Re:YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader
by chriswarbo on Saturday April 09, 2016 @04:51AM
(#11460547)
$ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbKJt1NQtZE
[youtube] wbKJt1NQtZE: Downloading webpage
[youtube] wbKJt1NQtZE: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] wbKJt1NQtZE: Extracting video information
[youtube] wbKJt1NQtZE: Downloading MPD manifest
WARNING: Requested formats are incompatible for merge and will be merged into mkv.
[download] Destination: True Detective - My Least Favorite Life - Lera Lynn Scene-wbKJt1NQtZE.f136.mp4
[download] 19.3% of 35.60MiB at 1.51MiB/s ETA 00:18
I just tried `youtube-dl wbKJt1NQtZE` and that works too. I didn't know the "v" parameter could be given like that!
Re:YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader
by JadeNB on Saturday April 16, 2016 @02:55PM
(#11511778)
In case anyone else hits this (admittedly very specific) problem, nathyong (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11461326 )'s suggestion, and a subsequent USE (http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/276731/shell-eating-...) question, made it clear that my issue is that I had some time turned on `nullglob`, so `https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbKJt1NQtZE ` was being taken as a very strange, certainly non-matching, glob.
Re:YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader
by JadeNB on Saturday April 09, 2016 @08:30AM
(#11460982)
Very strange. Perhaps it's some setup- or platform-dependent thing; I will file an issue. Thanks for checking!
EDIT: Very strange; I thought I'd give a try to what seemed a throwaway comment in your post, about quoting the string, and that fixed it. Thanks!
Without the double quotes (which seemed to be unnecessary for you), I still get:
$ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbKJt1NQtZE
Usage: youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]
youtube-dl: error: You must provide at least one URL.
Type youtube-dl --help to see a list of all options.
Re:YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader
by nathyong on Saturday April 09, 2016 @10:23AM
(#11461326)
It's possible your shell has some kind of regular expression magic enabled that is eating the '?' and the '=' characters:
$ echo youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=wbKJt1NQtZE
youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbKJt1NQtZE
$ echo youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbKJt1NQtZE
zsh: no matches found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbKJt1NQtZE
Re:YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader
by JadeNB on Saturday April 09, 2016 @06:03PM
(#11463561)
Interesting! It seems that my `echo` is eating any substrings involving `?`.
$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.3.42(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0)
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
$ echo a ? = =?
a =
Are you sure that this is true? Starting many updates ago, but continuing into the present (I just updated to 2016.04.06 to be sure), I encountered a weird situation where
fails but works. I have no problem with the second working, but don't understand why the first fails. It seems to be fine for other video services; only YouTube requires this URL-processing step.