commit c8183e661d629bd7d86d38eda9e0013e2aad682e parent 053c94f1b358a44789c38efd916904ce2733fd51 Author: Sergey M <dstftw@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:01:30 +0600 [README] Document special characters escaping (#5538) Diffstat:
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md @@ -358,6 +358,22 @@ YouTube has switched to a new video info format in July 2011 which is not suppor YouTube requires an additional signature since September 2012 which is not supported by old versions of youtube-dl. See [above](#how-do-i-update-youtube-dl) for how to update youtube-dl. +### Video URL contains an ampersand and I'm getting some strange output `[1] 2839` or `'v' is not recognized as an internal or external command` ### + +That's actually the output from your shell. Since ampersand is one of the special shell characters it's interpreted by shell preventing you from passing the whole URL to youtube-dl. To disable your shell from interpreting the ampersands (or any other special characters) you have to either put the whole URL in quotes or escape them with a backslash (which approach will work depends on your shell). + +For example if your URL is https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=48&v=e2CXaJv0cMw you should end up with following command: + +```youtube-dl 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=48&v=e2CXaJv0cMw'``` + +or + +```youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=48\&v=e2CXaJv0cMw``` + +For Windows you have to use the double quotes: + +```youtube-dl "https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=48&v=e2CXaJv0cMw"``` + ### ExtractorError: Could not find JS function u'OF' In February 2015, the new YouTube player contained a character sequence in a string that was misinterpreted by old versions of youtube-dl. See [above](#how-do-i-update-youtube-dl) for how to update youtube-dl.