ERROR: Signature extraction failed

[onlinepara]

Problem fixed. It was about hosting issue.

[ramp856]

I am also getting the same error with version: 2018.09.26, it used to work before few days.

[TheJayWright]

I just began getting the error yesterday.

┌─[jwright@enigma] - [~] - [Thu Nov 08, 14:13]
└─[$]> youtube-dl --version
2018.11.07

ERROR: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/Cellar/mps-youtube/0.2.8_4/libexec/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1212, in _decrypt_signature
video_id, player_url, s
File "/usr/local/Cellar/mps-youtube/0.2.8_4/libexec/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1121, in _extract_signature_function
res = self._parse_sig_js(code)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/mps-youtube/0.2.8_4/libexec/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1184, in _parse_sig_js
jscode, 'Initial JS player signature function name', group='sig')
File "/usr/local/Cellar/mps-youtube/0.2.8_4/libexec/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 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 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 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.

MacOS 10.14.1 Mojave

[ramp856]

Download the latest version. It fiixed my issue. Hopefully that might fix your errors too. If it’s not working try re-downloading YouTube-dl again.

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