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After uninstalling and installing latest using pip install youttube-dl, I get the following error when trying to download this playlist.
youtube-dl --verbose -x --audio-format "mp3" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJnbnbhWP5iG8lK-6p3Y6rlqxoS4XhUC_
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', '-x', '--audio-format', 'mp3', 'https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJnbnbhWP5iG8lK-6p3Y6rlqxoS4XhUC_']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.06.12
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-10-10.0.17134
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-93129-g9e1e521393, ffprobe N-93129-g9e1e521393
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube:playlist] PLJnbnbhWP5iG8lK-6p3Y6rlqxoS4XhUC_: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: DL
[youtube:playlist] playlist DL: Downloading 27 videos
[download] Downloading video 1 of 27
[youtube] JDUjeR01wnU: Downloading webpage
[youtube] JDUjeR01wnU: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] JDUjeR01wnU: Extracting video information
WARNING: unable to extract uploader nickname
WARNING: unable to extract html5 player; 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 --verb
ose flag and include its complete output.
[youtube] {18} signature length 107, html5 player None
[youtube] JDUjeR01wnU: Downloading player https://www.youtube.com/yts/jsbin/player_ias-vflRtzyEV/en_US/base.js
ERROR: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpkyaecyzu\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 1162, in _decrypt_signature
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpkyaecyzu\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 1073, in _extract_signature_function
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpkyaecyzu\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 1134, in _parse_sig_js
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpkyaecyzu\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 782, in _search_regex
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; type youtube-dl
-U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
(caused by 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 t
o 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.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpkyaecyzu\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 1162, in _decrypt_signature
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpkyaecyzu\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 1073, in _extract_signature_function
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpkyaecyzu\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 1134, in _parse_sig_js
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpkyaecyzu\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 782, in _search_regex
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; 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 "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpkyaecyzu\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 1162, in _decrypt_signature
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpkyaecyzu\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 1073, in _extract_signature_function
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpkyaecyzu\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 1134, in _parse_sig_js
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpkyaecyzu\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 782, in _search_regex
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; type youtube-dl
-U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpkyaecyzu\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 762, in extract_info
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpkyaecyzu\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 433, in extract
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpkyaecyzu\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 1774, in _real_extract
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpkyaecyzu\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 1172, in _decrypt_signature
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpkyaecyzu\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 1162, in _decrypt_signature
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpkyaecyzu\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 1073, in _extract_signature_function
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpkyaecyzu\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 1134, in _parse_sig_js
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpkyaecyzu\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 782, in _search_regex
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; type youtube-dl
-U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
(caused by 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 t
o 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.