Unable to download an embedded video

[sadeqzadeh]

~ $ youtube-dl --verbose http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yFaneKodJdg
[2] 5476
sadeqzad@Laptop ~ $ [debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.06.34.4
[debug] Python version 2.7.4 - Linux-3.8.0-19-generic-x86_64-with-LinuxMint-15-olivia
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] watch: Downloading video webpage
ERROR: Unable to download video webpage: HTTP Error 404: Not Found; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 416, in _real_extract
video_webpage_bytes = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 127, in urlopen
return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 410, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 523, in http_response
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 448, in error
return self._call_chain(_args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
result = func(_args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 531, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 312, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 92, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 418, in _real_extract
raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to download video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
ExtractorError: Unable to download video webpage: HTTP Error 404: Not Found; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

[phihag]

In a shell, you need to escape the ampersand. Your shell parses your command as

youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded &
v=yFaneKodJdg                   # Set a variable and do nothing

Either escape the ampersands with backslashes or put the whole URL in quotes:

$ youtube-dl "http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yFaneKodJdg"
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] yFaneKodJdg: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] yFaneKodJdg: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] yFaneKodJdg: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: Work out your English!-yFaneKodJdg.mp4

Note that this is a feature of your shell, and completely unrelated to youtube-dl. We just get the URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen. I've added a warning now that summarizes this:

$ youtube-dl --verbose http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yFaneKodJdg
[1] 2093
$ [debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.06.34.4
[debug] Git HEAD: 53936f3
[debug] Python version 2.7.5+ - Linux-3.4-trunk-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-jessie-sid
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
WARNING: Did you forget to quote the URL? Remember that & is a meta-character in most shells, so you want to put the URL in quotes, like  youtube-dl 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=foo&v=BaW_jenozKc' (or simply  youtube-dl BaW_jenozKc  ).
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[sadeqzadeh]

Thank you for your attention and explanations. yes, I have a very basic knowledge about Bash, I passed a course on that last year. Thank you again.