[Openload] Unable to extract stream URL

[Rudloff]

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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

Add the -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with (youtube-dl -v <your command line>), copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://openload.co/f/kUEfGclsU9o']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out None, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.04.09
[debug] Git HEAD: 0d26920
[debug] Python version 2.7.13 (CPython) - Linux-4.9.0-6-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-9.4
[debug] exe versions: avconv 3.2.10-1, avprobe 3.2.10-1, ffmpeg 3.4.1-static, ffprobe 3.2.10-1, phantomjs 2.1.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Openload] kUEfGclsU9o: Downloading embed webpage
[Openload] kUEfGclsU9o: Executing JS on webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract stream URL; 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 "/home/pierre/www/alltube/vendor/rg3/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 789, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/home/pierre/www/alltube/vendor/rg3/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 440, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/home/pierre/www/alltube/vendor/rg3/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/openload.py", line 344, in _real_extract
    'stream URL'))
  File "/home/pierre/www/alltube/vendor/rg3/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 808, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract stream URL; 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.

[dstftw]

No such commit 0d26920.

[Rudloff]

I was running youtube-dl inside another Git project folder so it picked the commit from this other project. I'm running the 2018.04.09 release from its zip file.

[dstftw]

Most likely you haven't picked all relevant commits.

[Rudloff]

I can also reproduce on the latest master:

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://openload.co/f/kUEfGclsU9o']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.04.09
[debug] Git HEAD: f7f9757ef
[debug] Python version 2.7.13 (CPython) - Linux-4.9.0-6-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-9.4
[debug] exe versions: avconv 3.2.10-1, avprobe 3.2.10-1, ffmpeg 3.2.10-1, ffprobe 3.2.10-1, phantomjs 2.1.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Openload] kUEfGclsU9o: Downloading embed webpage
[Openload] kUEfGclsU9o: Executing JS on webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract stream URL; 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 "/home/pierre/www/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 789, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/home/pierre/www/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 440, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/home/pierre/www/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/openload.py", line 344, in _real_extract
    'stream URL'))
  File "/home/pierre/www/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 808, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract stream URL; 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.

[ozcs]

who marked this issue invalid ?

[ozcs]

just an update that I fixed my problem, it was sever side, phantomJs issue, more info on issue #16205