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Facebook video and special characters

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Checklist

I’m reporting a bug unrelated to a specific site
I’ve verified that I’m running yt-dlp version 2022.04.08 (update instructions) or later (specify commit)
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 issues including closed ones. DO NOT post duplicates
I’ve read the guidelines for opening an issue

Description

ERROR: unable to open for writing: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: 'C:\\youtube-dl\\facebook\\�.. _ Trường hợp này phải các cụ khi bật dạy có cho thanh niên kia một trận không , chơi kiểu này khác nào g.i.ê.t người �...-NA-NA-3214644252147296.f1023329444972024a.m4a.part'

i can still download with yt-dlp [link] [-o I:\1.mp4]

Verbose log

ERROR: unable to open for writing: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: 'I:\\youtube-dl\\facebook\\�... _ Tr&#x1b0;&#x1edd;ng h&#x1ee3;p n&#xe0;y ph&#x1ea3;i c&#xe1;c c&#x1ee5; khi b&#x1ead;t d&#x1ea1;y c&#xf3; cho thanh ni&#xea;n kia m&#x1ed9;t tr&#x1ead;n kh&#xf4;ng , ch&#x1a1;i ki&#x1ec3;u n&#xe0;y kh&#xe1;c n&#xe0;o g.i.&#xea;.t ng&#x1b0;&#x1edd;i &#xfffd;...-NA-NA-3214644252147296.f1023329444972024a.m4a.part'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\GEN32UC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\utils.py", line 690, in sanitize_open
    raise LockingUnsupportedError()
yt_dlp.utils.LockingUnsupportedError: File locking is not supported on this platform

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\GEN32UC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\downloader\http.py", line 263, in download
    ctx.stream, ctx.tmpfilename = self.sanitize_open(
  File "C:\Users\GEN32UC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\downloader\common.py", line 221, in inner
    return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\GEN32UC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\downloader\common.py", line 238, in sanitize_open
    f, filename = sanitize_open(filename, open_mode)
  File "C:\Users\GEN32UC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\utils.py", line 693, in sanitize_open
    stream = open(filename, open_mode)
OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: 'I:\\youtube-dl\\facebook\\�... _ Tr&#x1b0;&#x1edd;ng h&#x1ee3;p n&#xe0;y ph&#x1ea3;i c&#xe1;c c&#x1ee5; khi b&#x1ead;t d&#x1ea1;y c&#xf3; cho thanh ni&#xea;n kia m&#x1ed9;t tr&#x1ead;n kh&#xf4;ng , ch&#x1a1;i ki&#x1ec3;u n&#xe0;y kh&#xe1;c n&#xe0;o g.i.&#xea;.t ng&#x1b0;&#x1edd;i &#xfffd;...-NA-NA-3214644252147296.f1023329444972024a.m4a.part'

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dirkfcommented, Apr 17, 2022

Isn’t this what --windows-filenames is for? Or --restrict-filenames if OP were actually using yt-dl as the directory name suggests.

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pukkandancommented, Apr 30, 2022

limiting the length of the overlong field, as in %(title).50s

Note that the actual limit is in bytes. If the title has unicode characters, .Ns may contain upto 2N bytes. To account for this, yt-dlp supports the syntax %(title).200B instead to trim to 200 bytes. This is recommended when trimming to limit path length

and trim do not seem to fix this

While the output template method is recommended, trim_file_name should also do the job. If it does not work, provide verbose log (preferably in a new issue)