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issue in downloading video on ubuntu 14 #6777

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Kmeesala opened this issue Sep 6, 2015 · 1 comment
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issue in downloading video on ubuntu 14 #6777

Kmeesala opened this issue Sep 6, 2015 · 1 comment

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@Kmeesala
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@Kmeesala Kmeesala commented Sep 6, 2015

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 356, in _search_regex
raise RegexNotFoundError(u'Unable to extract %s' % _name)
RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract Initial JS player signature function name;

I got this issue when I was trying to download using the following command

youtube-dl @video link

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@yan12125 yan12125 commented Sep 6, 2015

You need the latest version of youtube-dl. However, ubuntu often provides out-dated ones. Read this FAQ entry for more information.

@yan12125 yan12125 closed this Sep 6, 2015
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