ERROR: Signature extraction failed (AGAIN)

[RazoRIX]

Recently (today) the Signature Extraction failed issue made a comeback... here's the error log when trying a Youtube video.

**_[0] => ERROR: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last):
[1] =>   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1057, in _decrypt_signature
[2] =>     video_id, player_url, s
[3] =>   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 971, in _extract_signature_function
[4] =>     errnote='Download of %s failed' % player_url)
[5] =>   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 529, in _download_webpage
[6] =>     res = self._download_webpage_handle(url_or_request, video_id, note, errnote, fatal, encoding=encoding, data=data, headers=headers, query=query)
[7] =>   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 436, in _download_webpage_handle
[8] =>     urlh = self._request_webpage(url_or_request, video_id, note, errnote, fatal, data=data, headers=headers, query=query)
[9] =>   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 416, in _request_webpage
[10] =>     return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
[11] =>   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2000, in urlopen
[12] =>     req = sanitized_Request(req)
[13] =>   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 525, in sanitized_Request
[14] =>     return compat_urllib_request.Request(sanitize_url(url), *args, **kwargs)
[15] =>   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 268, in __init__
[16] =>     self.full_url = url
[17] =>   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 294, in full_url
[18] =>     self._parse()
[19] =>   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 323, in _parse
[20] =>     raise ValueError("unknown url type: %r" % self.full_url)
[21] => ValueError: unknown url type: '/yts/jsbin/player-en_US-vflV3n15C/base.js'
[22] =>  (caused by ValueError("unknown url type: '/yts/jsbin/player-en_US-vflV3n15C/base.js'",)); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output._**

[jaydenkieran]

Duplicate of #11890

[ThomasChr]

Why on earth does NO ONE check the issues right before???
I'm actually counting about 15 Issues for the same problem!!!

[rofl0r]

maybe you should fix it then, @ThomasChr ?

[jaydenkieran]

@rofl0r It's fixed in this PR #11892

[ThomasChr]

Maybe a first fix has already been provided 10 issues ago?