTube-unblock Chrome extension.

[TarekSalama]

Nope not at all. And I've tested it on my iPad and Nexus 5 as well. Works well.