Ubuntu
youtube-dl package

can't download from YouTube subdomains with youtube-dl

Bug #121539 reported by Mehdi Hassanpour
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youtube-dl (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
youtube-dl (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: youtube-dl

I can't download with youtube-dl from http://uk.youtube.com... I get an error like this:
Error: URL does not seem to be a youtube video URL. If it is, report a bug.

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Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik) wrote :

Confirmed on Feisty. It only works on http://youtube.com/

Changed in youtube-dl:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
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Mehdi Hassanpour (mehdi) wrote :

Gusty package is the same! they only work with http://youtube.com/
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/youtube-in-9-more-domains.html

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William Grant (wgrant) wrote :

Mehdi: You might want to report it upstream, as they're likely to be the best people to fix it.

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Alex Muntada (alex.muntada) wrote :

Fixed on Debian unstable: youtube-dl/2007.08.24-1

Changed in youtube-dl:
status: New → Unknown
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Alex Muntada (alex.muntada) wrote :

I tried http://youtube.com/watch?v=kLgJYBRzUXY and it does not work; so removing the first part of the hostname doesn't help anymore.

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Changed in youtube-dl:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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Ralph Corderoy (ralph-inputplus) wrote :

Alex: that's a different problem caused by YouTube's web page changing. If you can't find an existing bug, please open a new one. youtube-dl's author has already fixed this in the version on his web page: http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/ You can download this version to a temporary directory and after `chmod +x ./youtube-dl' you can do `./youtube-dl $url'.

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Alex Muntada (alex.muntada) wrote :

Ralph: the problem is the same AFAIK, because YouTube's web pages changed in order to introduce new subdomains for other countries.

The current version from Debian is in sync with the author's, so the fix should be as easy as sync'ing Gutsy with he current Debian version and backport to Feisty.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in youtube-dl:
status: Fix Released → New
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Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik) wrote :

Works for me now on http://uk.youtube.com.

Changed in youtube-dl:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in youtube-dl:
status: New → Fix Released
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