youtube-dl: Unable to download purchased movie

Attempted to download a purchased movie to see if I could download it via youtube-dl

Unfortunately, the following trace occurred with the run args:

$ youtube-dl --verbose -ct -u 'username@domain.com' -p 'password' 'z4l7OZLIh9w'

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', '-ct', '-u', '<PRIVATE>', '-p', '<PRIVATE>', 'z4l7OZLIh9w']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.11.15.1
[debug] Python version 2.7.3 - Linux-3.2.0-55-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-12.04-precise
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] Logging in
[youtube] Confirming age
[youtube] z4l7OZLIh9w: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] z4l7OZLIh9w: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] z4l7OZLIh9w: Extracting video information
[youtube] z4l7OZLIh9w: Encrypted signatures detected.
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (40.44), itag 60, html5 player vflqSl9GX
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (40.44), itag 52, html5 player vflqSl9GX
ERROR: no known formats available for video; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 348, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 125, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1452, in _real_extract
    video_url_list = self._get_video_url_list(url_map)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1189, in _get_video_url_list
    raise ExtractorError(u'no known formats available for video')
ExtractorError: no known formats available for video; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update.

Also tried specifying mp4. I’ll try other formats.

About this issue

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State: open
Created 11 years ago
Reactions: 2
Comments: 29 (3 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

[youtube] detect DRM protected videos(#1774) — committed to ytdl-org/youtube-dl by remitamine 6 years ago
[youtube] improve DRM protected videos detection(#1774) — committed to ytdl-org/youtube-dl by remitamine 5 years ago
[youtube] improve DRM protected videos detection(#1774) — committed to meunierd/youtube-dl by remitamine 5 years ago
[youtube] improve DRM protected videos detection(#1774) — committed to meunierd/youtube-dl by remitamine 5 years ago

Most upvoted comments

I’m not exactly sure, but the famous “Never Gonna Give You Up” video from Rick Astley seems to be copyrighted and therfore DRM-protected. I am going to try to download that video later (essentially rickrolling myself 😕) and report back.

Here is the link if you want to try: https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

zhengliw on Oct 22, 2022

Yep, totally works, but just not sure if this is actually DRM-protected, as said.

zhengliw on Oct 22, 2022

It seems that they use itags 60 and 52 for those movies, could you try to run it from source after modifying youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py? it should look like this:

_available_formats = ['38', '37', '46', '22', '45', '35', '44', '34', '18', '43', '6', '5', '36', '17', '13',
                          # Apple HTTP Live Streaming
                          '96', '95', '94', '93', '92', '132', '151',
                          # 3D
                          '85', '84', '102', '83', '101', '82', '100',
                          # Dash video
                          '138', '137', '248', '136', '247', '135', '246',
                          '245', '244', '134', '243', '133', '242', '160',
                          # Dash audio
                          '141', '172', '140', '171', '139',
                          # Rented movies
                          '60', '52', # <= Modification
                          ]

If you prefer I can open a branch with that modification so that you can directly download the source and run it.

jaimeMF on Nov 21, 2013

Might I recommend you obfuscate that password?

HalosGhost on Nov 16, 2013