ERROR: unable to download video data: [Errno 13] Permission denied:

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I’m reporting a broken site support issue
I’ve verified that I’m running yt-dlp version 2021.07.07
I’ve checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
I’ve checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
I’ve searched the bugtracker for similar bug reports including closed ones
I’ve read bugs section in FAQ

Verbose log

[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref cp1252
[debug] yt-dlp version 2021.07.07 (exe)
[debug] Python version 3.9.6 (CPython 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.19043-SP0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.3.1-2020-11-19-full_build-www.gyan.dev, ffprobe 4.3.1-2020-11-19-full_build-www.gyan.dev
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] [generic] Extracting URL: _Link Redacted_
[generic] master: Requesting header
WARNING: [generic] Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] master: Downloading webpage
[generic] master: Downloading m3u8 information
[debug] Formats sorted by: hasvid, ie_pref, lang, quality, res, fps, vcodec:vp9.2(10), acodec, filesize, fs_approx, tbr, vbr, abr, asr, proto, vext, aext, hasaud, source, id
[debug] Downloading subtitles: de, he, fr, es, en, ru, yi

Description

when using native downloader a lot of times it fails with error “ERROR: unable to download video data: [Errno 13] Permission denied:” but if i retry it works, how do i make it retry automatically ? i tried --retries infinite but its not retrying

(i didnt checkbox latest version 2021.07.07 because i am using version built today but also fails on latest “stable”)

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kenorbcommented, Dec 30, 2021

$ yt-dlp -vci -R5 -f mp4,webm --write-description --write-info-json --all-subs --write-thumbnail --add-metadata https://www.youtube.com/c/DecimalZ/videos
...
[youtube:tab] UCpzhzlCa-QgORPIkddepgSg page 1: Downloading API JSON
[info] Writing playlist metadata as JSON to: Decimal Z - Videos [UCpzhzlCa-QgORPIkddepgSg].info.json
ERROR: Cannot write playlist metadata to JSON file Decimal Z - Videos [UCpzhzlCa-QgORPIkddepgSg].info.json
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/snap/yt-dlp/1/lib/python3.8/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 3591, in _write_info_json
    write_json_file(self.sanitize_info(ie_result, self.params.get('clean_infojson', True)), infofn)
  File "/snap/yt-dlp/1/lib/python3.8/site-packages/yt_dlp/utils.py", line 1842, in write_json_file
    tf = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(**compat_kwargs(args))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/tempfile.py", line 679, in NamedTemporaryFile
    (fd, name) = _mkstemp_inner(dir, prefix, suffix, flags, output_type)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/tempfile.py", line 389, in _mkstemp_inner
    fd = _os.open(file, flags, 0o600)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'Decimal Z - Videos [UCpzhzlCa-QgORPIkddepgSg].info.json.y1jfkxmi.tmp'

The command fails each time, also during each regular download (without any parameters).

Maybe snap version of yt-dlp doesn’t have access to the temporary directory? Or it’s using the wrong path?

$ mount | grep dlp
/var/lib/snapd/snaps/yt-dlp_1.snap on /snap/yt-dlp/1 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide)
nsfs on /run/snapd/ns/yt-dlp.mnt type nsfs (rw)

Workaround

I’ve removed the snap version and installed manually and it works fine.

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ehoogeveen-medwebcommented, Dec 30, 2021

If it fails consistently then the retry logic from #2066 wouldn’t help - this issue is about intermittent failures in open.

Having said that, #2066 only covers uses of sanitize_open; write_json_file doesn’t have the retry logic. I think there are a few other paths that don’t have any retry logic (e.g. downloading livechat).