Recently, we were getting the following error in youtube-dl :
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
We weren’t sure what that error meant (in the case of youtube-dl as the video is public) so we updated pip and youtube-dl to be sure that our problem was not that. The commands we used were the following:
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python -m pip install--upgrade pip;
pip install--upgrade youtube-dl;
After the updates, we still got the same error… After some google-fu we read that it could be a caching issue! We cleared the cache as follows:
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youtube-dl --rm-cache-dir;
Guess what? After that, the problem was resolved and we were able to reuse youtube-dl.
While working on a GNU/Linux Fedora 26 virtual machine running under the Qubes 4.0 OS, we installed youtube-dl through dnf to download some media off the net. When we tried to use it, we got the error youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract Initial JS player signature function name. This issue was…
Youtube-DL being an amazing tool as it is, has a way to download Vimeo videos that give the following error: Cannot download embed-only video without embedding URL. Please call youtube-dl with the URL of the page that embeds this video. To do so, we needed to use the --referer parameter…
Following are some rough notes on Installing TensorFlow 2 Object detection on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.We were following this guide (https://tensorflow-object-detection-api-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html) so we will be skipping some steps. We had conda installed already from an older attempt so the following steps worked just fine. conda create -n tensorflow pip python=3.8; conda…
