WARNING: unable to set language: <urlopen error [Errno 60] Operation timed out>

[JCwinning]

Please help me out here!

I am running mac ox 10.9 python 2.7

aca80165:bin apple$ youtube-dl -U youtube-dl is up-to-date (2013.12.11.2)

error message:

aca80165:bin apple$ youtube-dl "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV9L5Ht9LgY" [youtube] Setting language WARNING: unable to set language: <urlopen error [Errno 60] Operation timed out> [youtube] bV9L5Ht9LgY: Downloading webpage ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 60] Operation timed out>

[jaimeMF]

Please port the full output of running youtube-dl "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV9L5Ht9LgY" --verbose.

[JCwinning]

aca80165:bin apple$ youtube-dl "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV9L5Ht9LgY" --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV9L5Ht9LgY', '--verbose']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.12.11.2
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Darwin-13.0.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
WARNING: unable to set language: <urlopen error [Errno 60] Operation timed out>
[youtube] bV9L5Ht9LgY: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 60] Operation timed out>
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 167, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1029, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 404, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 422, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 561, in https_open
    return self.do_open(HTTPSConnectionV3, req)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1184, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)

[JCwinning]

any help?

[phihag]

Mmm, this looks really strange, so I unfortunately can't offer a definitive diagnosis, but here are a couple of options.

• Can you consistently reproduce this problem?
• Can you reproduce this problem with the newest version of youtube-dl? We changed some timeout values, but these are unlikely the cause of the problem unless you're using an extremely slow internet connection.
• Can you reproduce the problem from multiple networks? It may be a corporate/national firewall blocking YouTube, or an ISP issue. In which networks can you see the problem (i.e. which countries/ISPs, and is it a company or private network)?
• Does this problem occur on other websites? What output do you get for youtube-dl -v http://vimeo.com/56015672?
• Can you see the videos or at least the general YouTube page in your web browser?

[phihag]

If you are willing to invest the time and effort, you can also drop me an email so that we can arrange remote desktop access. With a packet capture, we could make sure that we pinpoint the problem. Feel free to create one yourself, if possible including you accessing YouTube with your browser.

[JCwinning]

Solved. just remember to change Proxy when you are in countries where can not access to youtube.