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youtube-dl update provlem

Asked by Ranjeet

hi, youtube-dl is not working in my laptop. when i used this "youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxcGVT9-tMk " we get error as:

[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] AxcGVT9-tMk: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] AxcGVT9-tMk: Downloading video info webpage
ERROR: "token" parameter not in video info for unknown reason

 So now i tried to updtae it,but in updating we get error as:

$ sudo youtube-dl -U
Updating to latest version...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 4645, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 4636, in main
    _real_main()
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 4610, in _real_main
    updateSelf(fd, sys.argv[0])
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 4203, in updateSelf
    urlh.close()
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'urlh' referenced before assignment

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N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux) said : 		#1

You can try to uninstall and re-install youtube-dl ,
OR
you can use another tool. A good one that I used and never had any problems is Movgrab (and support other sites as well)

http://www.webupd8.org/2012/02/movgrab-command-line-video-downloader.html

Regards
 NikTh

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

You need to give youtube-dl a link from youtube, you don't just run it on it's own. Did you even read guides or the man page??

eg:

youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tncGuuB8afg

Running youtube-dl on it's own does nothing....think about it

If you are intending to then rip the audio out of the video you can use the same http link in:
http://www.youtube-mp3.org/

And the site will do the work for you.

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michael (abrightcoldday) said : 		#3

Youtube-dl says that Ubuntu is not keeping packages updated. Auto update (-U) does not work and Synaptic has old files. Has Ubuntu decided not to support youtube-dl?

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