[SOLVED] clive and youtube-dl have stopped working

Has anyone else experienced this?

$ clive "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwxBj5OfeGM"
fetch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuRKbvpWPUI ...done.
verify video link ...
error: Unknown error (http/403)
	(in cleanup) cannot access `DESTROY' field in class clive::Video at /usr/share/perl5/clive/App.pm line 106

$ cclive "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwxBj5OfeGM"
Checking ... ..... ...... .....libquvi: error: server response code 403 (conncode=0)


$ youtube-dl "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwxBj5OfeGM"
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] fuRKbvpWPUI: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] fuRKbvpWPUI: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] fuRKbvpWPUI: Extracting video information

ERROR: unable to download video

Originally Posted by Nutria Has anyone else experienced this? $ clive "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwxBj5OfeGM" fetch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuRKbvpWPUI ...done. verify video link ... error: Unknown error (http/403) (in cleanup) cannot access `DESTROY' field in class clive::Video at /usr/share/perl5/clive/App.pm line 106 $ cclive "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwxBj5OfeGM" Checking ... ..... ...... .....libquvi: error: server response code 403 (conncode=0) $ youtube-dl "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwxBj5OfeGM" [youtube] Setting language [youtube] fuRKbvpWPUI: Downloading video webpage [youtube] fuRKbvpWPUI: Downloading video info webpage [youtube] fuRKbvpWPUI: Extracting video information ERROR: unable to download video

That's odd. Try using minitube or XvideoServiceThief instead. Of course, if you simply want to download videos, both Chrome and Firefox can do this with extensions. Google something like best youtube downloaders for (your favorite web browser like Firefox, Chrome, Opera....)

Chrome is basically awesome at doing downloads not just for youtube but many other video sites as well.

That youtube-dl command works okay here. But is your youtube-dl version the latest? Mine is...

$ youtube-dl --version
2012.11.17

So it looks like the youtube-dl script was update a week back. To update to latest...

$ sudo youtube-dl --update

Happy with ur solution... then tick "yes" and mark as Solved!

Originally Posted by dru8274 That youtube-dl command works okay here. But is your youtube-dl version the latest? Mine is... $ youtube-dl --version 2012.11.17 So it looks like the youtube-dl script was update a week back. To update to latest... youtube-dl --update Happy with ur solution... then tick "yes" and mark as Solved!

Mine's from the Ubuntu 12.04 repos. Tomorrow I'll install a local version and try it out.
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You don't need to download a local version. Just run

sudo youtube-dl -U

This will check for the latest version and install it. This last part is optional but you can run
youtube-dl --version before and after the install to verify if it updated successfully.

Also, in very rare occasions sometimes the latest update will not worked. You see, google doesn't want anyone downloading the videos and they're always changing things around. Which is why you need to run youtude-dl -U very often.

Here's a tip for better file name titles.

Add -o "%(title)s.mp4" or -o "%(title)s.flv" after the link to get better titles for the videos.

For example

youtube-dl -f18 <youtube link> -o "%(title)s.mp4"

or

youtube-dl <youtube link> -o "%(title)s.flv"

Originally Posted by dru8274 That youtube-dl command works okay here. But is your youtube-dl version the latest? Mine is... $ youtube-dl --version 2012.11.17

That's interesting. http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/download.html indicates that the latest version is 2012.10.09.
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Originally Posted by Nutria That's interesting. http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/download.html indicates that the latest version is 2012.10.09. . . .

Well, after downloading it, I ran the update and now it's at 2012.11.17 and downloads again.
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