YouTube said: Unable to extract video data

[MrDragonBoi]

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Python version 3.8.5 - Windows 10 Home
youtube-dl version 2020.07.28

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Whenever I try to use my play command (this is a discord.py project), it only takes one word from a video. Otherwise, it would come up with the "YouTube said: Unable to extract Video Data" error.

This is my options:
YTDL_OPTIONS = { 'format': 'bestaudio', 'extractaudio': True, 'audioformat': 'mp3', 'outtmpl': '%(extractor)s-%(id)s-%(title)s.%(ext)s', 'restrictfilenames': True, 'noplaylist': True, 'nocheckcertificate': True, 'ignoreerrors': True, 'logtostderr': True, 'quiet': True, 'no_warnings': True, 'default_search': 'ytsearch', 'source_address': '0.0.0.0' }

[ldexterldesign]

Problematic for me:

ldexterldesign@Lewiss-MacBook-Pro imperial walker % youtube-dl --format "bestvideo[height=720]+bestaudio/best" --ignore-errors --output '%(channel)s - %(uploader)s - %(playlist)s - %(upload_date)s - %(release_date)s - %(title)s - %(format)s - %(format_note)s.%(ext)s' "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLXYBXWUUxE" -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--format', 'bestvideo[height=720]+bestaudio/best', '--ignore-errors', '--output', '%(channel)s - %(uploader)s - %(playlist)s - %(upload_date)s - %(release_date)s - %(title)s - %(format)s - %(format_note)s.%(ext)s', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLXYBXWUUxE', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.07.28
[debug] Python version 3.8.5 (CPython) - macOS-10.15.6-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.3.1, ffprobe 4.3.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] tLXYBXWUUxE: Downloading webpage
ERROR: tLXYBXWUUxE: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 797, 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 1892, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError(
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: tLXYBXWUUxE: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data

It's an age restricted video:

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This video may be inappropriate for some users.

... so exploring --cookies solutions now...

If anyone knows the fix here then please let me know!

Sincerely

[ldexterldesign]

Yes, adding --cookie option solved my issue

Once logged in, I used this extension to grab my cookies from the YouTube page

Hope this helps

Sincerely

[MrDragonBoi]

I used a diffrent source, so this issue is (hopefully) fixed.