WARNING: Unable to extract video title

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I got the following error using youtube-dl while using my script.sh. The script and the batchfile are under the error message. Simply loading single videos out of the playlists worked with >youtube-dl "url"<

Error occured as following:

Input:

bash script.sh

Output:

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', '--username', 'PRIVATE', '--password', 'PRIVATE', '-c', '-o', '/media/felix/Media HDD 2TB/Medien/YTTV/%(playlist)s/%(season_number)s/%(playlist_index)s_%(title)s/%(playlist_index)s_%(title)s.%(ext)s', '--dateafter', 'now-7days', '--playlist-end', '5', '--write-info-json', '--write-thumbnail', '--embed-thumbnail', '--add-metadata', '--download-archive', 'archive.txt', '--batch-file=/media/felix/Media HDD 2TB/Medien/script/batches/listYTTV.txt']
[debug] Batch file urls: ['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_2Q-FHOkMI&list=PLsksxTH4pR3IPAMtiymcNFlhCcKFnxAd6', 'https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4lYw72TgciX2AYKNbaQS7edGxhuGtDun', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmMGCA14EF4&list=PL6zWSjo1hdVX5cXRkGa9nB8yfQyfhBuKC']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.03.14
[debug] Python version 3.6.7 (CPython) - Linux-4.18.0-16-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-18.04-bionic
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, ffprobe 3.4.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, phantomjs 2.1.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube:playlist] Downloading login page
[youtube:playlist] Looking up account info
[youtube:playlist] Logging in
[youtube:playlist] Checking cookie
[youtube:playlist] Downloading playlist PLsksxTH4pR3IPAMtiymcNFlhCcKFnxAd6 - add --no-playlist to just download video 9_2Q-FHOkMI
[youtube:playlist] PLsksxTH4pR3IPAMtiymcNFlhCcKFnxAd6: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: Kino+ - Filmstarts, Trailer & News aus der Kinowelt
[youtube:playlist] playlist Kino+ - Filmstarts, Trailer & News aus der Kinowelt: Downloading 5 videos
[download] Downloading video 1 of 5
[download] Kino+ #244 | Triple Frontier, Avengers: Endgame, Trautmann, Asterix & das Geheimnis des Zaubertranks has already been recorded in archive
[download] Downloading video 2 of 5
[youtube] Downloading login page
[youtube] Looking up account info
[youtube] Logging in
[youtube] Checking cookie
[youtube] gQOMhnodu_I: Downloading webpage
[youtube] gQOMhnodu_I: Downloading video info webpage
WARNING: Unable to extract video title
[youtube] gQOMhnodu_I: Extracting video information
ERROR: Unable to extract uploader 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.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 785, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 440, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1701, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError('Unable to extract uploader name')
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Unable to extract uploader 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.

script.sh (deleted the option for username and password here but got the error with and without these options):

#!/bin/sh
youtube-dl --verbose -c -o "/media/felix/Media HDD 2TB/Medien/YTTV/%(playlist)s/%(season_number)s/%(playlist_index)s_%(title)s/%(playlist_index)s_%(title)s.%(ext)s" --dateafter now-7days --playlist-end 5 --write-info-json --write-thumbnail --embed-thumbnail --add-metadata --download-archive archive.txt --batch-file='/media/felix/Media HDD 2TB/Medien/script/batches/listYTTV.txt'

listYTTV.txt with links to playlists on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_2Q-FHOkMI&list=PLsksxTH4pR3IPAMtiymcNFlhCcKFnxAd6
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4lYw72TgciX2AYKNbaQS7edGxhuGtDun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmMGCA14EF4&list=PL6zWSjo1hdVX5cXRkGa9nB8yfQyfhBuKC

Thanks!