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ytdl-org / youtube-dl

Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites
http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/
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Error produced downloading gfycat embed URL. TypeError: object of type 'NoneType' has no len() #6165

Closed woodenphone closed 9 years ago

woodenphone commented 9 years ago

I encountered this traceback when trying to save the embed URL for this video. This embed style URL fails: http://gfycat.com/ifr/JauntyTimelyAmazontreeboa This normal URL succeeds: http://gfycat.com/JauntyTimelyAmazontreeboa

Console log: C:\Users\User\Dropbox\AnonArchive Folder\ctrl-s\tumblr_api_to_db\youtube-dl>yout ube-dl.exe --update youtube-dl is up-to-date (2015.07.04)

C:\Users\User\Dropbox\AnonArchive Folder\ctrl-s\tumblr_api_to_db\youtube-dl>yout ube-dl.exe -v http://gfycat.com/ifr/JauntyTimelyAmazontreeboa [debug] System config: [] [debug] User config: [] [debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://gfycat.com/ifr/JauntyTimelyAmazontre eboa'] [debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252 [debug] youtube-dl version 2015.07.04 [debug] Python version 2.7.8 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 [debug] exe versions: none [debug] Proxy map: {} [Gfycat] ifr: Downloading video info Traceback (most recent call last): File "main.py", line 19, in File "youtube_dlinit.pyo", line 406, in main File "youtube_dlinit.pyo", line 396, in _real_main File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 1501, in download File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 665, in extract_info File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 711, in process_ie_result File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 1171, in process_video_result File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 1236, in process_info TypeError: object of type 'NoneType' has no len()

C:\Users\User\Dropbox\AnonArchive Folder\ctrl-s\tumblr_api_to_db\youtube-dl>yout ube-dl.exe -v http://gfycat.com/JauntyTimelyAmazontreeboa [debug] System config: [] [debug] User config: [] [debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://gfycat.com/JauntyTimelyAmazontreeboa '] [debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252 [debug] youtube-dl version 2015.07.04 [debug] Python version 2.7.8 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 [debug] exe versions: none [debug] Proxy map: {} [Gfycat] JauntyTimelyAmazontreeboa: Downloading video info [debug] Invoking downloader on u'http://zippy.gfycat.com/JauntyTimelyAmazontreeb oa.mp4' [download] Destination: JauntyTimelyAmazontreeboa-JauntyTimelyAmazontreeboa.mp4 [download] 100% of 331.12KiB in 00:03

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yan12125 commented 9 years ago

Thanks for the report. Embed URLs will work in the next version.