problems downloading youtube playlists #3817

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opened 2026-02-21 00:00:13 -05:00 by deekerman · 4 comments

deekerman commented

2026-02-21 00:00:13 -05:00

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Originally created by @kaefert on GitHub (Jan 7, 2015).

Hi there!

I've downloaded the latest youtube-dl like this:
curl https://yt-dl.org/downloads/2015.01.07.2/youtube-dl -o youtube-dl

confirming version:

./youtube-dl --version
2015.01.07.2

trying to download a youtube playlist (some playlists work without a problem, this one doesn't..)

./youtube-dl --verbose --prefer-ffmpeg --write-sub --write-auto-sub --sub-lang 'en,de' -f 264+141/264+140/137+141/137+140/136+141/136+140/22/135+141/135+140/134+141/134+140/18 "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVXq77mXV53_3HqhCLGv4mz3oVGYd2Aup"
[youtube:playlist] PLVXq77mXV53_3HqhCLGv4mz3oVGYd2Aup: Downloading webpage
[youtube:playlist] PLVXq77mXV53_3HqhCLGv4mz3oVGYd2Aup: Downloading page #1
[youtube:playlist] PLVXq77mXV53_3HqhCLGv4mz3oVGYd2Aup: Downloading page #2
[youtube:playlist] PLVXq77mXV53_3HqhCLGv4mz3oVGYd2Aup: Downloading page #3
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: <urlopen error [Errno 8] _ssl.c:510: EOF occurred in violation of protocol> (caused by URLError(SSLError(8, '_ssl.c:510: EOF occurred in violation of protocol'),))

a second try, with --verbose option:

$ ./youtube-dl --verbose --prefer-ffmpeg --write-sub --write-auto-sub --sub-lang 'en,de' -f 264+141/264+140/137+141/137+140/136+141/136+140/22/135+141/135+140/134+141/134+140/18 "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVXq77mXV53_3HqhCLGv4mz3oVGYd2Aup"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', '--prefer-ffmpeg', '--write-sub', '--write-auto-sub', '--sub-lang', 'en,de', '-f', '264+141/264+140/137+141/137+140/136+141/136+140/22/135+141/135+140/134+141/134+140/18', 'https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVXq77mXV53_3HqhCLGv4mz3oVGYd2Aup']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.01.07.2
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Linux-3.13.0-37-generic-x86_64-with-LinuxMint-17.1-rebecca
[debug] exe versions: avconv 11, avprobe 11, ffmpeg N-68674-gb51cc70, ffprobe N-68674-gb51cc70
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube:playlist] PLVXq77mXV53_3HqhCLGv4mz3oVGYd2Aup: Downloading webpage
[youtube:playlist] PLVXq77mXV53_3HqhCLGv4mz3oVGYd2Aup: Downloading page #1
[youtube:playlist] PLVXq77mXV53_3HqhCLGv4mz3oVGYd2Aup: Downloading page #2
[youtube:playlist] PLVXq77mXV53_3HqhCLGv4mz3oVGYd2Aup: Downloading page #3
[youtube:playlist] PLVXq77mXV53_3HqhCLGv4mz3oVGYd2Aup: Downloading page #4
[download] Downloading playlist: Top Classical Music Tracks
[youtube:playlist] playlist Top Classical Music Tracks: Collected 499 video ids (downloading 499 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 499
[youtube] 75uRFWqbs58: Downloading webpage
[youtube] 75uRFWqbs58: Extracting video information
[youtube] 75uRFWqbs58: Looking for automatic captions
WARNING: Couldn't find automatic captions for 75uRFWqbs58
WARNING: video doesn't have subtitles
[youtube] 75uRFWqbs58: Downloading DASH manifest
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://r2---sn-oxmua5txg-8pxe.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id=ef9b91156a9bb39f&itag=137&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&mm=31&gcr=at&mv=u&ms=au&ratebypass=yes&mime=video/mp4&gir=yes&clen=8671442&lmt=1419392160982533&dur=178.978&sver=3&signature=23314047E752FE9BA7D7508543C884DAEDC9473D.9269AF1DB12400E2AB4E13DEB3289ADB871A8451&mt=1420634456&upn=9wRXQN8QuxA&fexp=900718,904726,917000,924637,927622,932404,9405454,941004,943605,943917,947209,947218,948124,952302,952605,952901,955301,957103,957105,957201&key=dg_yt0&ip=2a02:60:106:9a21:e834:98c7:2f0:92d9&ipbits=0&expire=1420656267&sparams=ip,ipbits,expire,id,itag,source,requiressl,mm,gcr,mv,ms,ratebypass,mime,gir,clen,lmt,dur'
ERROR: unable to open for writing: [Errno 36] File name too long: '\xe3\x83\x97\xe3\x83\x83\xe3\x83\x81\xe3\x83\xbc\xe3\x83\x8b - \xe6\xad\x8c\xe5\x8a\x87\xef\xbd\xa2\xe3\x83\x88\xe3\x82\xa5\xe3\x83\xbc\xe3\x83\xa9\xe3\x83\xb3\xe3\x83\x89\xe3\x83\x83\xe3\x83\x88\xef\xbd\xa3\xef\xbc\x9a\xe8\xaa\xb0\xe3\x82\x82\xe5\xaf\x9d\xe3\x81\xa6\xe3\x81\xaf\xe3\x81\xaa\xe3\x82\x89\xe3\x81\xaa\xe3\x81\x84(\xe7\xac\xac3\xe5\xb9\x95)\xef\xbc\xbb\xe3\x83\x8a\xe3\x82\xaf\xe3\x82\xbd\xe3\x82\xb9\xe3\x83\xbb\xe3\x82\xaf\xe3\x83\xa9\xe3\x82\xb7\xe3\x83\x83\xe3\x82\xaf\xe3\x83\xbb\xe3\x82\xad\xe3\x83\xa5\xe3\x83\xac\xe3\x83\xbc\xe3\x82\xb7\xe3\x83\xa7\xe3\x83\xb3 #\xe7\x89\xb9\xe5\x88\xa5\xe7\xb7\xa8\xef\xbc\x9a\xe3\x82\xb5\xe3\x83\x83\xe3\x82\xab\xe3\x83\xbcW\xe6\x9d\xaf\xef\xbc\xbd-75uRFWqbs58.f137.mp4.part'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 157, in real_download
    (stream, tmpfilename) = sanitize_open(tmpfilename, open_mode)
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 250, in sanitize_open
    stream = open(encodeFilename(filename), open_mode)
IOError: [Errno 36] File name too long: '\xe3\x83\x97\xe3\x83\x83\xe3\x83\x81\xe3\x83\xbc\xe3\x83\x8b - \xe6\xad\x8c\xe5\x8a\x87\xef\xbd\xa2\xe3\x83\x88\xe3\x82\xa5\xe3\x83\xbc\xe3\x83\xa9\xe3\x83\xb3\xe3\x83\x89\xe3\x83\x83\xe3\x83\x88\xef\xbd\xa3\xef\xbc\x9a\xe8\xaa\xb0\xe3\x82\x82\xe5\xaf\x9d\xe3\x81\xa6\xe3\x81\xaf\xe3\x81\xaa\xe3\x82\x89\xe3\x81\xaa\xe3\x81\x84(\xe7\xac\xac3\xe5\xb9\x95)\xef\xbc\xbb\xe3\x83\x8a\xe3\x82\xaf\xe3\x82\xbd\xe3\x82\xb9\xe3\x83\xbb\xe3\x82\xaf\xe3\x83\xa9\xe3\x82\xb7\xe3\x83\x83\xe3\x82\xaf\xe3\x83\xbb\xe3\x82\xad\xe3\x83\xa5\xe3\x83\xac\xe3\x83\xbc\xe3\x82\xb7\xe3\x83\xa7\xe3\x83\xb3 #\xe7\x89\xb9\xe5\x88\xa5\xe7\xb7\xa8\xef\xbc\x9a\xe3\x82\xb5\xe3\x83\x83\xe3\x82\xab\xe3\x83\xbcW\xe6\x9d\xaf\xef\xbc\xbd-75uRFWqbs58.f137.mp4.part'

Originally created by @kaefert on GitHub (Jan 7, 2015). Hi there! I've downloaded the latest youtube-dl like this: curl https://yt-dl.org/downloads/2015.01.07.2/youtube-dl -o youtube-dl confirming version: ``` ./youtube-dl --version 2015.01.07.2 ``` trying to download a youtube playlist (some playlists work without a problem, this one doesn't..) ``` ./youtube-dl --verbose --prefer-ffmpeg --write-sub --write-auto-sub --sub-lang 'en,de' -f 264+141/264+140/137+141/137+140/136+141/136+140/22/135+141/135+140/134+141/134+140/18 "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVXq77mXV53_3HqhCLGv4mz3oVGYd2Aup" [youtube:playlist] PLVXq77mXV53_3HqhCLGv4mz3oVGYd2Aup: Downloading webpage [youtube:playlist] PLVXq77mXV53_3HqhCLGv4mz3oVGYd2Aup: Downloading page #1 [youtube:playlist] PLVXq77mXV53_3HqhCLGv4mz3oVGYd2Aup: Downloading page #2 [youtube:playlist] PLVXq77mXV53_3HqhCLGv4mz3oVGYd2Aup: Downloading page #3 ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: <urlopen error [Errno 8] _ssl.c:510: EOF occurred in violation of protocol> (caused by URLError(SSLError(8, '_ssl.c:510: EOF occurred in violation of protocol'),)) ``` a second try, with --verbose option: ``` $ ./youtube-dl --verbose --prefer-ffmpeg --write-sub --write-auto-sub --sub-lang 'en,de' -f 264+141/264+140/137+141/137+140/136+141/136+140/22/135+141/135+140/134+141/134+140/18 "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVXq77mXV53_3HqhCLGv4mz3oVGYd2Aup" [debug] System config: [] [debug] User config: [] [debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', '--prefer-ffmpeg', '--write-sub', '--write-auto-sub', '--sub-lang', 'en,de', '-f', '264+141/264+140/137+141/137+140/136+141/136+140/22/135+141/135+140/134+141/134+140/18', 'https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVXq77mXV53_3HqhCLGv4mz3oVGYd2Aup'] [debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8 [debug] youtube-dl version 2015.01.07.2 [debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Linux-3.13.0-37-generic-x86_64-with-LinuxMint-17.1-rebecca [debug] exe versions: avconv 11, avprobe 11, ffmpeg N-68674-gb51cc70, ffprobe N-68674-gb51cc70 [debug] Proxy map: {} [youtube:playlist] PLVXq77mXV53_3HqhCLGv4mz3oVGYd2Aup: Downloading webpage [youtube:playlist] PLVXq77mXV53_3HqhCLGv4mz3oVGYd2Aup: Downloading page #1 [youtube:playlist] PLVXq77mXV53_3HqhCLGv4mz3oVGYd2Aup: Downloading page #2 [youtube:playlist] PLVXq77mXV53_3HqhCLGv4mz3oVGYd2Aup: Downloading page #3 [youtube:playlist] PLVXq77mXV53_3HqhCLGv4mz3oVGYd2Aup: Downloading page #4 [download] Downloading playlist: Top Classical Music Tracks [youtube:playlist] playlist Top Classical Music Tracks: Collected 499 video ids (downloading 499 of them) [download] Downloading video 1 of 499 [youtube] 75uRFWqbs58: Downloading webpage [youtube] 75uRFWqbs58: Extracting video information [youtube] 75uRFWqbs58: Looking for automatic captions WARNING: Couldn't find automatic captions for 75uRFWqbs58 WARNING: video doesn't have subtitles [youtube] 75uRFWqbs58: Downloading DASH manifest [debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://r2---sn-oxmua5txg-8pxe.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id=ef9b91156a9bb39f&itag=137&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&mm=31&gcr=at&mv=u&ms=au&ratebypass=yes&mime=video/mp4&gir=yes&clen=8671442&lmt=1419392160982533&dur=178.978&sver=3&signature=23314047E752FE9BA7D7508543C884DAEDC9473D.9269AF1DB12400E2AB4E13DEB3289ADB871A8451&mt=1420634456&upn=9wRXQN8QuxA&fexp=900718,904726,917000,924637,927622,932404,9405454,941004,943605,943917,947209,947218,948124,952302,952605,952901,955301,957103,957105,957201&key=dg_yt0&ip=2a02:60:106:9a21:e834:98c7:2f0:92d9&ipbits=0&expire=1420656267&sparams=ip,ipbits,expire,id,itag,source,requiressl,mm,gcr,mv,ms,ratebypass,mime,gir,clen,lmt,dur' ERROR: unable to open for writing: [Errno 36] File name too long: '\xe3\x83\x97\xe3\x83\x83\xe3\x83\x81\xe3\x83\xbc\xe3\x83\x8b - \xe6\xad\x8c\xe5\x8a\x87\xef\xbd\xa2\xe3\x83\x88\xe3\x82\xa5\xe3\x83\xbc\xe3\x83\xa9\xe3\x83\xb3\xe3\x83\x89\xe3\x83\x83\xe3\x83\x88\xef\xbd\xa3\xef\xbc\x9a\xe8\xaa\xb0\xe3\x82\x82\xe5\xaf\x9d\xe3\x81\xa6\xe3\x81\xaf\xe3\x81\xaa\xe3\x82\x89\xe3\x81\xaa\xe3\x81\x84(\xe7\xac\xac3\xe5\xb9\x95)\xef\xbc\xbb\xe3\x83\x8a\xe3\x82\xaf\xe3\x82\xbd\xe3\x82\xb9\xe3\x83\xbb\xe3\x82\xaf\xe3\x83\xa9\xe3\x82\xb7\xe3\x83\x83\xe3\x82\xaf\xe3\x83\xbb\xe3\x82\xad\xe3\x83\xa5\xe3\x83\xac\xe3\x83\xbc\xe3\x82\xb7\xe3\x83\xa7\xe3\x83\xb3 #\xe7\x89\xb9\xe5\x88\xa5\xe7\xb7\xa8\xef\xbc\x9a\xe3\x82\xb5\xe3\x83\x83\xe3\x82\xab\xe3\x83\xbcW\xe6\x9d\xaf\xef\xbc\xbd-75uRFWqbs58.f137.mp4.part' Traceback (most recent call last): File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 157, in real_download (stream, tmpfilename) = sanitize_open(tmpfilename, open_mode) File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 250, in sanitize_open stream = open(encodeFilename(filename), open_mode) IOError: [Errno 36] File name too long: '\xe3\x83\x97\xe3\x83\x83\xe3\x83\x81\xe3\x83\xbc\xe3\x83\x8b - \xe6\xad\x8c\xe5\x8a\x87\xef\xbd\xa2\xe3\x83\x88\xe3\x82\xa5\xe3\x83\xbc\xe3\x83\xa9\xe3\x83\xb3\xe3\x83\x89\xe3\x83\x83\xe3\x83\x88\xef\xbd\xa3\xef\xbc\x9a\xe8\xaa\xb0\xe3\x82\x82\xe5\xaf\x9d\xe3\x81\xa6\xe3\x81\xaf\xe3\x81\xaa\xe3\x82\x89\xe3\x81\xaa\xe3\x81\x84(\xe7\xac\xac3\xe5\xb9\x95)\xef\xbc\xbb\xe3\x83\x8a\xe3\x82\xaf\xe3\x82\xbd\xe3\x82\xb9\xe3\x83\xbb\xe3\x82\xaf\xe3\x83\xa9\xe3\x82\xb7\xe3\x83\x83\xe3\x82\xaf\xe3\x83\xbb\xe3\x82\xad\xe3\x83\xa5\xe3\x83\xac\xe3\x83\xbc\xe3\x82\xb7\xe3\x83\xa7\xe3\x83\xb3 #\xe7\x89\xb9\xe5\x88\xa5\xe7\xb7\xa8\xef\xbc\x9a\xe3\x82\xb5\xe3\x83\x83\xe3\x82\xab\xe3\x83\xbcW\xe6\x9d\xaf\xef\xbc\xbd-75uRFWqbs58.f137.mp4.part' ```

deekerman commented

2026-02-21 00:00:15 -05:00

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@sf55 commented on GitHub (Jan 8, 2015):

Have you also tried it with the --playlist-start option?

I'm having similar problems. In my case youtube-dl only downloads the first video of the playlist.

@sf55 commented on GitHub (Jan 8, 2015): Have you also tried it with the --playlist-start option? I'm having similar problems. In my case youtube-dl only downloads the first video of the playlist.

deekerman commented

2026-02-21 00:00:15 -05:00

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@kaefert commented on GitHub (Jan 8, 2015):

I found that on a different system it worked - and wrote a file with lots of chinese characters, so I guess there is something missing in my terminal of the first PC I tried that prevents youtube-dl from recognizing the correct file-name encoding?

But also I regularly stumble upon some errors (during downloading lists) like:
YouTube said: This video does not exist.

It would be brilliant if there was a option to just continue with the next file and simply skip the error

@kaefert commented on GitHub (Jan 8, 2015): I found that on a different system it worked - and wrote a file with lots of chinese characters, so I guess there is something missing in my terminal of the first PC I tried that prevents youtube-dl from recognizing the correct file-name encoding? But also I regularly stumble upon some errors (during downloading lists) like: `YouTube said: This video does not exist.` It would be brilliant if there was a option to just continue with the next file and simply skip the error

deekerman commented

2026-02-21 00:00:16 -05:00

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@jaimeMF commented on GitHub (Jan 8, 2015):

@kaefert --ignore-errors should work.
About the File name too long, in which directory are you running youtube-dl from? maybe the filesystem is limiting the filename size.

@jaimeMF commented on GitHub (Jan 8, 2015): @kaefert `--ignore-errors` should work. About the `File name too long`, in which directory are you running youtube-dl from? maybe the filesystem is limiting the filename size.

deekerman commented

2026-02-21 00:00:16 -05:00

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@kaefert commented on GitHub (Jan 8, 2015):

it was on an ext4 formatted disk = system disk in the path /home/kaefert/Videos/youtube/ - but I dont think there is any filesystem that allows a file name with a length of 732 characters. Correctly encoded the filename is only 89 characters in length (including .part) -->

プッチーニ - 歌劇｢トゥーランドット｣：誰も寝てはならない(第3幕)［ナクソス・クラシック・キュレーション #特別編：サッカーW杯］-75uRFWqbs58.mp4.part

thanks for the --ignore-errors option will try that :)

@kaefert commented on GitHub (Jan 8, 2015): it was on an ext4 formatted disk = system disk in the path /home/kaefert/Videos/youtube/ - but I dont think there is any filesystem that allows a file name with a length of 732 characters. Correctly encoded the filename is only 89 characters in length (including .part) --> ``` プッチーニ - 歌劇｢トゥーランドット｣：誰も寝てはならない(第3幕)［ナクソス・クラシック・キュレーション #特別編：サッカーW杯］-75uRFWqbs58.mp4.part ``` thanks for the --ignore-errors option will try that :)