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Unable to fetch youtube videos #17463

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ansal10 opened this issue Sep 7, 2018 · 0 comments
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Unable to fetch youtube videos #17463

ansal10 opened this issue Sep 7, 2018 · 0 comments
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@ansal10 ansal10 commented Sep 7, 2018

I am unable to fetch or download youtube videos on my mac.
MacBook-Pro:~ ansal$ youtube-dl -U
youtube-dl is up-to-date (2018.09.01)
MacBook-Pro:~ ansal$ youtube-dl -F y7TC2Ef__zw
[youtube] y7TC2Ef__zw: Downloading webpage
[youtube] y7TC2Ef__zw: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] y7TC2Ef__zw: Downloading js player vflvABTsY
ERROR: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1210, in _decrypt_signature
video_id, player_url, s
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1121, in _extract_signature_function
res = self._parse_sig_js(code)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1182, in _parse_sig_js
jscode, 'Initial JS player signature function name', group='sig')
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 972, in _search_regex
raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract Initial JS player signature function name; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
(caused by RegexNotFoundError(u'Unable to extract \x1b[0;34mInitial JS player signature function name\x1b[0m; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U 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; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

@ansal10 ansal10 closed this Sep 7, 2018
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