Youtube - Cannot Download 3 Videos (maybe more)

[arnepluhar]

Hi,

for three videos I would like to download from YouTube I'm running into the same error:
Video IDs:

• S2i1A_mc7Ao
• Yjt5UoTsB3A
• azYVl2J1zTY

It looks like the html5-player https://www.youtube.com/s/player/64dddad9/player_ias.vflset/en_US/base.js cannot be identified.

Sample output:

youtube-dl -F "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2i1A_mc7Ao" --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-F', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2i1A_mc7Ao', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.02.16
[debug] Python version 3.7.7 (CPython) - Darwin-19.3.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.2, ffprobe 4.2.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] S2i1A_mc7Ao: Downloading webpage
[youtube] S2i1A_mc7Ao: Downloading video info webpage
WARNING: unable to extract html5 player; 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.
[youtube] {18} signature length 100, html5 player None
ERROR: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1385, in _decrypt_signature
    video_id, player_url, s
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1262, in _extract_signature_function
    raise ExtractorError('Cannot identify player %r' % player_url)
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Cannot identify player 'https://www.youtube.com/s/player/64dddad9/player_ias.vflset/en_US/base.js'; 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.
 (caused by ExtractorError("Cannot identify player 'https://www.youtube.com/s/player/**64dddad9**/player_ias.vflset/en_US/base.js'; 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.")); 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/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1385, in _decrypt_signature
    video_id, player_url, s
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1262, in _extract_signature_function
    raise ExtractorError('Cannot identify player %r' % player_url)
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Cannot identify player 'https://www.youtube.com/s/player/64dddad9/player_ias.vflset/en_US/base.js'; 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/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1385, in _decrypt_signature
    video_id, player_url, s
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1262, in _extract_signature_function
    raise ExtractorError('Cannot identify player %r' % player_url)
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Cannot identify player 'https://www.youtube.com/s/player/64dddad9/player_ias.vflset/en_US/base.js'; 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.

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 796, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 530, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 2048, in _real_extract
    encrypted_sig, video_id, player_url, age_gate)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1395, in _decrypt_signature
    'Signature extraction failed: ' + tb, cause=e)
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1385, in _decrypt_signature
    video_id, player_url, s
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1262, in _extract_signature_function
    raise ExtractorError('Cannot identify player %r' % player_url)
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Cannot identify player 'https://www.youtube.com/s/player/64dddad9/player_ias.vflset/en_US/base.js'; 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.
 (caused by ExtractorError("Cannot identify player 'https://www.youtube.com/s/player/64dddad9/player_ias.vflset/en_US/base.js'; 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.")); 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.

[arnepluhar]

Thx for the hint. I didn't know, that brew-repos for yt-dl are so outdated. Maybe it's worth to write a comment in the main readme that you still need to update yt-dl manually and not via brew.