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Youtube: Signature extraction failed #7440
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You are using an outdated version of youtube-dl. Read our FAQ if you have troubles updating. |
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I beg your pardon. I use Macports to update, and as of last night, yt-dl 2015.11.02 was the latest. Today I updated the macports source tree, then yt-dl, and whaddya know, it works. Thanks |
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I use this all the time but this is one case I encountered this failure.
Cannot download and cannot even list formats.
youtube-dl --verbose -F http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRCYEkA0_q8
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-F', u'--verbose', u'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRCYEkA0_q8']
[debug] Encodings: locale US-ASCII, fs utf-8, out US-ASCII, pref US-ASCII
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.11.02
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Darwin-15.0.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.1, ffprobe 2.8.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] zRCYEkA0_q8: Downloading webpage
[youtube] zRCYEkA0_q8: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] zRCYEkA0_q8: 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; type youtube-dl -U 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 "/opt/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 817, in _decrypt_signature
video_id, player_url, s
File "/opt/local/bin/youtube-dl/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; 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"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; 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 "/opt/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 817, in _decrypt_signature
video_id, player_url, s
File "/opt/local/bin/youtube-dl/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; 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 "/opt/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 661, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/opt/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 290, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/opt/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1345, in _real_extract
encrypted_sig, video_id, player_url, age_gate)
File "/opt/local/bin/youtube-dl/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 "/opt/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 817, in _decrypt_signature
video_id, player_url, s
File "/opt/local/bin/youtube-dl/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; 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"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; 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.
[End trace output.]