[LAU] OT: youtube-dl stopped working

[david]

Dragan Noveski wrote:
> 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.

Yesterday I went to here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/StNicholasEpiscopal

Clicked on the first sermon in the right column, got this URL:

http://www.youtube.com/user/StNicholasEpiscopal#p/c/BA994E97CAB499FC/0/2VGN79gJrSY

That one didn't work.

Now when I click on the same sermon link, I get this URL:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VGN79gJrSY

That one does work.

The only difference between the two is that today I have Javascript 
disabled via NoScript at YouTube. Yesterday I had it enabled so the 
Flash video would play in the browser window.

> what does youtube-dl -v say?
> here:
> 
> nowhiskey at murija5:~/Desktop$ youtube-dl -v
> 2010.07.22
> nowhiskey at murija5:~/Desktop$

Same version.

So it appears to be working fine. My mistake, sorry for the noise. Thank 
you for the still very useful youtube-dl!

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David
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