Why youtube-dl does not work or download video?

pookito · 2 February 2022 16:35

I don’t think you need this for this question, but I’ll added here. The Title says it all. Youtube-dl does not work. Any reason why. IDK how to tackle this problem. Thank you for your answer.

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cjean · 2 February 2022 16:41

Hi.

You may try yt-dlp, a fork of youtube-dl which, I think, works better.

ishaan2479 · 2 February 2022 16:45

Working for me. Give the output:

youtube-dl --version
youtube-dl -o ~/Downloads/my_video.mp4 "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJTGAtLH7Hw"

pookito · 2 February 2022 16:56

Thank you, this is really nice. Sadly, after the download I still have the same problem.

                                                                                                                            ✔ 
    ~  yt-dlp --list-formats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k91gP7u3fhs                                                                      ✔  3m 32s  
zsh: no matches found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k91gP7u3fhs
    ~  yt-dlp --list-formats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih4fo6BTMrQ                                                                               1 ✘ 
zsh: no matches found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih4fo6BTMrQ
    ~  yt-dlp --list-formats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xaLJkhY11M~                                                                              1 ✘ 
zsh: no matches found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xaLJkhY11M~

cjean · 2 February 2022 17:02

Maybe put the URL between single quotes:
yt-dlp --list-formats 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k91gP7u3fhs'

I suspect that the shell tries to interpret the question mark sign ? as it is a special character.

nikgnomic · 2 February 2022 18:43

Command for 1st video works with just the video code number, but video is not is not available

$ youtube-dl --list-formats k91gP7u3fhs
[youtube] k91gP7u3fhs: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Video unavailable
The uploader has not made this video available in your country

Command for 2nd video works
youtube-dl --list-formats Ih4fo6BTMrQ

Command for 3rd video works if the tilde ~ after the video code is deleted
youtube-dl --list-formats 8xaLJkhY11M

stargazer · 3 February 2022 07:05

I did a ddg search and found the link below. The person had success when putting the URL in quotes as mentioned by @cjean.

[SOLVED] Can’t use youtube-dl while on zsh.

I always wonder what I missed in the OP when folks reply with info given. Is not working secret code I went though the thread and finally it was revealed that the environment was zsh (that was in the OP) and the error message was no matches found.

There are special characters in the shell that need to be quoted if they are part of a filename or not being used as intended. These can be metacharacters and globbing characters. In general, quoting filenames is a very good habit to get into.

koshikas · 3 February 2022 08:03

youtube-dl is in affect defunct now, all users are urged to move onto yt-dlp which is developed actively which much more function set.

github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

Under new management

opened 02:44PM - 29 Jan 22 UTC

dirkf

Thanks to @rg3 who created this program the project has a new maintainer. Als…o, many thanks to @dstftw and @remitamine for holding the fort over the last several years. I hope that we'll be able to make a new release soon and subsequently keep the program more up-to-date than has been the case for the last few months. The project has a fork https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp that offers a lot of extra functions but demands an up-to-date Python version. This project will continue to target Python version 2.6, 2.7, or 3.2+, at least until no-one complains about 2.6 compatibility. PRs are very welcome, although there is a significant back-log to be handled. Back-ports of yt-dlp features are also welcome. Finally, I'd encourage anyone else who is interested in sharing maintenance duties to establish a track record and make themselves known. We want to keep this popular project alive with a community of future maintainers.

linux-aarhus · 3 February 2022 08:35

Does anyone ever consider that Google is behind yt?

And they actively work to counter measure code like yt-dl?

eavy · 3 February 2022 15:00

give clipgrab a try - works very well

servimo · 3 February 2022 16:00

Is there a version for Linux?

*yes, in AUR. But is outdated

eavy · 3 February 2022 16:16

in the official repositories
clipgrab

servimo · 3 February 2022 16:28

Thanks! I didn’t seen it.

eavy · 3 February 2022 19:13

official site is here https://clipgrab.org/

stargazer · 3 February 2022 23:44

Nice find @koshikas. It’s a good reminder to always go to the source.

I was wondering how easy it is to find out where an application stands in respect to python (could be perl, ruby, rust, javascript… I suppose). Doing a pacman -Qi youtube-dl just says “Depends on python”. The -h or --version don’t add anything, but the man page does say

It requires the Python interpreter, version 2.6, 2.7, or 3.2+,

I’d be concerned with any software that depends on python 2 with no plan, but then again, they have been trying to move past perl 5 for ages.

Going to github and looking at “.github/workflows)/ci.yml” shows

python-version: [2.7, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, pypy-2.7, pypy-3.6, pypy-3.7]

A pacman -Ss yt-dlp shows that it is in the community repo.

It’ll be interesting to see where this goes.

Any reason to come to the conclusion that this was the OP issue… Hhhhhmmmm…

koshikas · 4 February 2022 02:08

i think OP issue is zsh sensitivity,

just wanted everyone to move to yt-dlp anyway. besides the non maintenance, youtube-dl also suffers from throttling from YouTube. yt-dlp uses android plugin as a workaround for the time being.

joe-77 · 4 February 2022 16:56

pookito · 5 February 2022 01:50

Yep, this did it for me. Thank you you all.

system · 7 February 2022 15:51

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