Signature extraction failed

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Hello,

I am trying to download a video. It works on other videos but not the one i need. Can someone point me to what I might be doing wrong?

Verbose output:

Johns-MacBook-Pro:desktop john$ youtube-dl --verbose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2joj7WYRo8

[debug] System config: []

[debug] User config: []

[debug] Custom config: []

[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2joj7WYRo8']

[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8

[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.02.16

[debug] Python version 2.7.10 (CPython) - Darwin-17.7.0-x86_64-i386-64bit

[debug] exe versions: none

[debug] Proxy map: {}

[youtube] h2joj7WYRo8: Downloading webpage

[youtube] h2joj7WYRo8: 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; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

[youtube] {18} signature length 105, html5 player None

ERROR: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1385, in _decrypt_signature

video_id, player_url, s

File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1262, in _extract_signature_function

raise ExtractorError('Cannot identify player %r' % player_url)

ExtractorError: Cannot identify player u'https://www.youtube.com/s/player/52b1e972/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; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

(caused by ExtractorError(u"Cannot identify player u'https://www.youtube.com/s/player/52b1e972/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; type youtube-dl -U 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; type youtube-dl -U 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/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1385, in _decrypt_signature

video_id, player_url, s

File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1262, in _extract_signature_function

raise ExtractorError('Cannot identify player %r' % player_url)

ExtractorError: Cannot identify player u'https://www.youtube.com/s/player/52b1e972/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; type youtube-dl -U 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/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 796, in extract_info

ie_result = ie.extract(url)

File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 530, in extract

ie_result = self._real_extract(url)

File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 2048, in _real_extract

encrypted_sig, video_id, player_url, age_gate)

File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1395, in _decrypt_signature

'Signature extraction failed: ' + tb, cause=e)

ExtractorError: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1385, in _decrypt_signature

video_id, player_url, s

File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1262, in _extract_signature_function

raise ExtractorError('Cannot identify player %r' % player_url)

ExtractorError: Cannot identify player u'https://www.youtube.com/s/player/52b1e972/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; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

(caused by ExtractorError(u"Cannot identify player u'https://www.youtube.com/s/player/52b1e972/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; type youtube-dl -U 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; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.