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Version: 17.5.0 - ERROR: Signature extraction failed #14525

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bosurus opened this issue Oct 17, 2017 · 1 comment
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Version: 17.5.0 - ERROR: Signature extraction failed #14525

bosurus opened this issue Oct 17, 2017 · 1 comment

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@bosurus
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@bosurus bosurus commented Oct 17, 2017

I like this tool; just installed it from this repository, using Ubuntu Studio 17.10 ( previously purged ubuntu version of this tool); but I found some downloads with errors.
I hope the following information is useful for improvements.

youtube-dl --verbose http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FP5kyPiyKE
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FP5kyPiyKE']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.03.26
[debug] Python version 3.5.3 - Linux-4.10.0-37-lowlatency-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-17.04-zesty
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.2.4-1build2, ffprobe 3.2.4-1build2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] 0FP5kyPiyKE: Downloading webpage
[youtube] 0FP5kyPiyKE: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 0FP5kyPiyKE: Extracting video information
WARNING: unable to extract uploader nickname
WARNING: unable to extract html5 player; 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.
[youtube] {22} signature length 40.40, html5 player None
ERROR: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1081, in _decrypt_signature
video_id, player_url, s
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 969, in _extract_signature_function
raise ExtractorError('Cannot identify player %r' % player_url)
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Cannot identify player 'https://www.youtube.com/yts/jsbin/player-vflD3dhYB/en_US/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.
(caused by ExtractorError("Cannot identify player 'https://www.youtube.com/yts/jsbin/player-vflD3dhYB/en_US/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.",)); 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.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1081, in _decrypt_signature
video_id, player_url, s
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 969, in _extract_signature_function
raise ExtractorError('Cannot identify player %r' % player_url)
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Cannot identify player 'https://www.youtube.com/yts/jsbin/player-vflD3dhYB/en_US/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.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1081, in _decrypt_signature
video_id, player_url, s
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 969, in _extract_signature_function
raise ExtractorError('Cannot identify player %r' % player_url)
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Cannot identify player 'https://www.youtube.com/yts/jsbin/player-vflD3dhYB/en_US/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.

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 761, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 428, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1670, in _real_extract
encrypted_sig, video_id, player_url, age_gate)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1091, in _decrypt_signature
'Signature extraction failed: ' + tb, cause=e)
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1081, in _decrypt_signature
video_id, player_url, s
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 969, in _extract_signature_function
raise ExtractorError('Cannot identify player %r' % player_url)
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Cannot identify player 'https://www.youtube.com/yts/jsbin/player-vflD3dhYB/en_US/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.
(caused by ExtractorError("Cannot identify player 'https://www.youtube.com/yts/jsbin/player-vflD3dhYB/en_US/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.",)); 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.

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@dstftw dstftw commented Oct 18, 2017

You are using an outdated version of youtube-dl. Read this FAQ entry if you have troubles updating.

@dstftw dstftw closed this Oct 18, 2017
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