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I don't know what happened now but I'm unable to download any youtube video. Earlier it was working properly. I'm working on Ubuntu 13.04

ravbholua@ravbholua-Aspire-5315:~$ youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONWvX8ESrsk

[youtube] Setting language

[youtube] ONWvX8ESrsk: Downloading video webpage

[youtube] ONWvX8ESrsk: Downloading video info webpage

[youtube] ONWvX8ESrsk: Extracting video information

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main

    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code

    exec code in run_globals

  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/__main__.py", line 7, in <module>

  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/__init__.py", line 536, in main

  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/__init__.py", line 520, in _real_main

  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/FileDownloader.py", line 475, in download

  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/InfoExtractors.py", line 80, in extract

  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/InfoExtractors.py", line 405, in _real_extract

  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/InfoExtractors.py", line 405, in <genexpr>

KeyError: 'sig'

ravbholua@ravbholua-Aspire-5315:~$ 

The youtube-dl script comes with its own update mechanism. Simply run this to update it:

$ youtube-dl -U

See the help (--help):

-U, --update        update this program to latest version. Make sure 

                    that you have sufficient permissions (run with sudo if 

                    needed)

This is a little cat and mouse game that users of this script have to periodically update the script, because YouTube breaks the ability to download videos from the site.

I would also encourage you to use single/double quotes when passing the URLs to youtube-dl via the command line on the off chance that they include unusual characters such as question marks and ampersands. This way, the shell does not interpret those characters!

Here's a example of using single quotes:

$ youtube-dl 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONWvX8ESrsk'

mps-youtube is a new tool which, besides being able to download
YouTube videos (either the whole video or just the audio), can also
search and play YouTube videos and create local playlists, all from
the command line.

Installation

Install pip

sudo apt-get install python-pip

Then install mps-youtube using pip:

sudo pip install mps-youtube

You'll also need mplayer

sudo apt-get install mplayer

Usage

To run mps-youtube, use the following command:

mpsyt

To search for a video on YouTube, prefix your search with either "." or "/".

Example: to search for "pantera", use:

.pantera

A full tutorial can be found here

For me the following lines worked:

sudo apt-get remove -y youtube-dl

wget -O - https://yt-dl.org/latest/youtube-dl | sudo tee /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl > /dev/null

sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

hash -r

Update youtube-dl by adding this PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install youtube-dl

Then you may download any video as usual. For example:

youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix1rD4JD3eo

Note: It still could be downloaded using pip. It is OS independent!