WARNING: unable to extract uploader nickname

[deiucanta]

I'm trying to get the URL using "-g" option on youtube-dl. The php exec function should return the last line of the output but it returns the warning line. Why is that?

[phihag]

Can you post the entire output you get when adding -v? In particular, this is impossible to diagnose without knowing youtube-dl's version number and the URL you're requesting.

[deiucanta]

I can't reproduce the error, it's just something that I've found in my logs, but I'll try.

[nickv2002]

I've got the same error from a metacafe page. It's repeatable, but it still downloads the video:

$ youtube-dl -v http://www.metacafe.com/watch/10893635/wrong_floor_prologue/
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'http://www.metacafe.com/watch/10893635/wrong_floor_prologue/']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.08.30
[debug] Python version 2.7.3 - Linux-3.5.0-26-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-12.10-quantal
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[metacafe] Retrieving disclaimer
[metacafe] Confirming age
[metacafe] 10893635: Downloading webpage
[metacafe] 10893635: Extracting information
WARNING: unable to extract uploader nickname; please report this issue on http://yt-dl.org/bug

[jaimeMF]

@nickv2002 Thanks for reporting, it's fixed in 6c758d7, other time feel free to open a new issue if the site with the problem is different, usually they are unrelated.