[Bug] TypeError: str() takes at most 1 argument (2 given)

[awei78]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support issue
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dlc version 2020.10.31
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• I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
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Verbose log

Connected to pydev debugger (build 192.7142.56)
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--proxy', u'http://127.0.0.1:1080/', u'-v', u'-i', u'-j', u'--flat-playlist', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWb_X3ZJQjw&list=PLBHgMN3r4ZNwObXsF5soCCCh0bvBNpgN2']
[debug] Loading archive file None
[debug] Encodings: locale cp936, fs mbcs, out UTF-8, pref cp936
[debug] youtube-dlc version 2020.11.11-1
[debug] Python version 2.7.18 (CPython) - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {u'http': u'http://127.0.0.1:1080/', u'https': u'http://127.0.0.1:1080/'}
ERROR: str() takes at most 1 argument (2 given)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "E:\GitHub\CRTubeGet\trunk\packages\youtube-dlc\youtube_dlc\YoutubeDL.py", line 846, in extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "E:\GitHub\CRTubeGet\trunk\packages\youtube-dlc\youtube_dlc\YoutubeDL.py", line 1007, in process_ie_result
    ie_entries, playliststart, playlistend))
  File "E:\GitHub\CRTubeGet\trunk\packages\youtube-dlc\youtube_dlc\extractor\youtube.py", line 377, in _entries
    }), encoding='utf-8'),
TypeError: str() takes at most 1 argument (2 given)

Description

In Python 2.7 environment, this code broken:
youtube.py, line 374

                        data=bytes(json.dumps({
                            'context': try_get(yt_conf, lambda x: x['INNERTUBE_CONTEXT']),
                            'continuation': continuation_token
                        }), encoding='utf-8'),

TypeError: str() takes at most 1 argument (2 given).
The str function in python 2.7 only take 1 argument.
Can be modified to:

                        data = str(json.dumps({
                            'context': try_get(yt_conf, lambda x: x['INNERTUBE_CONTEXT']),
                            'continuation': continuation_token
                        })).encode(encoding='UTF-8',errors='strict'),

[xeon927]

I was having this issue too, I solved it by uninstalling and reinstalling using python3 (assuming that it was using python2.7 when it installed before, looks like you're also running 2.7 based on your debug info you posted).

Based on file paths, I'm guessing you're running Windows, so not entirely sure as to making sure that it's installed with python3, but for reference, Ubuntu/Debian instructions are as follows -

Uninstall:

python -m pip uninstall youtube-dlc

Reinstall:

sudo apt install python3-pip
python3 -m pip install git+https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc

Running:

python3 /home/xeon927/.local/youtube-dlc "insert-playlist-url-here"

It's working great for me after this :)