can't download vidoes from youtube

[Harshil Doshi]

i m using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

harshil@ubuntu:~$ apt-cache policy youtube-dl
youtube-dl:
  Installed: 2012.02.27-1
  Candidate: 2012.02.27-1
  Version table:
 *** 2012.02.27-1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
harshil@ubuntu:~$

harshil@ubuntu:~$ youtube-dl --version
2012.02.27
harshil@ubuntu:~$ youtube-dl -U
ERROR: no write permissions on /usr/bin/youtube-dl
harshil@ubuntu:~$ youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeXaxiDZ2zk
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] UeXaxiDZ2zk: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] UeXaxiDZ2zk: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] UeXaxiDZ2zk: Extracting video information

ERROR: unable to download video
harshil@ubuntu:~$

[RaduStoica (radumstoica)]

This works without problems for me. Maybe the download fails because of other reasons (e.g.: you don't have write permissions to the directory, disk full...)?

[Harshil Doshi (hdoshi093)]

On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Dave Lentz <email address hidden>wrote:

> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1060813 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1060813
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1060813
> [SRU, precise] Current version (2012.02.27) doesn't work anymore
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1062966
>
> Title:
> can't download vidoes from youtube
>
> Status in “youtube-dl” package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> i m using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
>
> harshil@ubuntu:~$ apt-cache policy youtube-dl
> youtube-dl:
> Installed: 2012.02.27-1
> Candidate: 2012.02.27-1
> Version table:
> *** 2012.02.27-1 0
> 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe i386
> Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> harshil@ubuntu:~$
>
>
> harshil@ubuntu:~$ youtube-dl --version
> 2012.02.27
> harshil@ubuntu:~$ youtube-dl -U
> ERROR: no write permissions on /usr/bin/youtube-dl
> harshil@ubuntu:~$ youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeXaxiDZ2zk
> [youtube] Setting language
> [youtube] UeXaxiDZ2zk: Downloading video webpage
> [youtube] UeXaxiDZ2zk: Downloading video info webpage
> [youtube] UeXaxiDZ2zk: Extracting video information
>
> ERROR: unable to download video
> harshil@ubuntu:~$
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/youtube-dl/+bug/1062966/+subscriptions
>

harshil@ubuntu:~$ wget
https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/raw/2012.09.27/youtube-dl
--2012-10-07 11:24:51--
https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/raw/2012.09.27/youtube-dl
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 207.97.227.239
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|207.97.227.239|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://raw.github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/2012.09.27/youtube-dl[following]
--2012-10-07 11:25:03--
https://raw.github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/2012.09.27/youtube-dl
Resolving raw.github.com (raw.github.com)... 207.97.227.243
Connecting to raw.github.com (raw.github.com)|207.97.227.243|:443...
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 41023 (40K) [text/plain]
Saving to: `youtube-dl'

100%[======================================>] 41,023 9.77K/s in 4.1s

2012-10-07 11:25:13 (9.77 KB/s) - `youtube-dl' saved [41023/41023]

harshil@ubuntu:~$ chmod +x ./youtube-dl
harshil@ubuntu:~$ youtube-dl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Kfja5-7Fw74
[1] 2959
harshil@ubuntu:~$ [youtube] Setting language
WARNING: unable to set language: <urlopen error [Errno -2] Name or service
not known>
[youtube] watch: Downloading video webpage
ERROR: unable to download video webpage: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
^C
[1]+ Exit 1 youtube-dl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage
harshil@ubuntu:~$ youtube-dl -t
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa-0gDAO9As&feature=relmfu
[1] 3073
harshil@ubuntu:~$ [youtube] Setting language
WARNING: unable to set language: <urlopen error [Errno -2] Name or service
not known>
[youtube] xa-0gDAO9As: Downloading video webpa...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.