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'uploader' information is null in YouTube playlist extractor

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I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dlc version 2020.11.11
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

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Hi, the uploader information is all null in the YouTube playlist extractor. More specifically, the ‘uploader’, ‘uploader_url’, and ‘uploader_id’. Here’s the response: https://ibb.co/hMz7HWG

This is the command that I’m using: youtube-dlc -v -4 -q --no-warnings -J --flat-playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU_aEa8K-EOJ3D6gOs7HcyNg

It used to include the uploader information before, but now it doesn’t.

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Created 3 years ago
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Comments:9 (3 by maintainers)

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coletdjnzcommented, Nov 11, 2020

Can confirm I am having an issue with this too. It seems like the regex for extracting the playlist title, uploader, etc is no longer valid. It probably needs to be updated to use the json data. Code at fault: https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc/blob/d052b9a112fb7ae749a829dceba6e3289663a303/youtube_dlc/extractor/youtube.py#L2971-L2986

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Sinnohcommented, Nov 16, 2020

Same Problem here when building from source (master-branch, d052b9a) %(playlist_title)s gets evaluated as NA in the output template.

I’d also suggest looking at #150 using their solution to fix this problem.

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