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Youtube: unable to extract html5 player: Signature extraction failed: #8150

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nickleverton opened this issue Jan 5, 2016 · 1 comment
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@nickleverton nickleverton commented Jan 5, 2016

Current git of youtube-dl gets an error from the video shown below. OS is Debian Jessie amd64. Let me know if I can provide any further diagnostics.

~/git/youtube-dl]$ ./youtube-dl --verbose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuanbnnzXQ4
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuanbnnzXQ4']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.11.01
[debug] Python version 2.7.9 - Linux-3.16.0-4-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-8.2
[debug] exe versions: avconv 2.8.3-1, avprobe 2.8.3-1, ffmpeg 2.8.3-1, ffprobe 2.8.3-1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {'no': 'proxy, warren, hub, router, wlan, .home, 192.168.'}
[youtube] GuanbnnzXQ4: Downloading webpage
[youtube] GuanbnnzXQ4: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] GuanbnnzXQ4: 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 43.43, html5 player None
ERROR: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 817, in _decrypt_signature
video_id, player_url, s
File "./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-vflnrstgx/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-vflnrstgx/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 "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 817, in _decrypt_signature
video_id, player_url, s
File "./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-vflnrstgx/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 "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 661, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 290, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1345, in _real_extract
encrypted_sig, video_id, player_url, age_gate)
File "./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 "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 817, in _decrypt_signature
video_id, player_url, s
File "./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-vflnrstgx/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-vflnrstgx/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.

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@dstftw dstftw commented Jan 5, 2016

You are using an outdated version of youtube-dl. Read our FAQ if you have troubles updating.

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