Description of problem: I was trying to download this page : http://hunty.biz/album/nexus-genesis , and it crashed at "[download] Downloading video 18 of 21". Version-Release number of selected component: youtube-dl-2015.09.09-1.fc22 Additional info: reporter: libreport-2.6.2 cmdline: /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/youtube-dl -x -c -R 20 --audio-format vorbis --autonumber-size 2 -o '%(autonumber)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' http://hunty.biz/album/nexus-genesis dso_list: python-libs-2.7.10-8.fc22.x86_64 executable: /usr/bin/youtube-dl kernel: 4.1.8-200.fc22.x86_64 runlevel: N 5 type: Python uid: 1000 Truncated backtrace: urllib2.py:285:get_type:ValueError: unknown url type: //popplers5.bandcamp.com/download/track?enc=mp3-128&fsig=4b919b6c34bc462a49b9f509e14e2f11&id=1264847924&stream=1&ts=1443327390.0 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 9, in <module> load_entry_point('youtube-dl==2015.9.9', 'console_scripts', 'youtube-dl')() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 410, in main _real_main(argv) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 400, in _real_main retcode = ydl.download(all_urls) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1658, in download url, force_generic_extractor=self.params.get('force_generic_extractor', False)) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 671, in extract_info return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 724, in process_ie_result extra_info=extra_info) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 671, in extract_info return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 832, in process_ie_result extra_info=extra) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 724, in process_ie_result extra_info=extra_info) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 671, in extract_info return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 717, in process_ie_result return self.process_video_result(ie_result, download=download) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1328, in process_video_result self.process_info(new_info) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1590, in process_info success = dl(filename, info_dict) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1532, in dl return fd.download(name, info) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 342, in download return self.real_download(filename, info_dict) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 60, in real_download data = self.ydl.urlopen(request) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1865, in urlopen return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 423, in open protocol = req.get_type() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 285, in get_type raise ValueError, "unknown url type: %s" % self.__original ValueError: unknown url type: //popplers5.bandcamp.com/download/track?enc=mp3-128&fsig=4b919b6c34bc462a49b9f509e14e2f11&id=1264847924&stream=1&ts=1443327390.0 Local variables in innermost frame: self: <urllib2.Request instance at 0x7fc4f1e26d88>
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Created attachment 1080018 [details] File: environ
OK, this is wrong URL, missing scheme.
This was solved here: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/7077