Youtube-dl stopped working after update - please help

[ijbh]

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Hi, I updated to the latest version of youtube-dl and it suddenly stopped working on all sites for me. I'm using brew on Terminal. This is the error message that I get:

ERROR:root:code for hash md5 was not found.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.15/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 147, in
globals()[__func_name] = __get_hash(__func_name)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.15/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 97, in __get_builtin_constructor
raise ValueError('unsupported hash type ' + name)
ValueError: unsupported hash type md5
ERROR:root:code for hash sha1 was not found.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.15/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 147, in
globals()[__func_name] = __get_hash(__func_name)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.15/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 97, in __get_builtin_constructor
raise ValueError('unsupported hash type ' + name)
ValueError: unsupported hash type sha1
ERROR:root:code for hash sha224 was not found.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.15/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 147, in
globals()[__func_name] = __get_hash(__func_name)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.15/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 97, in __get_builtin_constructor
raise ValueError('unsupported hash type ' + name)
ValueError: unsupported hash type sha224
ERROR:root:code for hash sha256 was not found.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.15/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 147, in
globals()[__func_name] = __get_hash(__func_name)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.15/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 97, in __get_builtin_constructor
raise ValueError('unsupported hash type ' + name)
ValueError: unsupported hash type sha256
ERROR:root:code for hash sha384 was not found.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.15/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 147, in
globals()[__func_name] = __get_hash(__func_name)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.15/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 97, in __get_builtin_constructor
raise ValueError('unsupported hash type ' + name)
ValueError: unsupported hash type sha384
ERROR:root:code for hash sha512 was not found.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.15/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 147, in
globals()[__func_name] = __get_hash(__func_name)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.15/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 97, in __get_builtin_constructor
raise ValueError('unsupported hash type ' + name)
ValueError: unsupported hash type sha512
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.15/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 174, in _run_module_as_main
"main", fname, loader, pkg_name)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.15/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
exec code in run_globals
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/main.py", line 16, in
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/init.py", line 15, in
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/options.py", line 8, in
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/init.py", line 3, in
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 10, in
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 29, in
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.15/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/ssl.py", line 98, in
import _ssl # if we can't import it, let the error propagate
ImportError: dlopen(/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.15/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_ssl.so, 2): Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/libssl.1.0.0.dylib
Referenced from: /usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.15/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_ssl.so
Reason: image not found

[dstftw]

Broken SSL setup, nothing to do with youtube-dl.

[potsky]

@ijbh Do you have found a solution ? Same problem this morning :-(

[nicooprat]

I got the same issue on Mac OSX High Sierra (10.13.6), resolved with brew switch openssl 1.0.2s.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/59184347/758728

[potsky]

I did not work for me because I use youtube-dl to extract a m3u8 file and youtube-dl uses ffmpeg :

• youtube-dl requires ssl 1.0.0
• ffmpeg requires ssl 1.1
• me requires 🔫

It finally works:

• reinstall ssl 1.0.0 (youtube-dl starts but crashes as soon as it uses ffmpeg)
• backup directory /usr/local/opt/openssl/lib in ~/Desktop
• reinstall ssl 1.1 (youtube-dl crashes at start)
• cp ~/Desktop/libcrypto.1.0.0.dylib /usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/.
• cp ~/Desktop/libssl.1.0.0.dylib /usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/.
• everybody is happy ;-)

[mulholio]

Uninstalling with brew and reinstalling with pip fixed this for me.