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ERROR: Signature extraction failed - ExtractorError: Cannot identify player u'https://s.ytimg.com/yts/jsbin/player-en_US-vflKkAVgb/base.js' #8894

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rrblocker opened this issue Mar 18, 2016 · 1 comment

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@rrblocker rrblocker commented Mar 18, 2016

/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl --verbose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUbp4pRCclI
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUbp4pRCclI']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.09.25
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Linux-3.13.0-83-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-14.04-trusty
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] Confirming age
[youtube] XUbp4pRCclI: Downloading webpage
[youtube] XUbp4pRCclI: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] XUbp4pRCclI: Extracting video information
[youtube] XUbp4pRCclI: Encrypted signatures detected.
WARNING: unable to extract html5 player; please report this issue on http://yt-dl.org/bug
[youtube] {22} signature length 44.43, html5 player None
ERROR: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 532, in _decrypt_signature
video_id, player_url, s
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 428, 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-vflKkAVgb/base.js'; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update.
; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 532, in _decrypt_signature
video_id, player_url, s
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 428, 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-vflKkAVgb/base.js'; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 524, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 181, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 917, in _real_extract
encrypted_sig, video_id, player_url, age_gate)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 542, in _decrypt_signature
'Signature extraction failed: ' + tb, cause=e)
ExtractorError: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 532, in _decrypt_signature
video_id, player_url, s
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 428, 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-vflKkAVgb/base.js'; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update.
; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update.

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@rg3 rg3 commented Mar 18, 2016

You're using an ancient version of youtube-dl. Please update to the latest version. You can get some hints on how to do that here:

https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl#how-do-i-update-youtube-dl

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