On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:42:24 -0600
Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote:

...

> I use youtube-dl all of the time.  Works great.  But as the youtube
> site changes you need to keep the script updated.  Since it is just a
> script usually the latest one from Sid can be used on the old Stable
> with no trouble.  Works for me.
> 
> >  $ youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dREKkAk628I&feature=related
> > [1] 18854
> 
> You almost always need to quote the URL.  See that "&" in it?  That
> ampersand is special to the shell.  It says to run the commandin the
> background.  URLs often have those.  Therefore you often need to quote
> the URL when used as a command line option argument.

Just deleting everything in the url after the v=xxxxxxxxxxx works, too.

Celejar
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