On Sunday, June 2, 2024 4:06:59 P.M. AEST John Covici wrote: > On Sat, 01 Jun 2024 23:19:37 -0400, > > Paul Colquhoun wrote: > > On Sunday, June 2, 2024 1:34:20 A.M. AEST John Covici wrote: > > > The great program yt-dlp no longer will download from youtube. It > > > complains that name or service not known. It works fine downloading > > > from rumble. Anyone know what is happening? I assume youtube did > > > some update that broke something. > > > > > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. > > > > It's working for me. > > > > Can you post a full command line that isn't working? > > Here is the command with full output. > youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/embed/VGNMhK8Yssg
Hmmmm, it seems to work here: $ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/embed/VGNMhK8Yssg [youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/embed/VGNMhK8Yssg [youtube] VGNMhK8Yssg: Downloading webpage [youtube] VGNMhK8Yssg: Downloading ios player API JSON [youtube] VGNMhK8Yssg: Downloading android player API JSON [youtube] VGNMhK8Yssg: Downloading m3u8 information [info] VGNMhK8Yssg: Downloading 1 format(s): 270+140 [hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest [hlsnative] Total fragments: 25 [download] Destination: Fernanda speaks on the occasion of Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2024-VGNMhK8Yssg.f270.mp4 [download] 100% of 12.46MiB in 00:00:27 at 467.49KiB/s [download] Destination: Fernanda speaks on the occasion of Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2024-VGNMhK8Yssg.f140.m4a [download] 100% of 1.99MiB in 00:00:01 at 1.30MiB/s [Merger] Merging formats into "Fernanda speaks on the occasion of Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2024-VGNMhK8Yssg.mp4" Deleting original file Fernanda speaks on the occasion of Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2024-VGNMhK8Yssg.f270.mp4 (pass -k to keep) Deleting original file Fernanda speaks on the occasion of Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2024-VGNMhK8Yssg.f140.m4a (pass -k to keep) $ ls -l Fernanda* -rw-r--r-- 1 <me> <me> 14531671 May 17 01:54 'Fernanda speaks on the occasion of Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2024-VGNMhK8Yssg.mp4' $ file Fernanda* Fernanda speaks on the occasion of Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2024- VGNMhK8Yssg.mp4: ISO Media, MP4 Base Media v1 [ISO 14496-12:2003] $ youtube-dl --version 2024.05.27 Try following that URL in your browser, then click the "Watch in YouTube" link at the lower left. This converts the URL to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGNMhK8Yssg See if that URL works for you. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro