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Unable to download youtube videos: Signature extraction Failed #5255
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I have been using youtube-dl for quite some time now and I would like to thank the developers for making this.
However, recently I am not able to download videos from youtube, here is the output.( I have made sure that the recent version is being used)
rahul@rahul-Aspire-5738:
$ youtube-dl --verbose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y7ygEDRpSo/Music/%(title)s.%(ext)s'][debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: ['--output', '
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y7ygEDRpSo']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.02.11
[debug] Python version 2.7.8 - Linux-3.16.0-31-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-14.10-utopic
[debug] exe versions: avconv 11.2, avprobe 11.2, ffmpeg 1.2.6-7, ffprobe 1.2.6-7, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {'ftp': 'ftp://10.3.100.207:8080/', 'http': 'http://10.3.100.207:8080/', 'https': 'https://10.3.100.207:8080/', 'socks': 'socks://10.3.100.207:8080/'}
[youtube] 0y7ygEDRpSo: Downloading webpage
[youtube] 0y7ygEDRpSo: Extracting video information
[youtube] {22} signature length 43.42, html5 player en_US-vflicH9X6
[youtube] 0y7ygEDRpSo: Downloading js player en_US-vflicH9X6
ERROR: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 635, in _decrypt_signature
video_id, player_url, s
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 549, in _extract_signature_function
res = self._parse_sig_js(code)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 613, in _parse_sig_js
initial_function = jsi.extract_function(funcname)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/jsinterp.py", line 244, in extract_function
raise ExtractorError('Could not find JS function %r' % funcname)
ExtractorError: Could not find JS function u'iG'; 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"Could not find JS function u'iG'; 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 635, in _decrypt_signature
video_id, player_url, s
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 549, in _extract_signature_function
res = self._parse_sig_js(code)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 613, in _parse_sig_js
initial_function = jsi.extract_function(funcname)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/jsinterp.py", line 244, in extract_function
raise ExtractorError('Could not find JS function %r' % funcname)
ExtractorError: Could not find JS function u'iG'; 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 633, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 270, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1066, in _real_extract
encrypted_sig, video_id, player_url, age_gate)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 645, 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 635, in _decrypt_signature
video_id, player_url, s
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 549, in _extract_signature_function
res = self._parse_sig_js(code)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 613, in _parse_sig_js
initial_function = jsi.extract_function(funcname)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/jsinterp.py", line 244, in extract_function
raise ExtractorError('Could not find JS function %r' % funcname)
ExtractorError: Could not find JS function u'iG'; 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"Could not find JS function u'iG'; 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.