upload_date kicking out "(NA)" ... script saying it's an issue with uploader_id ... playlists no longer work either.

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So the issue;

The script worked fine until a few days ago, now it will return an (NA) rather than the upload_date, even though it says it's an error with the uploader_id argument.

So the example below (it's a random vid! Don't judge me!) will now be named;
[Looper] (NA) Disney Movie Sequels You Never Knew Existed.mp4

When previously it would have been;
[Looper] [16082017] Disney Movie Sequels You Never Knew Existed.mp4

Any ideas why suddenly the upload_date argument is suddenly causing me issues?

D:\yt\Script>D:\yt\Script\youtube-dl -f 22 -a list.txt --mark-watched --youtube-skip-dash-manifest --console-title --retries 10 --cookies cookies.txt -i -o "D:\yt\[%(uploader)s] (%(upload_date)s) %(title)s.%(ext)s" -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-f', '22', '-a', 'list.txt', '--mark-watched', '--youtube-skip-dash-manifest', '--console-title', '--retries', '10', '--cookies', 'cookies.txt', '-i', '-o', 'D:\\yt\\[%(uploader)s] (%(upload_date)s) %(title)s.%(ext)s', '-v']
[debug] Batch file urls: ['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFj-ak-s6CY']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.08.13
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-10-10.0.15063
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] yFj-ak-s6CY: Downloading webpage
[youtube] yFj-ak-s6CY: Extracting video information
WARNING: unable to extract uploader nickname
[youtube] yFj-ak-s6CY: Marking watched
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://r13---sn-aigllnsz.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?mm=31&requiressl=yes&ipbits=0&ms=au&signature=3684B0EEB3A1070D01F7B517A471D711549BF523.C43F78AACC86B1E592CE00FBF18DE9A1E219BC48&ratebypass=yes&source=youtube&mv=m&initcwndbps=1517500&pl=17&mn=sn-aigllnsz&dur=360.327&ei=0jmUWc72PMmNWPbZnKAJ&itag=22&sparams=dur%2Cei%2Cid%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Clmt%2Cmime%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cpl%2Cratebypass%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cexpire&lmt=1500911906513100&ip=194.72.129.42&mime=video%2Fmp4&key=yt6&expire=1502907955&id=o-AJRlvxmHnwHXltwYHL6imzEtYVs90xILOLjYDug2KtjW&mt=1502886277'
[download] Destination: D:\yt\[Looper] (NA) Disney Movie Sequels You Never Knew Existed.mp4
[download]   1.7% of 58.80MiB at 884.61KiB/s ETA 01:06
ERROR: Interrupted by user
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<end of log>

... also, the script now doesn't recognise playlists (entire channel links eg https://www.youtube.com/channel/github/videos) as having any videos. Previously it'd count the pages then grab em all.

This is true for playlists/channels I'm half way through downloading. They now don't work (without ANY change to the script).

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Post the output with --dump-pages.

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D:\yt\Script>D:\yt\Script\youtube-dl -f 22 -a list.txt --mark-watched --youtube-skip-dash-manifest --console-title --retries 10 --cookies cookies.txt -i -o "D:\yt[%(uploader)s] (%(upload_date)s) %(title)s.%(ext)s" -v --dump-pages
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-f', '22', '-a', 'list.txt', '--mark-watched', '--youtube-skip-dash-manifest', '--console-title', '--retries', '10', '--cookies', 'cookies.txt', '-i', '-o', 'D:\yt\[%(uploader)s] (%(upload_date)s) %(title)s.%(ext)s', '-v', '--dump-pages']
[debug] Batch file urls: ['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y1UDTtNx3w']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.08.13
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-10-10.0.15063
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] 7y1UDTtNx3w: Downloading webpage
[youtube] Dumping request to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y1UDTtNx3w&gl=US&hl=en&has_verified=1&bpctr=9999999999
PCFkb2N0eXBlIGh0bWw+PGh0bWwgc3R5bGU9ImZvbnQtc2l6ZTogMTBweDtmb250LWZhbWlseTogUm9ib3RvLCBBcmlhbCwgc2Fucy1zZXJpZjsgYmFja2dyb3VuZC1jb2xvcjogI2ZhZmFmYTsiPjxoZWFkPjwhLS0gT3JpZ2luIFRya.... lots and lots

[dstftw]

Post the FULL output.

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dump.txt

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I don't know if it's worth someone somewhere knowing, but the latest update has finally fixed this issue! Hooray!