youtube-dl 2010.04.04 and earlier don't work with youtube.com anymore

[zpletan]

Binary package hint: youtube-dl

Trying to download many YouTube videos fails unless python-gdata is installed. youtube-dl does not depend, in apt, on python-gdata. Neither of these two facts is immediately obvious (I actually figured it out while reading something about Totem's YouTube plugin).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: youtube-dl 2010.04.04-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.41-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Sep 1 13:04:03 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: youtube-dl

[zpletan (zpletan)]

Forgot to mention, I'm using youtube-dl 2010.08.04 in Lucid.

[Rogério Theodoro de Brito (rbrito)]

Hi.

On Sep 01 2010, Zachary Pletan wrote:
> Trying to download many YouTube videos fails unless python-gdata is
> installed. youtube-dl does not depend, in apt, on python-gdata.
> Neither of these two facts is immediately obvious (I actually figured it
> out while reading something about Totem's YouTube plugin).

Could you clarify why you think that youtube-dl needs python-gdata? I
don't have python-gdata installed and it works fine. The same things
applies to 2 other embedded architectures where youtube-dl has been
working fine for a long time.

Are you confusing youtube-dl (the command line program) with another
program, perhaps?

Regards,

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[zpletan (zpletan)]

Huh. It appears that the problem was actually solved by getting the latest version of youtube-dl, NOT by installing python-gdata.

A thousand apologies for wasting your time with my overzealous troubleshooting.

[Rogério Theodoro de Brito (rbrito)]

No problems.

It is still a problem with the distribution, since the package stopped working and no updates were released.

Regards.