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ERROR: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last) #7459
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I am facing the error below when I try to download some Youtube videos:
ERROR: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 771, in _decrypt_signature video_id, player_url, s
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 663, 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-vfl5u6mls/base.js';
(caused by ExtractorError(u"Cannot identify player u'https://s.ytimg.com/yts/jsbin/player-en_US-vfl5u6mls/base.js';
youtube-dl --version
2015.10.16
CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 (Core)
Derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 (Source)
cat: /etc/lsb-release.d: Is a directory
NAME="CentOS Linux"
VERSION="7 (Core)"