* Tim Johnson <t...@akwebsoft.com> [151110 14:55]: > * Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> [151110 14:35]: > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 9:47 AM, Tim Johnson <t...@akwebsoft.com> wrote: > > > I've written a command-line "wrapper" for youtube-dl, executing > > is implemented in Python, you might find it easier to "pip install > > youtube_dl" and work with the methods directly: <<...> > > > >>> import youtube_dl > > >>> youtube_dl.YoutubeDL().download(["m39ydsOPSww"]) > > Frankly, I'd prefer - in the long run - to use youtube_dl (the > module). > > But, when I do as you have suggested (and have tried previously) I > get the following: > > youtube_dl.utils.DownloadError: ERROR: no suitable InfoExtractor > It looks as if the developers are constantly upgrading. I just upgraded youtube_dl
sudo pip install --upgrade youtube_dl And ran the code which is provided under the topic "EMBEDDING YOUTUBE-DL" at https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md At I got a successful download, AFAICS -- Tim http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list