Can’t Change Download Location

[RedSoxFan04]

I made sure to follow the instructions, but youtube-dl isn’t downloading videos to the location I specified. It creates a whole new directory in my user folder and puts the downloaded videos there. This is the command I used: -o “/user/Jfblagden/Movies/youtube-dl/%(title)s-%.%(ext)s” The other problem is that it puts “-%(ext)s” at the end of the video’s name instead of the file extension, which in this case should be “.mp4”. Is this a bug, or is my syntax wrong?

[dstftw]

Post the full output of youtube-dl when run with -v, i.e. add -v flag to your command line, copy the whole output and post it in the issue body wrapped in ``` for better formatting. It should look similar to this:

$ youtube-dl -v <your command line>
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1251, fs mbcs, out cp866, pref cp1251
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.12.06
[debug] Git HEAD: 135392e
[debug] Python version 2.6.6 - Windows-2003Server-5.2.3790-SP2
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-75573-g1d0487f, ffprobe N-75573-g1d0487f, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
...

Do not post screenshots of verbose log only plain text is acceptable.

The output (including the first lines) contains important debugging information. Issues without the full output are often not reproducible and therefore do not get solved in short order, if ever.

[RedSoxFan04]

Here’s the output:

[youtube] N4_3ci9jvis: Downloading webpage
[youtube] N4_3ci9jvis: Downloading video information webpage
[youtube] N4_3ci9jvis: Extracting video information
[youtube] N4_3ci9jvis: Downloading MPD manifest
[download] Destination: “/user/Jfblagden/Movies/youtube-dl/Bring Back MST3K, Part 4 - Joel Shares A Few More Details-%(ext)s”
[download]  21.0% of 18.73MiB at 355.73KiB/s ETA 00:42

[dstftw]

Read my post closely.

[RedSoxFan04]

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: [u'-o', u'\u201c/user/Jfblagden/Movies/youtube-dl/%(title)s-%.%(ext)s\u201d’]
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'[youtube]', u'N4_3ci9jvis:', u'Downloading', u’webpage’]
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.02.22
[debug] Python version 2.7.8 - Darwin-15.3.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
ERROR: u'[youtube]' is not a valid URL. Set --default-search "ytsearch" (or run  youtube-dl "ytsearch:[youtube]" ) to search YouTube
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 666, in extract_information
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 316, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 1204, in _real_extract
    % (url, url), expected=True)
ExtractorError: u'[youtube]' is not a valid URL. Set --default-search "ytsearch" (or run  youtube-dl "ytsearch:[youtube]" ) to search YouTube

Joshs-MacBook-Pro:~ jfblagden$ [youtube] N4_3ci9jvis: Downloading video information webpage
-bash: [youtube]: command not found
Joshs-MacBook-Pro:~ jfblagden$ [youtube] N4_3ci9jvis: Extracting video information
-bash: [youtube]: command not found
Joshs-MacBook-Pro:~ jfblagden$ [youtube] N4_3ci9jvis: Downloading MPD manifest
-bash: [youtube]: command not found
Joshs-MacBook-Pro:~ jfblagden$ [download] Destination: “/user/Jfblagden/Movies/youtube-dl/Bring Back MST3K, Part 4 - Joel Shares A Few More Details-%(ext)s”
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(‘
Joshs-MacBook-Pro:~ jfblagden$ [download]  21.0% of 18.73MiB at 355.73KiB/s ETA 00:42
-bash: [download]: command not found

[dstftw]

1. You must use proper quotes: preferably single ' or maybe double " but not “ or ”.
2. What is the purpose of the second % in %(title)s-%.%(ext)s? Either remove it or replace with %% if you want output a percent literal.

[RedSoxFan04]

I copied that section directly from the instructions. I simply took out the id and what I thought were its delimiters.

[RedSoxFan04]

I took out the second ‘%’, but I still get a similar result; the video is put in the same folder, though it finally shows the right extension.

[dstftw]

Post the full output with latest command.

[RedSoxFan04]

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: [u'-o', u'\u201c/user/jfblagden/Movies/youtube-dl/%(title)s-.%(ext)s\u201d’]
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN3uXrgNpvw']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.02.22
[debug] Python version 2.7.8 - Darwin-15.3.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] HN3uXrgNpvw: Downloading webpage
[youtube] HN3uXrgNpvw: Downloading video information webpage
[youtube] HN3uXrgNpvw: Extracting video information
[youtube] HN3uXrgNpvw: Downloading MPD manifest
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'https://r7---sn-mv-ab5z.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?sparams=dur%2Cid%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Clmt%2Cmime%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cpl%2Cratebypass%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cupn%2Cexpire&requiressl=yes&lmt=1450850208486653&initcwndbps=607500&key=yt6&fexp=9416126%2C9420452%2C9422526%2C9422596%2C9423661%2C9423662%2C9423845%2C9424129%2C9424879%2C9426471%2C9426722%2C9427363%2C9427391%2C9427773%2C9427799%2C9427958%2C9429231&sver=3&signature=DDCDDFB4024EC3BECE3B3AFD5D46BBE1304ABFDD.719E83C66105F01FEC1C1F478D4E61C6C78D3854&ipbits=0&expire=1456613741&upn=zl44rEqqgt0&itag=22&mime=video%2Fmp4&dur=41.099&ms=au&id=o-AFQyYSgY3jJC4zjcYEU3bnF79PkMh4GDK0MoVkPdiv5a&pl=19&mv=m&mt=1456592052&ratebypass=yes&ip=70.215.6.126&mn=sn-mv-ab5z&mm=31&source=youtube’
[download] Destination: “/user/jfblagden/Movies/youtube-dl/MST3K - The Beatniks - DVD Menu-.mp4”
[download] 100% of 6.03MiB in 00:10
![screen shot 2016-02-27 at 2 54 47 pm](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/13876066/13374982/18d26466-dd62-11e5-956f-de39a2e4f666.jpg)

[dstftw]

Do you read my posts at all?

1. You must use proper quotes: preferably single ' or maybe double " but not “ or ”.

[RedSoxFan04]

I changed the triple quotes to single quotes. Is that better?