[SOLVED] Changing proxy settings for youtube-dl

ansikmahapatra · 09-18-2012, 12:32 PM

I installed youtube-dl a few months back and it worked perfectly fine when connected to internet through public wifi hotspots. But I am unable to download videos when these's proxy authentication required while accessing internet. I have gone through the youtube-dl documentation, but I couldn't find my solution there. The error I get now is this:

[youtube] Setting language
WARNING: unable to set language: HTTP Error 407: Proxy Authentication Required
[youtube] BFtv5qe5o3c: Downloading video webpage
ERROR: unable to download video webpage: HTTP Error 407: Proxy Authentication Required

Please help me out, since I am a newbie.

dru8274 · 09-18-2012, 11:08 PM

My knowledge on this is not extensive. But I did through necessity manage to get youtube-dl to work on the authenticated proxy at the local university. Your http_proxy environment variable needs to be set with your specifics for username/password, and the IP-address/port of the proxy. If you export that in the shell prior to using youtube-dl, then it should work.

See below for the general format for setting http_proxy, and a generic example. I hope that helps.

Code:

export http_proxy=http://username:password@yourproxyaddress:proxyport

export http_proxy=http://myname:101010101@proxy.student.otago.ac.nz:3128

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