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Unable to extract JS player URL

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Checklist

I’m reporting a broken site support issue
I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dlc version 2020.10.26
I’ve checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
I’ve checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
I’ve searched the bugtracker for similar bug reports including closed ones
I’ve read bugs section in FAQ

Verbose log

youtube-dlc -v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNlhTKTHgpo
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNlhTKTHgpo']
[debug] Loading archive file None
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dlc version 2020.10.26
[debug] Python version 3.8.6 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.18362-SP0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.1, ffprobe 4.2.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] rNlhTKTHgpo: Downloading webpage
[youtube] rNlhTKTHgpo: Downloading embed webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract JS player URL; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dlc -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dlc with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "youtube_dlc\YoutubeDL.py", line 830, in extract_info
  File "youtube_dlc\extractor\common.py", line 532, in extract
  File "youtube_dlc\extractor\youtube.py", line 2065, in _real_extract
  File "youtube_dlc\extractor\common.py", line 1010, in _search_regex
youtube_dlc.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract JS player URL; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dlc -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dlc with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

Description

Unable to extract JS player URL error

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 years ago
Reactions:11
Comments:6 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

5reactions

greyboxgtcommented, Oct 30, 2020

Not fixed here: https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc/releases/latest/download/youtube-dlc.exe Please undersdand that not everybody is able to compile the code.

4reactions

greyboxgtcommented, Oct 30, 2020

I also see this often using version 2020.10.26, especially when using --cookies option and/or working within 65001 (UTF-8) code page (if I add chcp 65001 command).