INTERNAL ERROR: cannot create temporary directory!

[KlaimGames]

Running into some issues using this. Fairly basic setup, but on windows :

`$yt = new YoutubeDl();

$yt->setBinPath(__DIR__.'/yt-dl/yt-dlp');

$collection = $yt->download(
    Options::create()
        ->downloadPath('/path/to/my/downloadfolder')
        ->url('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDAw7vW7H0c')
);`

(downloadfolder being set to a specific folder onto my computer, redacted in here)

Within the download() function, I do a dump of the $buffer to get the info, since it otherwise silently fails. All i get is

INTERNAL ERROR: cannot create temporary directory!

Not sure as to why. If I dump the $process->getCommandLine() to get the command line and run that in my own command line, works no problem, so I am unsure as to what is happening here

Any idea ?

[norkunas]

Hey,

Maybe you are running your script with not the same permissions as directly through terminal?

[KlaimGames]

Hi,

So, as far as I know, it shouldnt be a problem, as its been implemented within a system that already writes files and others ( like uploaded images ). Now, if what is presumably a wrapper for a shell command can, is a different matter, but im not sure as to how to verify that. I guess that the php builds the command line that is going to be executed, but i dont know how to verify if its that execution process that isnt permitted.

Thank you

On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 12:09 AM Tomas Norkūnas @.***> wrote:

Hey,

Maybe you are running your script with not the same permissions as directly through terminal?

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[norkunas]

You could try to run shell_exec with same cmd that works in terminal without this library to check if it works

[KlaimGames]

So, I did just that, getting the command from $process->getCommandLine(), and pasting the result to a shell_exec, it works directly without any issue.

Given that it can generate a functional command line that blindly works in a shell_exec, i could bypass this issue and work with just this at the moment, but obviously, id rather it be fixed properly and correctly. However, from this, I do not know what more I could provide to assist in troubleshooting this.

thank you

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You could try to run shell_exec with same cmd that works in terminal without this library to check if it works

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[norkunas]

Could you try that also with proc_open? also on which OS are you running your app?

[KlaimGames]

Used as follow :

$cmd = $process->getCommandLine(); $proc=proc_open($cmd, array( 0=>array('pipe', 'r'), //stdin 1=>array('pipe', 'w'), //stdout 2=>array('pipe', 'w') //stderr ), $pipes, DIR, null, array('bypass_shell'=>true) ); echo stream_get_contents($pipes[1]); proc_close($proc);

Works fine, with no issue, generating both the video file and json

Im on a local dev environment, on windows.

Thank you

On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 2:21 AM Tomas Norkūnas @.***> wrote:

Could you try that also with proc_open? also on which OS are you running your app?

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[norkunas]

Then I'm not sure and probably can't help anymore because I don't use windows and I suggest to use xdebug then :disappointed:

[KlaimGames]

Ok no worries, I'll work around the issue then, since the generated command does work.

Thank you for your help

On Fri, Mar 17, 2023, 12:52 a.m. Tomas Norkūnas @.***> wrote:

Then I'm not sure and probably can't help anymore because I don't use windows and I suggest to use xdebug then 😞

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[tree1891]

On windows, it occurs when debug [PYI-14352:ERROR] Could not create temporary directory!

[norkunas]

@tree1891 so the error is directly coming from yt-dlp, no?

[tree1891]

only when run yt-dlp command in php, it occurs, but not in command prompt.

[norkunas]

ok, but still, this doesn't indicate that it's library's fault. without a way to reproduce this error i won't be able to help