YouTube for Schools and "unable to extract uploader nickname"

[gear3D]

Currently using YouTube for Schools (http://www.youtube.com/schools) on site. Have setup a user through the YouTube admin panel. User is able to login successfully and view content unrestricted.
Example video is allowed/unfiltered for YouTube for Schools. Also receive same error for blocked/filtered content even passed YouTube account credentials.

youtube-dl -i -ctf 22 -u USER_NAME -p PASSWORD http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3AdFjklR50
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] Logging in
[youtube] Confirming age
[youtube] w3AdFjklR50: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] w3AdFjklR50: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] w3AdFjklR50: Extracting video information
WARNING: unable to extract uploader nickname
ERROR: unexpected call to parse_endtag

youtube-dl -v[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.02.02
[debug] Python version 2.7.2+ - Linux-3.0.0-12-generic-i686-with-Ubuntu-11.10-oneiric

Couldn't see any other posts regarding YouTube for Schools restriction. Not sure if you've had to tackle this in the past.

[phihag]

That sure looks like a mistake on our part, sorry! I'll look into how we can fix that.

[phihag]

The video is not available in that format, but anonymous access works fine for me:

$ youtube-dl -i -ct  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3AdFjklR50
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] w3AdFjklR50: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] w3AdFjklR50: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] w3AdFjklR50: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: Japan Earthquake - Helicopter aerial view video of giant tsunami waves-w3AdFjklR50.flv
[download] 100.0% of 13.94M at  143.36k/s ETA 00:00

Can you reproduce that?

[gear3D]

Thank you very much for checking this out, Philipp. I must apologies for
only getting back to you now.

youtube-dl -ict http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3AdFjklR50
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] w3AdFjklR50: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] w3AdFjklR50: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] w3AdFjklR50: Extracting video information
WARNING: unable to extract uploader nickname
ERROR: unexpected call to parse_endtag

youtube-dl -ict -u USER_NAME -p PASSWORD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3AdFjklR50
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] Logging in
[youtube] Confirming age
[youtube] w3AdFjklR50: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] w3AdFjklR50: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] w3AdFjklR50: Extracting video information
WARNING: unable to extract uploader nickname
ERROR: unexpected call to parse_endtag

Caleb

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Philipp Hagemeister <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

The video is not available in that format, but anonymous access works fine
for me:

$ youtube-dl -i -ct http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3AdFjklR50
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] w3AdFjklR50: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] w3AdFjklR50: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] w3AdFjklR50: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: Japan Earthquake - Helicopter aerial view video of giant tsunami waves-w3AdFjklR50.flv
[download] 100.0% of 13.94M at 143.36k/s ETA 00:00

Can you reproduce that?

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[TheBoroer]

I'm running into the same issue with this video URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74wZR1nqUkg

This is the output from running the command:
youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74wZR1nqUkg -v

PS. It can't even list all the available formats. This only happens to some videos.

EDIT: This error happens with and without using youtube login credentials.

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74wZR1nqUkg', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.08.05
[debug] Python version 2.6.6 - Linux-3.10.23-xxxx-std-ipv6-64-x86_64-with-centos-6.5-Final
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] 74wZR1nqUkg: Downloading webpage
[youtube] 74wZR1nqUkg: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 74wZR1nqUkg: Extracting video information
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/runpy.py", line 122, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/runpy.py", line 34, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "./youtube-link/__main__.py", line 18, in <module>
  File "./youtube-link/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 890, in main
  File "./youtube-link/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 880, in _real_main
  File "./youtube-link/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1052, in download
  File "./youtube-link/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 516, in extract_info
  File "./youtube-link/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 170, in extract
  File "./youtube-link/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 706, in _real_extract
  File "./youtube-link/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 373, in get_element_by_id
  File "./youtube-link/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 379, in get_element_by_attribute
  File "./youtube-link/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 302, in loads
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/HTMLParser.py", line 108, in feed
    self.goahead(0)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/HTMLParser.py", line 150, in goahead
    k = self.parse_endtag(i)
  File "./youtube-link/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 369, in <lambda>
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/HTMLParser.py", line 310, in parse_endtag
    assert rawdata[i:i+2] == "</", "unexpected call to parse_endtag"
AssertionError: unexpected call to parse_endtag

[jaimeMF]

With the video from @blackpropeller I can reproduce the problem with python 2.6.8, but it works in 2.7 and 3.4

[dstftw]

Works fine with latest version.