Unable to extract title - Pornhub

[richkym]

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[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: [u'-o', u'/home/YTDL/%(playlist)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-f', u'bestvideo[height<=480]+bestaudio/best[height<=480]', u'-gvi', u'--playlist-start', u'6', u'--playlist-end', u'10', u'https://www.pornhub.net/playlist/3971481']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out None, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.01.17
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 (CPython) - Linux-4.4.0-141-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-16.04-xenial
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.15, ffprobe 2.8.15, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
ERROR: Unable to extract title; 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.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 793, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 508, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/pornhub.py", line 171, in _real_extract
    webpage, 'title', group='title')
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 983, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract title; 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.
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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Is there a way to skip the title extraction if it cannot be extracted ?

[richkym]

Is there a way to skip the title extraction if it cannot be extracted? @dstftw

[arisboch]

The issue still persists, though, I encountered it, too.

[ghost]

Issue should not be closed as the bug has not been fixed it's still happening in version 2019-01-17

$ youtube-dl -v --write-sub --ignore-errors --playlist-reverse -o "%(uploader)s - %(upload_date)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" -f mp4 https://www.pornhub.com/playlist/76292411
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'--write-sub', u'--ignore-errors', u'--playlist-reverse', u'-o', u'%(uploader)s - %(upload_date)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s', u'-f', u'mp4', u'https://www.pornhub.com/playlist/76292411']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.01.17
[debug] Python version 2.7.15+ (CPython) - Linux-4.18.0-13-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-18.10-cosmic
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.0.2-2, ffprobe 4.0.2-2
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[PornHubPlaylist] 76292411: Downloading webpage
WARNING: unable to extract title; 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.
[download] Downloading playlist: 76292411
[PornHubPlaylist] playlist 76292411: Collected 0 video ids (downloading 0 of them)
[download] Finished downloading playlist: 76292411