youtube-dl: [Youtube] HTTP Error 404: Not Found (caused by HTTPError()) on Python 2
$ youtube-dl "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdO7_GrRttM" --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdO7_GrRttM', u'--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.03.18
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Linux-3.16.0-60-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-14.04-trusty
[debug] exe versions: avconv 9.18-6, avprobe 9.18-6, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] UdO7_GrRttM: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 404: Not Found (caused by HTTPError()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 365, in _request_webpage
return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1929, in urlopen
return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 410, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 523, in http_response
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 448, in error
return self._call_chain(*args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 531, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
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@abhigenie92 There’s no need to escape special characters in quotation marks. The following command should work fine: