extract_info() function's view_count always returns null/NA value

[Carnivalio]

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As the title says, the view_count key from the extract_info (or from download) always return null/NA starting from yesterday, maybe youtube changed something?

Note: the download will run normally, but the view_count will just return null/NA

[KristinHenry]

I'm not sure why this is closed. I'm still having this issue, and I haven't found the 'duplicate'. Could a link to the issue this duplicates be posted?

thanks!

[panoslin]

I also encounter this issue when using it embedding. However, command-line work just fine.