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ERROR: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last): #11818
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Post the full output of youtube-dl when run with Do not post screenshots of verbose log only plain text is acceptable. The output (including the first lines) contains important debugging information. Issues without the full output are often not reproducible and therefore do not get solved in short order, if ever. |
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For any further investigations you have to provide credentials of account rented this video or another freely available example URL that reproduces this issue. |
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Sorry, being that it's my primary Gmail account I don't feel comfortable providing that info. Hopefully you all can figure it out another way. Thanks anyways for your time. |
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Figured I'd submit this here instead of making my own issue, here's a replicatable URL I get this consistently on that is freely accessible: And version output: Through testing I seem to get this with any playlist I test, and normal videos every now and then. When 's' is found in the url data that is passed, such as with the URL I gave, here's the url_data returned From what I can tell, the url is just missing I edited this to test it, and it looks like simply adding that worked, however now there's an error with parsing the signature: I checked this out as well, and based on the same example I was using above, the url it's supposed to be parsing is this one: https://www.youtube.com/yts/jsbin/player-en_US-vflV3n15C/base.js And the regex it's looking for is indeed not there. This is where I stopped investigating, because I could not for the life of me figure out where the signature is inside of here. |
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The error reported here happens in my workstation. Video URL is |
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Same problem here. $ youtube-dl --version $ youtube-dl --verbose -f bestvideo+bestaudio https://youtu.be/2EQduTQz6Yk During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): |
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@OlliC You are using an outdated version of youtube-dl. Read this FAQ entry if you have troubles updating. |
Got this error on a rented youtube video. I am using the windows EXE that I just downloaded today.