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$ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbKJt1NQtZE [youtube] wbKJt1NQtZE: Downloading webpage [youtube] wbKJt1NQtZE: Downloading video info webpag

$ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbKJt1NQtZE [youtube] wbKJt1NQtZE: Downloading webpage [youtube] wbKJt1NQtZE: Downloading video info webpage [youtube] wbKJt1NQtZE: Extracting video information [youtube] wbKJt1NQtZE: Downloading MPD manifest WARNING: Requested formats are incompatible for merge and will be merged into mkv. [download] Destination: True Detective - My Least Favorite Life - Lera Lynn Scene-wbKJt1NQtZE.f136.mp4 [download] 19.3% of 35.60MiB at 1.51MiB/s ETA 00:18 Seems to work for me. I always double-quote the parameter anyway (I never trust the shell to handle my strings...) I just tried `youtube-dl wbKJt1NQtZE` and that works too. I didn't know the "v" parameter could be given like that!

JadeNB 11y ago
Very strange. Perhaps it's some setup- or platform-dependent thing; I will file an issue. Thanks for checking! EDIT: Very strange; I thought I'd give a try to what seemed a throwaway comment in your post, about quoting the string, and that fixed it. Thanks! Without the double quotes (which seemed to be unnecessary for you), I still get: $ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbKJt1NQtZE Usage: youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...] youtube-dl: error: You must provide at least one URL. Type youtube-dl --help to see a list of all options. I guess that some alias is grabbing some part of the URL string.
- nathyong 11y ago
  It's possible your shell has some kind of regular expression magic enabled that is eating the '?' and the '=' characters: $ echo youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=wbKJt1NQtZE youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbKJt1NQtZE $ echo youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbKJt1NQtZE zsh: no matches found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbKJt1NQtZE
  - JadeNB 11y ago
    Interesting! It seems that my `echo` is eating any substrings involving `?`. $ bash --version GNU bash, version 4.3.42(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0) Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. $ echo a ? = =? a =
JadeNB 11y ago
In case anyone else hits this (admittedly very specific) problem, nathyong (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11461326 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11461326 )'s suggestion, and a subsequent USE (http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/276731/shell-eating-characters http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/276731/shell-eating-...) question, made it clear that my issue is that I had some time turned on `nullglob`, so `https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbKJt1NQtZE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbKJt1NQtZE ` was being taken as a very strange, certainly non-matching, glob.

JadeNB 11y ago

Very strange. Perhaps it's some setup- or platform-dependent thing; I will file an issue. Thanks for checking! EDIT: Very strange; I thought I'd give a try to what seemed a throwaway comment in your post, about quoting the string, and that fixed it. Thanks! Without the double quotes (which seemed to be unnecessary for you), I still get: $ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbKJt1NQtZE Usage: youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...] youtube-dl: error: You must provide at least one URL. Type youtube-dl --help to see a list of all options. I guess that some alias is grabbing some part of the URL string.

nathyong 11y ago
It's possible your shell has some kind of regular expression magic enabled that is eating the '?' and the '=' characters: $ echo youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=wbKJt1NQtZE youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbKJt1NQtZE $ echo youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbKJt1NQtZE zsh: no matches found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbKJt1NQtZE
- JadeNB 11y ago
  Interesting! It seems that my `echo` is eating any substrings involving `?`. $ bash --version GNU bash, version 4.3.42(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0) Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. $ echo a ? = =? a =

JadeNB 11y ago

In case anyone else hits this (admittedly very specific) problem, nathyong (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11461326 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11461326 )'s suggestion, and a subsequent USE (http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/276731/shell-eating-characters http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/276731/shell-eating-...) question, made it clear that my issue is that I had some time turned on `nullglob`, so `https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbKJt1NQtZE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbKJt1NQtZE ` was being taken as a very strange, certainly non-matching, glob.