[Broken] ERROR: local variable 'ytplayer_config' referenced before assignment

[jbruchon]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dlc version 2021.01.07-1
• 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

Verbose log

Y:\YouTube Channels\Misc>youtube-dl --match-filter "!is_live & !live" --cookies "Y:\cookies.txt" --add-metadata --write-description --write-info-json --write-thumbnail --download-archive "Y:\ytdl_archive.txt" --all-subs -ciw -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" -v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WTBkj8gFfI
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--match-filter', '!is_live & !live', '--cookies', 'Y:\\cookies.txt', '--add-metadata', '--write-description', '--write-info-json', '--write-thumbnail', '--download-archive', 'Y:\\ytdl_archive.txt', '--all-subs', '-ciw', '-o', '%(title)s.%(ext)s', '-v', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WTBkj8gFfI']
[debug] Loading archive file 'Y:\\ytdl_archive.txt'
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dlc version 2021.01.07
[debug] Python version 3.9.0 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.19041-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: {}
[youtube] _WTBkj8gFfI: Downloading webpage
[youtube] _WTBkj8gFfI: Downloading embed webpage
[youtube] _WTBkj8gFfI: Refetching age-gated info webpage
[youtube] {18} signature length 104, html5 player 9f996d3e
[youtube] {22} signature length 108, html5 player 9f996d3e
[youtube] {137} signature length 108, html5 player 9f996d3e
[youtube] {248} signature length 104, html5 player 9f996d3e
[youtube] {136} signature length 108, html5 player 9f996d3e
[youtube] {247} signature length 108, html5 player 9f996d3e
[youtube] {135} signature length 104, html5 player 9f996d3e
[youtube] {244} signature length 108, html5 player 9f996d3e
[youtube] {134} signature length 108, html5 player 9f996d3e
[youtube] {243} signature length 104, html5 player 9f996d3e
[youtube] {133} signature length 108, html5 player 9f996d3e
[youtube] {242} signature length 104, html5 player 9f996d3e
[youtube] {160} signature length 108, html5 player 9f996d3e
[youtube] {278} signature length 108, html5 player 9f996d3e
[youtube] {140} signature length 108, html5 player 9f996d3e
[youtube] {249} signature length 108, html5 player 9f996d3e
[youtube] {250} signature length 108, html5 player 9f996d3e
[youtube] {251} signature length 108, html5 player 9f996d3e
ERROR: local variable 'ytplayer_config' referenced before assignment
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "youtube_dlc\YoutubeDL.py", line 866, in wrapper
  File "youtube_dlc\YoutubeDL.py", line 887, in __extract_info
  File "youtube_dlc\extractor\common.py", line 533, in extract
  File "youtube_dlc\extractor\youtube.py", line 2375, in _real_extract
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'ytplayer_config' referenced before assignment

Description

This code path allows execution to continue without setting ytplayer_config: https://github.com/pukkandan/yt-dlc/blob/master/youtube_dlc/extractor/youtube.py#L1746-L1766

[pukkandan]

The issue was introduced by 29f7c58. I have pushed a patch to fix it

[jbruchon]

Thanks, that's what I was about to commit before I got distracted by "real work" 👍 😄