Error 404 with 2013.06.34.2 version only

[pierreporte]

I create this issue because youtube-dl asked for it.

I want to download every video of a channel, so I installed youtube-dl (I use Archlinux) in the version 2013.06.34.1 (community repository), and I got this:

$ youtube-dl -t -f 44/35/18/34 "http://www.youtube.com/user/cestpassorcierftv"
[youtube:user] cestpassorcierftv: Downloading video ids from 1 to 51
[youtube:user] cestpassorcierftv: Downloading video ids from 51 to 101
[youtube:user] cestpassorcierftv: Downloading video ids from 101 to 151
[youtube:user] cestpassorcierftv: Downloading video ids from 151 to 201
[youtube:user] cestpassorcierftv: Downloading video ids from 201 to 251
[youtube:user] cestpassorcierftv: Downloading video ids from 251 to 301
[youtube:user] cestpassorcierftv: Downloading video ids from 301 to 351
[youtube:user] cestpassorcierftv: Downloading video ids from 351 to 401
[download] Downloading playlist: cestpassorcierftv
[youtube:user] playlist 'cestpassorcierftv': Collected 367 video ids (downloading 367 of them)
[download] Downloading video #1 of 367
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] 0TzcKioh2rg: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] 0TzcKioh2rg: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 0TzcKioh2rg: Extracting video information
ERROR: unable to download video

After reading the README file, I tried youtube-dl --update, but I got It looks like you installed youtube-dl with pip, setup.py or a tarball. Please use that to update. (which is not the case actually). Update with pip did not work (I have several problems with my environment), so I installed the git version (on AUR), this is, when I write these lines, the 2013.06.34.2.

But due to update problems with my installation, I installed the git version (2013.06.34.2) and I ran the same command as before:

$ youtube-dl -t -f 44/35/18/34 "http://www.youtube.com/user/cestpassorcierftv"
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] user: Downloading video webpage
ERROR: Unable to download video webpage: HTTP Error 404: Not Found; please report this issue on http://yt-dl.org/bug

I don't understant this 404 error, because the previous versions seems to find the videos. Everything works fine with

$ youtube-dl -t -f 44/35/18/34 "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0eI4ABO91U"

for instance.

[phihag]

Works fine for me with 2013.06.34.4:

$ youtube-dl -f 44/35/18/34 "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0eI4ABO91U" -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-f', '44/35/18/34', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0eI4ABO91U', '-v']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.06.34.4
[debug] Git HEAD: d7f44b5
[debug] Python version 2.7.5+ - Linux-3.4-trunk-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-jessie-sid
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] v0eI4ABO91U: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] v0eI4ABO91U: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] v0eI4ABO91U: Extracting video information
[youtube] v0eI4ABO91U: Encrypted signatures detected.
[youtube] encrypted signature length 86 (42.43), itag 44, html5 player vfl_ymO4Z
[youtube] encrypted signature length 86 (42.43), itag 35, html5 player vfl_ymO4Z
[youtube] encrypted signature length 86 (42.43), itag 43, html5 player vfl_ymO4Z
[youtube] encrypted signature length 86 (42.43), itag 34, html5 player vfl_ymO4Z
[youtube] encrypted signature length 86 (42.43), itag 18, html5 player vfl_ymO4Z
[youtube] encrypted signature length 86 (42.43), itag 5, html5 player vfl_ymO4Z
[youtube] encrypted signature length 86 (42.43), itag 36, html5 player vfl_ymO4Z
[youtube] encrypted signature length 86 (42.43), itag 17, html5 player vfl_ymO4Z
[download] Destination: C'est pas sorcier - Les sorciers ne manquent pas d'air ! (l'aérodynamique)-v0eI4ABO91U.webm

Can you retry? This may have just been a temporary failure of YouTube.

Also, the update error message is thrown when we detect that you're not using using youtube-dl as downloaded. I've added a note about distribution packages there, although we may want to simply ignore that and overwrite the executable if it is becoming a problem.

[yasoob]

@pierreporte can you test it again and if it fails again then include the whole output by running with --verbose flag. For eg youtube-dl --verbose -t -f 44/35/18/34 "http://www.youtube.com/user/cestpassorcierftv"

[pierreporte]

I tried again some days ago after installing the 2013.06.34.

@phihag, downloading a single video always worked. The problem was with a channel only.

With the last version, it worked. I don't know why exactly, but it seems that youtube-dl has problems connecting with Youtube's servers. It's a known bug of my computers. The fact is, after some repetitions of the command (the same as @yasoob's), a video download, but due to the connection problems, I only got the first.

Anyway. I will provide all outputs for getting at least one video using this command:

youtube-dl --verbose -t -f 44/35/18/34 "http://www.youtube.com/user/cestpassorcierftv"

Go to http://0bin.net/paste/ab6b2cae7f0ccf5b5bf32ccfb17bc24d84aa597f#4MRjGezC1uyN22/AWYYIWcXPvV47MHjcncFhUpkhMHU=

By the way, I just noticed that the video already downloaded are detected, it's very good!