ERROR: no conn, hlsvp, hlsManifestUrl or url_encoded_fmt_stream_map information found in video info

[dbabbitt]

Checklist

• [x ] I'm reporting a broken site support
• [x ] I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2020.01.01
• [x ] I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• [x ] I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• [x ] I've searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

Code to reproduce error

import youtube_dl
import os

downloads_folder = r'C:\Users\577342\Downloads'
youtube_url_list = ['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2hRUXuEhgI']

ydl_opts = {
    'format': 'bestaudio/best',
    'nocheckcertificate': False,
    'outtmpl': os.path.join(downloads_folder, youtube_dl.DEFAULT_OUTTMPL),
    'postprocessors': [{'key': 'FFmpegExtractAudio',
                       'preferredcodec': 'mp3',
                       'preferredquality': '192'}],
    'verbose': True,
    }
with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
    for url in youtube_url_list:
        try:
            # It also downloads the videos
            res = ydl.extract_info(url,
                                   force_generic_extractor=ydl.params.get('force_generic_extractor',
                                                                          False))
        except Exception as e:
            print()
            print('####################################################')
            print(e)
            print('####################################################')
            print()

    print(ydl._download_retcode)
print('Conversion completed.')

Verbose output

[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.08.13
[debug] Python version 3.6.8 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.18362-SP0
[debug] exe versions: avconv v13_dev0-1440-g34c1133, avprobe v13_dev0-1440-g34c1133, ffmpeg git-2020-01-08-5bd0010, ffprobe git-2020-01-08-5bd0010, phantomjs 2.1.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] E2hRUXuEhgI: Downloading webpage
[youtube] E2hRUXuEhgI: Downloading video info webpage
ERROR: no conn, hlsvp, hlsManifestUrl or url_encoded_fmt_stream_map information found in video info; 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 "C:\Users\dev\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 796, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "C:\Users\dev\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 530, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
File "C:\Users\dev\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 2109, in _real_extract
if codecs:
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: no conn, hlsvp, hlsManifestUrl or url_encoded_fmt_stream_map information found in video info; 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.

####################################################
ERROR: no conn, hlsvp, hlsManifestUrl or url_encoded_fmt_stream_map information found in video info; 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.
####################################################

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Description

I normally run this code on a list of simple YouTube URLs which I extract from the Notifications list. They work just fine from the browser.

[dbabbitt]

This is not an outdated version. When I run youtube-dl --version I get 2020.01.01.

[dstftw]

From your log:

[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.08.13