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[youtube] Cannot identify player bug, latest version #7421

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rozap opened this issue Nov 10, 2015 · 2 comments
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[youtube] Cannot identify player bug, latest version #7421

rozap opened this issue Nov 10, 2015 · 2 comments

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@rozap
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@rozap rozap commented Nov 10, 2015

Ran into this issue, then i updated via pip, and the issue persists.

Version:

chris@chris-laptop:~/workspace/usic$ youtube-dl --version
2015.11.02

Output:

chris@chris-laptop:~/workspace/usic$ youtube-dl --verbose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq7wSIDjAes
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq7wSIDjAes']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.11.02
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Linux-3.13.0-29-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-14.04-trusty
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 1.2.6-7, ffprobe 1.2.6-7, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Eq7wSIDjAes: Downloading webpage
[youtube] Eq7wSIDjAes: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] Eq7wSIDjAes: Extracting video information
WARNING: unable to extract html5 player; 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.
[youtube] {43} signature length 40.44, html5 player None
ERROR: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 817, in _decrypt_signature
    video_id, player_url, s
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 709, in _extract_signature_function
    raise ExtractorError('Cannot identify player %r' % player_url)
ExtractorError: Cannot identify player u'https://s.ytimg.com/yts/jsbin/player-en_US-vfljDEtYP/base.js'; 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.
 (caused by ExtractorError(u"Cannot identify player u'https://s.ytimg.com/yts/jsbin/player-en_US-vfljDEtYP/base.js'; 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.",)); 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/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 817, in _decrypt_signature
    video_id, player_url, s
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 709, in _extract_signature_function
    raise ExtractorError('Cannot identify player %r' % player_url)
ExtractorError: Cannot identify player u'https://s.ytimg.com/yts/jsbin/player-en_US-vfljDEtYP/base.js'; 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/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 661, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 290, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1345, in _real_extract
    encrypted_sig, video_id, player_url, age_gate)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 827, in _decrypt_signature
    'Signature extraction failed: ' + tb, cause=e)
ExtractorError: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 817, in _decrypt_signature
    video_id, player_url, s
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 709, in _extract_signature_function
    raise ExtractorError('Cannot identify player %r' % player_url)
ExtractorError: Cannot identify player u'https://s.ytimg.com/yts/jsbin/player-en_US-vfljDEtYP/base.js'; 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.
 (caused by ExtractorError(u"Cannot identify player u'https://s.ytimg.com/yts/jsbin/player-en_US-vfljDEtYP/base.js'; 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.",)); 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.

I've looked for similar errors, but they were all due to people using ancient versions. Anyone seen this before?

@bstoked
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@bstoked bstoked commented Nov 10, 2015

Yes, I had to use the latest source on my Mac and that worked fine last night. However today it stopped working.

@dstftw
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@dstftw dstftw commented Nov 10, 2015

Duplicate of #7413. This is already fixed and will be available in the next version.

@dstftw dstftw closed this Nov 10, 2015
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