Crash report: Signature extraction failed

[BlackCapCoder]

Version

> youtube-dl -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.09.01
[debug] Python version 3.7.0 (CPython) - Linux-4.18.5-arch1-1-ARCH-x86_64-with-arch
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg n4.0.2, ffprobe n4.0.2, phantomjs 18, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
Usage: youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]

youtube-dl: error: You must provide at least one URL.
Type youtube-dl --help to see a list of all options.

Reproducible example

> youtube-dl "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXdbHINEp-U"
[youtube] BXdbHINEp-U: Downloading webpage
[youtube] BXdbHINEp-U: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] BXdbHINEp-U: Downloading js player vflvABTsY
ERROR: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1210, in _decrypt_signature
    video_id, player_url, s
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1121, in _extract_signature_function
    res = self._parse_sig_js(code)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1182, in _parse_sig_js
    jscode, 'Initial JS player signature function name', group='sig')
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 972, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract Initial JS player signature function name; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make s
ure 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 co
mplete output.
 (caused by RegexNotFoundError('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; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and in
clude 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.

Description

Youtube-dl crashes for the specific url "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXdbHINEp-U"

[Decicus]

#17457