download youtube video which is not available in your country

[pooksahib]

Hi. A favourite youtube channel of mine has been revamped and now the videos are “not available in your country” (they're only available in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Lichenstein). It seems a bit unnecessary as it's the channel of a popular singer (well, I like him):
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjnS3NTENxFqJ3CByeISKlg

I can watch the videos by putting a German proxy into my Firefox settings but I haven't been able to find a way to download them.

My usual downloader – Video DownloadHelper extension – saves it as a webm file which I can't play. A couple of other Firefox plugins which add a download button to the youtube page don't work either.

Can anyone suggest a way to download such videos? My thanks if you can.

[october262]

Try this - https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/crossfit/comments/4u4hsh/how_to_watch_yo..._your_country/

[pooksahib]

The 'pak' trick almost worked - video looked like it was going to play but just constantly buffers. But I can watch by other means. It's downloading I want to do. Thanks anyway!

[hech54]

GEMA's revenge. For years GEMA never allowed Germans to watch talented artists from around the world, now that GEMA has been almost forced to allow talented artists from around the world to be shown on YouTube....they are not allowing foreigners to see their talent-less Schlager crap to be shown outside of Germany.

[jimdagys]

I went to that youtube "channel" and chose this one:
Udo Jürgens - Der Erste Sahne Mix (ZDF-Hitparty 31.12.2007)
It is 8 minutes and 21 seconds and the URL is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgu17vycoGU
(I downloaded it and uploaded it here for your convenience):
http://files.videohelp.com/u/61125/output.mp4
When I put that Youtube URL in Firefox it said:
"The uploader has not made this video available in your country. Sorry about that."
I put that url in youtube-dl:

youtube-dl "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgu17vycoGU"

And it said:
"ERROR: YouTube said: This video is available in Austria, Switzerland, Germany, L
iechtenstein only"
I went to this proxy website:
spys.ru/free-proxy-list/DE/
(see screenshot #1 white circle) and chose German proxy:
5.189.152.50: 3128
I used this code (the F code which gives a list of available resolutions):

youtube-dl --proxy "5.189.152.50: 3128" -F "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgu17vycoGU"

and a list of available resolutions was given. I chose
18
which is 640x360.
The complete command is here:

youtube-dl --proxy "5.189.152.50: 3128" -f 18 "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgu17vycoGU"

This downloaded the video with good audio.
As an experiment I used this command (the g command):

youtube-dl --proxy "5.189.152.50: 3128" -g "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgu17vycoGU"

I got two very long URLs, both which end in "yes" (see bottom of this post):
I put the first url into Firefox (no proxy) and it downloaded the video, but there was no sound.
I put the second url into Firefox (no proxy) and it downloaded the audio in webm file.
I don't know what webm audio is, but
I used Zamzar (online converter) to convert the webm to mp3 audio.
I renamed both audio and video files (to "play") and put them into the youtube-dl folder.
(See screenshot #2 blue circles.)
I used this command:

ffmpeg -i play.mp4 -i play.mp3 -c copy output.mp4

and it instantly made a new file (see red circle) that contained both audio and video.
You can also download it here:
http://files.videohelp.com/u/61125/output.mp4

C:\youtube-dl>youtube-dl --proxy "5.189.152.50: 3128" -g "https://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=cgu17vycoGU"

https://r1---sn-a8au-q0ne.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?mt=1482580940&expire=148
2602844&lmt=1480929397306620&ei=_GReWLOdC-OKjAaQwpqwBw&upn=-Omqh7tx7kY&clen=7250
5195&key=yt6&requiressl=yes&gir=yes&ip=2a02%3Ac207%3A2009%3A770%3A%3A1&sparams=c
len%2Cdur%2Cei%2Cgcr%2Cgir%2Cid%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Ckeepalive%2
Clmt%2Cmime%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cpl%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cupn%2Cexpire&keepal
ive=yes&gcr=de&id=o-AG3UVwh9EMurHm3-hqADq50C1974oQcfXKe3rXgj_YJo&initcwndbps=137
2500&pl=45&dur=500.560&mime=video%2Fmp4&ms=au&source=youtube&mv=m&ipbits=0&mm=31
&mn=sn-a8au-q0ne&itag=135&signature=670C7EBCFDF69D5AF259E83A7B2AA23C5990C489.11B
73940B6D16F62FC8B852FC7C0C01B55E4496F&ratebypass=yes

https://r1---sn-a8au-q0ne.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?mt=1482580940&expire=148
2602844&lmt=1480931271757433&ei=_GReWLOdC-OKjAaQwpqwBw&upn=-Omqh7tx7kY&clen=8229
743&key=yt6&requiressl=yes&gir=yes&ip=2a02%3Ac207%3A2009%3A770%3A%3A1&sparams=cl
en%2Cdur%2Cei%2Cgcr%2Cgir%2Cid%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Ckeepalive%2C
lmt%2Cmime%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cpl%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cupn%2Cexpire&keepali
ve=yes&gcr=de&id=o-AG3UVwh9EMurHm3-hqADq50C1974oQcfXKe3rXgj_YJo&initcwndbps=1372
500&pl=45&dur=500.545&mime=audio%2Fwebm&ms=au&source=youtube&mv=m&ipbits=0&mm=31
&mn=sn-a8au-q0ne&itag=171&signature=74F49858EC4329C6C659B9F66708E115D7A2B0A5.0CA
6573274204D7D41B3FABDBB3A5714B3684B88&ratebypass=yes

The software I used to do all this is here:
http://files.videohelp.com/u/61125/youtube-dl.zip
Note: This ffmpeg command also works to combine audio and video, but it transcodes and takes a lot of time:
(I found it on the internet, and I don't really understand the parts of the code.)

ffmpeg -i play.mp4 -i play.mp3 -c:v copy -c:a aac -strict experimental output.mp4

[pooksahib]

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. jimdagys, you deserve something really big and expensive from Santa's sack...

I had already tried using youtube-dl but gave up on it when I saw the error message you described. I didn't know you could amend the request by inserting proxy details. I've tested it on another video and it works perfectly. There didn't seem to be an option that had the best video and audio so I chose separate audio (webm) and video (mp4) and muxed them afterwards with mkvtoolnix – no need to use a webm/mp3 converter.

As the first method you gave me works just fine, I won't be using the second but, just out of curiosity, what is the 'g' command actually meant to do?

That you went to the trouble of uploading videos for me tells me what a great guy you are. All the best to you and many, many thanks.

[Anonymous]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/download-youtube/