[SOLVED] youtube-dl - unable to download video (format may not be available)
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youtube-dl - unable to download video (format may not be available)
I downloaded youtube-dl tarball from this link.
What's wrong here?
Code:
anisha@linux-uitj:~/tarBalls> tar -xf youtube-dl-2010.08.04.tar.bz2
anisha@linux-uitj:~/tarBalls> cd youtube-dl/
anisha@linux-uitj:~/tarBalls/youtube-dl> ls
LATEST_VERSION youtube-dl
anisha@linux-uitj:~/tarBalls/youtube-dl> ./youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfOC_Msb1dI
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] BfOC_Msb1dI: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] BfOC_Msb1dI: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] BfOC_Msb1dI: Extracting video information
ERROR: unable to download video (format may not be available)
anisha@linux-uitj:~/tarBalls/youtube-dl> man youtude-dl
No manual entry for youtude-dl
anisha@linux-uitj:~/tarBalls/youtube-dl>
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Hi,
youtube-dl was working fine till date, but now it fails to download some video, i tried downloading this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFbCDaPKOFM) but it failed to download, is there any changes needed in the script to download from youtube.
thanks.
@Anisha Kaul,
I tried using post #5 method, but unable to download.
thanks.
This IS working for me, in the previous post I was dumb enough to try it with google com.
See the following:
Code:
[11:14:47 Wed Jun 22] ~ $./download.sh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfOC_Msb1dI
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] BfOC_Msb1dI: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] BfOC_Msb1dI: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] BfOC_Msb1dI: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: BfOC_Msb1dI.flv
[download] 2.1% of 14.45M at 32.85k/s ETA 07:20^C
ERROR: Interrupted by user
[11:15:11 Wed Jun 22] ~ $./download.sh http://www.google.com
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] www.google.com: Downloading webpage
[generic] www.google.com: Extracting information
ERROR: Invalid URL: http://www.google.com
[11:15:22 Wed Jun 22] ~ $
The download.sh script contains the "latest" GIT repo code.
What problems you are facing now? List down the errors here.
Last edited by Aquarius_Girl; 06-22-2011 at 12:38 AM.
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