rg3/youtube-dl — Issue #293: youtube-dl fails to use proxy
Author: patricklauer
Created: 2012-02-25 15:55:46+00:00
State: open

$ http_proxy="127.0.0.1:3128" youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4KV7e8kwbI
[youtube] Setting language
WARNING: unable to set language:
[youtube] z4KV7e8kwbI: Downloading video webpage
ERROR: unable to download video webpage:

--> of course it doesn't work if you don't use the proxy server ...