:ytfav Playlist cannot be extracted

[vfjtgw]

While trying to backup my favorites, youtube-dl failed with this output:

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-citw', '-u', '', '-p', '', ':ytfav', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale 'ISO-8859-1', fs 'ISO-8859-1', out 'ISO-8859-1', pref: 'ISO-8859-1'
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.01.17.2
[debug] Python version 2.6.5 - Linux-2.6.32-45-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-10.04-lucid
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube:favorites] Setting language
[youtube:favorites] Downloading login page
[youtube:favorites] Logging in
[youtube:favorites] Confirming age
[youtube:favorites] Youtube Favourites videos: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract favourites playlist id; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "[REDACTED]/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 493, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "[REDACTED]/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 155, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "[REDACTED]/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1753, in _real_extract
playlist_id = self._search_regex(r'list=(.+?)["&]', webpage, u'favourites playlist id')
File "[REDACTED]/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 345, in _search_regex
raise RegexNotFoundError(u'Unable to extract %s' % _name)
RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract favourites playlist id; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update.

[REDACTED] is everything above the folder containing youtube-dl. I successfully used youtube-dl to back up the channels of other users, and this is the only issue.

[jaimeMF]

That's weird: I got the error, I logged into youtube.com in a browser to see if something had changed and the I could use youtube-dl to download the favourites. I'll try to reproduce it again.

[vfjtgw]

I should have mentioned that I was doing this through a VPS. I used Midori to log in to the account on the VPS, and now it is working without a problem.

[jaimeMF]

I guess that can be closed then, If anyone can reproduce it, we will reopen the issue.