You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.You signed out in another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.You switched accounts on another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.Dismiss alert
Provide a description that is worded well enough to be understood
Getting Unable to extract uploader id error when trying to download youtube video.
I tried in linux (linux mint 21.1) and macos (ventura) but same result.
Provide verbose output that clearly demonstrates the problem
Run your yt-dlp command with -vU flag added (yt-dlp -vU <your command line>)
Copy the WHOLE output (starting with [debug] Command-line config) and insert it below
Complete Verbose Output
[debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egITMrwMOPU']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, pref UTF-8, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
[debug] yt-dlp version 2023.01.06 [6becd25] (pip)
[debug] Python 3.11.2 (CPython arm64 64bit) - macOS-13.1-arm64-arm-64bit (OpenSSL 1.1.1t 7 Feb 2023)
[debug] exe versions: rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.16.0, brotli-1.0.9, certifi-2022.12.07, mutagen-1.46.0, sqlite3-2.6.0, websockets-10.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Loaded 1760 extractors
[debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest
Latest version: 2023.01.06, Current version: 2023.01.06
yt-dlp is up to date (2023.01.06)
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egITMrwMOPU
[youtube] egITMrwMOPU: Downloading webpage
[youtube] egITMrwMOPU: Downloading android player API JSON
ERROR: [youtube] egITMrwMOPU: Unable to extract uploader id; please report this issue on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using yt-dlp -U
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/yt-dlp/2023.1.6/libexec/lib/python3.11/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 680, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/yt-dlp/2023.1.6/libexec/lib/python3.11/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py", line 4049, in _real_extract
'uploader_id': self._search_regex(r'/(?:channel|user)/([^/?&#]+)', owner_profile_url, 'uploader id') if owner_profile_url else None,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/yt-dlp/2023.1.6/libexec/lib/python3.11/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 1228, in _search_regex
raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:
DO NOT REMOVE OR SKIP THE ISSUE TEMPLATE
Checklist
Provide a description that is worded well enough to be understood
Getting Unable to extract uploader id error when trying to download youtube video.
I tried in linux (linux mint 21.1) and macos (ventura) but same result.
Provide verbose output that clearly demonstrates the problem
yt-dlp -vU <your command line>
)[debug] Command-line config
) and insert it belowComplete Verbose Output
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: