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I have Windows 10 64 bit OS with 40 GB memory
Yesterday the library was OK and today
Error:ERROR: qMo8krAJd5Q: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data
DownloadError('ERROR: qMo8krAJd5Q: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data')
------------------------------------------------------------ c:\temp\short\10
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 796, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 530, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 1835, in _real_extract
raise ExtractorError(
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: qMo8krAJd5Q: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Mydev\python3\fileSupport\video\VideoSup\get_youtube.py", line 320, in loadUrlsFromSetting
result = downloadYoutube(output_dir, (ln))
File "C:\Mydev\python3\fileSupport\video\VideoSup\get_youtube.py", line 159, in downloadYoutube
result = ydl.extract_info(url, download=False) # We just want to extract the info
File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 819, in extract_info
self.report_error(compat_str(e), e.format_traceback())
File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 624, in report_error
self.trouble(error_message, tb)
File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 594, in trouble
raise DownloadError(message, exc_info)
youtube_dl.utils.DownloadError: ERROR: qMo8krAJd5Q: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data
Is that related to system or new youtube API
I checked on different computers with the same result