I don't really know how restrictive YouTube is with regards to allowing content being downloaded, but basically there are certain videos that I can download - mostly the ones uploaded by regular channels and ones I cannot - from what I've found mostly music videos and videos with only audio and a static image, which is mostly the kind of stuff I would want to download. I get the following error everytime :
$ # music video - doesn't work$ ytdl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb9Lw-pxCew --verbose[debug] System config: [][debug] User config: [][debug] Custom config: [][debug] Command-line args: ['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb9Lw-pxCew', '--verbose'][debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.03.24[debug] Python version 3.8.2 (CPython) - Linux-4.4.0-17763-Microsoft-x86_64-with-glibc2.29[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.4, ffprobe 4.2.4, rtmpdump 2.4[debug] Proxy map: {}[youtube] nb9Lw-pxCew: Downloading webpageERROR: No video formats found; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 797, in extract_info ie_result = ie.extract(url) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 530, in extract ie_result = self._real_extract(url) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 2364, in _real_extract self._sort_formats(formats) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1327, in _sort_formats raise ExtractorError('No video formats found')youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: No video formats found; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.$ # regular YT video - works$ ytdl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3In3u2QpSUE[youtube] 3In3u2QpSUE: Downloading webpage[download] Destination: BMW’s Billion Euro R&D Facility-3In3u2QpSUE.f313.webm[download] 0.1% of 1.01GiB at 595.75KiB/s ETA 29:39^CERROR: Interrupted by userThe selective nature leads me to believe that this might be an issue with Youtube. Here is the link I could download and here is the link I couldn't.