youtube-dl -F 'video url' crashed unable to extract uploader_id while yt-dlp is working fine

[pmo-19]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support issue
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
• I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• I've searched the bugtracker for similar bug reports including closed ones
• I've read bugs section in FAQ

Verbose log

$ youtube-dl -v -F 'https://youtu.be/AUAEBjlROWQ'
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '-F', 'https://youtu.be/AUAEBjlROWQ']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
[debug] Python version 3.10.12 (CPython) - Linux-6.2.0-32-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.35
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.4.2, ffprobe 4.4.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] AUAEBjlROWQ: Downloading webpage
[youtube] AUAEBjlROWQ: Downloading API JSON
ERROR: Unable to extract uploader id; 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/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 815, in wrapper
    return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 836, in __extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 534, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1794, in _real_extract
    'uploader_id': self._search_regex(r'/(?:channel|user)/([^/?&#]+)', owner_profile_url, 'uploader id') if owner_profile_url else None,
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1012, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract uploader id; 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.
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[winexe0]

I fixed it by running

pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall "git+https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl.git"

As I installed youtube-dl via pip

[pmo-19]

OK. Trouble is I installed only the package version and didn't intall with pip within Ubuntu Jammy 22.04.

My prior Ubuntu Focal 20.04 was using the pip install. Now I would like to uninstall the pip version which is messing the package version I believe ? However I don't know how to remove the pip installed version ...

[winexe0]

Just a

pip remove youtube-dl

[pmo-19]

$ sudo pip uninstall youtube-dl
Found existing installation: youtube-dl 2021.12.17
Not uninstalling youtube-dl at /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages, outside environment /usr
Can't uninstall 'youtube-dl'. No files were found to uninstall.
WARNING: Running pip as the 'root' user can result in broken permissions and conflicting behaviour with the system package manager. It is recommended to use a virtual environment instead: https://pip.pypa.io/warnings/venv
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pip remove doesn't exist as a command.

But it looks like there is no pip installed youtube-dl as the python file(s) are part of the Debian package.

[dirkf]

Read and follow #30839 !

[pmo-19]

OK. Great. I managed to build a working package from the nightly build 2023.09.25.

It works, however with 2 WARNINGS :

[youtube] AUAEBjlROWQ: Downloading API JSON
WARNING: unable to extract player URL; 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.
WARNING: [youtube] Unable to decode n-parameter: download likely to be throttled (expected string or bytes-like object Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1679, in _n_descramble
self._player_cache[player_id] = self._extract_n_function(video_id, player_url)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1644, in _extract_n_function
player_id = self._extract_player_info(player_url)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1476, in _extract_player_info
id_m = re.search(player_re, player_url)
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/re.py", line 200, in search
return _compile(pattern, flags).search(string)
TypeError: expected string or bytes-like object
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[youtube] AUAEBjlROWQ: Downloading API JSON
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As well according to Debian, yt-dlp is more up-to-date, and I can see more details on each format available for download.

[dirkf]

You've found issue #32499, which isn't yet fixed in the latest code here.

Debian is great but isn't a full source of information in this case. Packaged versions of yt-dl and yt-dlp can fail to keep up with the churn of target websites.

yt-dlp has more people working on it but wants you to have Python 3.8+ (or an OS that will run Python 3.8). That project acquires any good work that's done here and vice versa, depending on effort available.

Generally, if you like yt-dlp and your platform supports it, it will work well for you and probably be updated more quickly.