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The Usage: instruction suggests writing "url" between yt-dlp and the actual video and that's redundant #9556

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rdrg109 opened this issue Mar 29, 2024 · 1 comment
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The Usage: instruction suggests writing "url" between yt-dlp and the actual video and that's redundant #9556

rdrg109 opened this issue Mar 29, 2024 · 1 comment
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In the latest version 2024.03.10, the information on how to use the command which is shown when executing $ yt-dlp (i.e. without any argument) and $ yt-dlp --help is misleading because it suggests writing url between yt-dlp and the actual url of the video.

The instruction shows Usage: yt-dlp [OPTIONS] URL [URL...], but it should be Usage: yt-dlp [OPTIONS] [URL...].

$ ~/Downloads/yt-dlp  --version
2024.03.10

$ ~/Downloads/yt-dlp           

Usage: yt-dlp [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]

yt-dlp: error: You must provide at least one URL.
Type yt-dlp --help to see a list of all options.

$ ~/Downloads/yt-dlp --help | head -n 3
Usage: yt-dlp [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]

Options:

The "Complete Verbose Output" code block contains the complete output of running yt-dlp -vU. The specific error that is produced by writing url between yt-dlp and the url of the video is shown below.

[CommonMistakes] Extracting URL: url
ERROR: [CommonMistakes] You've asked yt-dlp to download the URL "url". That doesn't make any sense. Simply remove the parameter in your command or configuration.
  File "/home/rodrigo/Downloads/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 732, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/home/rodrigo/Downloads/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/commonmistakes.py", line 25, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError(msg, expected=True)

Provide verbose output that clearly demonstrates the problem

  • Run your yt-dlp command with -vU flag added (yt-dlp -vU <your command line>)
  • If using API, add 'verbose': True to YoutubeDL params instead
  • Copy the WHOLE output (starting with [debug] Command-line config) and insert it below

Complete Verbose Output

$ ~/Downloads/yt-dlp -vU url 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9nZ6u15yis'
[debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', 'url', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9nZ6u15yis']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, pref UTF-8, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
[debug] yt-dlp version stable@2024.03.10 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp [615a84447] (zip)
[debug] Python 3.10.12 (CPython x86_64 64bit) - Linux-6.5.0-26-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.35 (OpenSSL 3.0.2 15 Mar 2022, glibc 2.35)
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.4.2 (setts), ffprobe 4.4.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.11.0, brotli-1.0.9, certifi-2020.06.20, mutagen-1.45.1, pyxattr-0.7.2, requests-2.25.1, secretstorage-3.3.1, sqlite3-3.37.2, urllib3-1.26.5, websockets-9.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Request Handlers: urllib
[debug] Loaded 1803 extractors
[debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest
Latest version: stable@2024.03.10 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp
yt-dlp is up to date (stable@2024.03.10 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp)
[CommonMistakes] Extracting URL: url
ERROR: [CommonMistakes] You've asked yt-dlp to download the URL "url". That doesn't make any sense. Simply remove the parameter in your command or configuration.
  File "/home/rodrigo/Downloads/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 732, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/home/rodrigo/Downloads/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/commonmistakes.py", line 25, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError(msg, expected=True)

[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9nZ6u15yis
[youtube] W9nZ6u15yis: Downloading webpage
[youtube] W9nZ6u15yis: Downloading ios player API JSON
[youtube] W9nZ6u15yis: Downloading android player API JSON
[youtube] W9nZ6u15yis: Downloading m3u8 information
[debug] Sort order given by extractor: quality, res, fps, hdr:12, source, vcodec:vp9.2, channels, acodec, lang, proto
[debug] Formats sorted by: hasvid, ie_pref, quality, res, fps, hdr:12(7), source, vcodec:vp9.2(10), channels, acodec, lang, proto, size, br, asr, vext, aext, hasaud, id
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo*+bestaudio/best
[info] W9nZ6u15yis: Downloading 1 format(s): 244+251
[debug] Invoking http downloader on "https://rr6---sn-uqx2-aph6.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1711699110&ei=RiAGZubkE_Pd-LAPi_emoA0&ip=2001%3A1388%3A13a7%3A14a4%3Af911%3A6f0f%3Aaad0%3A279&id=o-AJFRDMboL7AnjcVq5bcrUQfiPUzbWbFQDYQ8i2NoLcSO&itag=244&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&xpc=EgVo2aDSNQ%3D%3D&mh=YJ&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-uqx2-aph6%2Csn-njaeyn7s&ms=au%2Crdu&mv=m&mvi=6&pl=47&initcwndbps=1148750&vprv=1&svpuc=1&mime=video%2Fwebm&gir=yes&clen=9412&dur=10.000&lmt=1671760292336686&mt=1711677172&fvip=3&keepalive=yes&fexp=51141542&c=IOS&txp=443E434&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cxpc%2Cvprv%2Csvpuc%2Cmime%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=AJfQdSswRAIgW4WnoVplStgmGEPWwDazBYDVnbmdyvmCw_oQ5b8qb-ACIFiNilrrOJ794X3TejEIzwU4GGPsd8pi5k7jFeLLMnAl&lsparams=mh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=ALClDIEwRgIhAPa833eTQowGC40xrO4wH5b541G6ggrIdLZMHQWX7qhRAiEAt40H01DDy28aWWxAcMqoBodvjCejiqHe5oBbsrboYbQ%3D"
[download] Destination: Black Screen 10 seconds [W9nZ6u15yis].f244.webm
[download] 100% of    9.19KiB in 00:00:00 at 972.25KiB/s
[debug] Invoking http downloader on "https://rr6---sn-uqx2-aph6.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1711699110&ei=RiAGZveWH7_41sQPpKupsAM&ip=2001%3A1388%3A13a7%3A14a4%3Af911%3A6f0f%3Aaad0%3A279&id=o-ADa8x41qGx5aZPuodfVIk3sZFvusiorxLKcsTNCgA56z&itag=251&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&xpc=EgVo2aDSNQ%3D%3D&mh=YJ&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-uqx2-aph6%2Csn-njaeyn7s&ms=au%2Crdu&mv=m&mvi=6&pl=47&initcwndbps=1148750&vprv=1&svpuc=1&mime=audio%2Fwebm&gir=yes&clen=4870&dur=10.101&lmt=1671759752307491&mt=1711677172&fvip=3&keepalive=yes&fexp=51141542&c=ANDROID&txp=4432434&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cxpc%2Cvprv%2Csvpuc%2Cmime%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=AJfQdSswRAIgQ6OMl-DiUFyoFqYmZ7urQeEJeD-Kf17LvJkvOV3w5oICIDVfFJECeCrihBsNDld8u1A0vWkT5dMS3FlQizlCWcSH&lsparams=mh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=ALClDIEwRAIgDg9S2qUX4g7DQiZZB-cV4wunUPzIUkyVecoA6rrcB50CIE9yq8L0mwMh7qK9Rw5rMbY7iQfIE0s1NbUZ0OTNGbRy"
[download] Destination: Black Screen 10 seconds [W9nZ6u15yis].f251.webm
[download] 100% of    4.76KiB in 00:00:00 at 544.73KiB/s
[Merger] Merging formats into "Black Screen 10 seconds [W9nZ6u15yis].webm"
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffmpeg -y -loglevel repeat+info -i 'file:Black Screen 10 seconds [W9nZ6u15yis].f244.webm' -i 'file:Black Screen 10 seconds [W9nZ6u15yis].f251.webm' -c copy -map 0:v:0 -map 1:a:0 -movflags +faststart 'file:Black Screen 10 seconds [W9nZ6u15yis].temp.webm'
Deleting original file Black Screen 10 seconds [W9nZ6u15yis].f251.webm (pass -k to keep)
Deleting original file Black Screen 10 seconds [W9nZ6u15yis].f244.webm (pass -k to keep)
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$ echo $?
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The instruction shows Usage: yt-dlp [OPTIONS] URL [URL...], but it should be Usage: yt-dlp [OPTIONS] [URL...].

The [URL...] is to signify that you can optionally pass multiple URLs beyond the first URL (which is required, as the program errors if you don't pass one)

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