Youtube - Like and Dislike counters inside JSON sometimes empty

[RomanEmelyanov]

Youtube - Like and Dislike counter inside JSON sometimes empty:

$./youtube-dl --version
2020.06.16.1

Error with videos example:

$ ./youtube-dl -J https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSGBVzeBUbk | json_pp | grep -i count
"dislike_count" : null,
"view_count" : 16774885,
"like_count" : null,
$ ./youtube-dl -J https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzixp8s4pyg | json_pp | grep -i count
"like_count" : null,
"view_count" : 11937665,
"dislike_count" : null,

Good with videos example:

$ ./youtube-dl -J https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO0yXC0oyIA | json_pp | grep -i count
"dislike_count" : 625,
"view_count" : 2705803,
"like_count" : 31129,
$ ./youtube-dl -J https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTcNtgA6gHs | json_pp | grep -i count
"view_count" : 36788300,
"like_count" : 169235,
"dislike_count" : 3880,

[RomanEmelyanov]

Workaround diff for file youtube.py

def _extract_count(count_name):
            return str_to_int(self._search_regex(
                -r'-%s-button[^>]+><span[^>]+class="yt-uix-button-content"[^>]*>([\d,]+)</span>'
                +r'\\"%sCount\\":([\d,]+),'
                % re.escape(count_name),
                video_webpage, count_name, default=None))

[vootshiclone]

def _extract_count(count_name):
return str_to_int(self._search_regex(
-r'-%s-button[^>]+><span[^>]+class="yt-uix-button-content"[^>]*>([\d,]+)'
+r'\"%sCount\":([\d,]+),'
% re.escape(count_name),
video_webpage, count_name, default=None))

Still empty for all the videos for me. Any advice?

[RomanEmelyanov]

Use this patch:

def _extract_count(count_name):
            return str_to_int(self._search_regex(
                r'([0-9,]+) %ss"}}'
                % re.escape(count_name),
                video_webpage, count_name, default=None))

[vootshiclone]

Use this patch:

def _extract_count(count_name):
            return str_to_int(self._search_regex(
                r'([0-9,]+) %ss"}}'
                % re.escape(count_name),
                video_webpage, count_name, default=None))

It worked! Thank you!