Unable to download videos from youtube channels / playlist & failed to achieve video's date.

[yennyng]

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C:\Users\user\Desktop\youtube-dl>youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/user/▧▧▧/videos
[youtube:user] ▧▧▧: Downloading channel page
[youtube:user] ▧▧▧: Downloading page #1
[download] Downloading playlist: ▧▧▧
[youtube:user] playlist ▧▧▧: Downloading 0 videos
[download] Finished downloading playlist: ▧▧▧

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<1> Unable to download videos from youtube channels / playlist.
Before youtube made their layout changes about a few hour ago things was working fine, I was able to download all the videos directly from youtube channel (exp: https://www.youtube.com/user/xiaozhuangw/videos) or playlist (exp: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxO0m5nXjWH5xHkaWd04_tMGlaQsvsqBB).

I realize that the loading will stop after this line "[youtube:user] ▧▧▧: Downloading page #1" when normally it could move on to more page number (Downloading page #2, #3 etc) and therefore ended with 0 videos.

• My previous downloads from a channel with thousand video is still running at the moment (only that dates became "NA"), so I believe somewhere between channel page access was changed from the Youtube.

• When testing to download just only single video things still works wonders.
  (exp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alTRKo8-jeM)

<2> Failed to achieve video date [-o %(upload_date)s]
-o %(upload_date)s end with the results "NA" rather than "YYYYMMDD".

Thank you so much for your time in advance!

[vxbinaca]

The problem is, youtube is serving a null date. I found this by looking at a ripped videos info.json file.

"upload_date": null

It's reproducible on pretty much any video right now and may be related to the layout change.