yt-dlp: ERROR: unable to download video data: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
Checklist
- I’m reporting a broken site support issue
- I’ve verified that I’m running yt-dlp version 2021.07.07
- I’ve checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
- I’ve checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
- I’ve searched the bugtracker for similar bug reports including closed ones
- I’ve read bugs section in FAQ
Verbose log
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref cp1252
[debug] yt-dlp version 2021.07.07 (exe)
[debug] Python version 3.9.6 (CPython 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.19043-SP0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.3.1-2020-11-19-full_build-www.gyan.dev, ffprobe 4.3.1-2020-11-19-full_build-www.gyan.dev
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] [generic] Extracting URL: _Link Redacted_
[generic] master: Requesting header
WARNING: [generic] Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] master: Downloading webpage
[generic] master: Downloading m3u8 information
[debug] Formats sorted by: hasvid, ie_pref, lang, quality, res, fps, vcodec:vp9.2(10), acodec, filesize, fs_approx, tbr, vbr, abr, asr, proto, vext, aext, hasaud, source, id
[debug] Downloading subtitles: de, he, fr, es, en, ru, yi
Description
when using native downloader a lot of times it fails with error “ERROR: unable to download video data: [Errno 13] Permission denied:” but if i retry it works, how do i make it retry automatically ? i tried --retries infinite but its not retrying
(i didnt checkbox latest version 2021.07.07 because i am using version built today but also fails on latest “stable”)
About this issue
- Original URL
- State: closed
- Created 3 years ago
- Comments: 22 (9 by maintainers)
Commits related to this issue
- Misc fixes - See desc * Remove unnecessary uses of _list_from_options_callback * Fix download tests - Bug from 6e84b21559f586ee4d6affb61688d5c6a0c21221 * Rename ExecAfterDownloadPP to ExecPP and refac... — committed to yt-dlp/yt-dlp by pukkandan 3 years ago
- Misc fixes - See desc * Remove unnecessary uses of _list_from_options_callback * Fix download tests - Bug from bbf18c61905be46de545d5053be5bff53794df52 * Rename ExecAfterDownloadPP to ExecPP and refac... — committed to nixxo/yt-dlp by pukkandan 3 years ago
- Add option `--file-access-retries` (#2066) Closes #517 Authored by: ehoogeveen-medweb — committed to yt-dlp/yt-dlp by ehoogeveen-medweb 3 years ago
The command fails each time, also during each regular download (without any parameters).
Maybe snap version of
yt-dlp
doesn’t have access to the temporary directory? Or it’s using the wrong path?Workaround
I’ve removed the snap version and installed manually and it works fine.