[LAU] OT: youtube-dl stopped working

[Dragan Noveski]

On 24.07.2010 08:20, david wrote:
> Ken Restivo wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 02:29:44PM +0200, Dragan Noveski wrote:
>>> On 22.07.2010 21:58, Ken Restivo wrote:
>>>> The youtube-dl script all of a sudden stopped working today.
>>>>
>>>> I went to their website and there's only one issue open on this, 
>>>> from several days ago, no replies, seems to be no action on this.
>>>>
>>>> Is youtube-dl actively maintained? Did Google make it impossible 
>>>> for youtube-dl to work anymore? What's the story? Is anyone working 
>>>> on fixing this? Are there alternatives that actually still work?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> -ken
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>> hallo,
>>> as i know, youtube-dl is a script which is changing pretty often,  
>>> because youtube himself do some changes...the version in sidux repo 
>>> is  2010.07.14-1 and it worked just two or 3 days ago, but not any 
>>> more. the  error is the same phillip has: ERROR: format not 
>>> available for video
>>>
>>> i suppose that is gonna be updated soon.
>>>
>>>
>>> ...ok, i just rechecked - on the youtube-dl site, there is already 
>>> an  update and it works well here:
>>>
>>> http://bitbucket.org/rg3/youtube-dl/wiki/Home
>>
>> Thanks! That works now.
>>
>> I'd forgotten to check their repository too, which might have gotten 
>> me a working version a day or two ago.
>>
>> Thanks again everyone.
>
> Hmmm, just downloaded it and tried it here, and it doesn't work. It 
> says  setting language, downloading page. Then it returns to the 
> command prompt and nothing downloads.
>
that's strange?! i just tried it again in order to see if it works, and 
it does.
what does youtube-dl -v say?
here:

nowhiskey at murija5:~/Desktop$ youtube-dl -v
2010.07.22
nowhiskey at murija5:~/Desktop$


cheers,
doc