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Issue with Windows version YouTube-DL.exe (Cannot see windows Fix)

See original GitHub issue

Checklist

[ x ] I’m reporting a broken site support
[ x ] I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dl version 2021.06.06
[ x ] I’ve checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
[ x ] I’ve checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
[ x ] I’ve searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

Verbose log

c:\SYS586>youtube-dl "ytsearch10:Elton John Dua Lipa" --get-id --get-title --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['ytsearch10:Elton John Dua Lipa', '--get-id', '--get-title', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.09.26
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.19041
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg git-2020-04-26-1128aa8, ffprobe git-2020-04-26-1128aa8
[debug] Proxy map: {}
ERROR: query "Elton John Dua Lipa": Failed to parse JSON  (caused by ValueError('Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)',)); 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 "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpcaq35cl9\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 871, in _parse_json
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\json\__init__.py", line 318, in loads
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\json\decoder.py", line 343, in decode
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\json\decoder.py", line 361, in raw_decode
ValueError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpcaq35cl9\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 871, in _parse_json
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\json\__init__.py", line 318, in loads
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\json\decoder.py", line 343, in decode
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\json\decoder.py", line 361, in raw_decode
ValueError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpcaq35cl9\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 792, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpcaq35cl9\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 507, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpcaq35cl9\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 2860, in _real_extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpcaq35cl9\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 2684, in _get_n_results
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpcaq35cl9\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 864, in _download_json
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpcaq35cl9\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 848, in _download_json_handle
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpcaq35cl9\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 875, in _parse_json
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: query "Elton John Dua Lipa": Failed to parse JSON  (caused by ValueError('Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)',)); 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.

Description

Hi, please see issue on windows, there is a fix for other platforms but I cannot see any fix for windows.

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Created 2 years ago
Comments:9 (6 by maintainers)

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lvqclcommented, Dec 16, 2021

[ x ] I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dl version 2021.06.06 … [debug] youtube-dl version 2018.09.26

lol

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pukkandancommented, Dec 21, 2021

Yes

➤ where youtube-dl
D:\Programs\Terminal\youtube-dl.exe

➤ pip install https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/archive/905d1d281ddfa5d183fc445010d350cefc6a58ec.zip
Collecting https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/archive/905d1d281ddfa5d183fc445010d350cefc6a58ec.zip
  Downloading https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/archive/905d1d281ddfa5d183fc445010d350cefc6a58ec.zip
     / 2.2 MB 544 kB/s
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done
Building wheels for collected packages: youtube-dl
  Building wheel for youtube-dl (setup.py) ... done
  Created wheel for youtube-dl: filename=youtube_dl-2021.12.17-py2.py3-none-any.whl size=1840680 sha256=6a43ca78aa3d0b4916bb627125fd4bbe24e87d9747ee98bda826b56c4dbbcaad
  Stored in directory: C:\Users\REDACTED\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-ephem-wheel-cache-9xbno022\wheels\9e\d1\8a\0fcad388f4d0c999cc72cb401f70970903996ec883ad9d2d07
Successfully built youtube-dl
Installing collected packages: youtube-dl
Successfully installed youtube-dl-2021.12.17

➤ where youtube-dl
D:\Programs\Portable\Python\Python10\Scripts\youtube-dl.exe
D:\Programs\Terminal\youtube-dl.exe

ofc, assuming “add to path” was ticked when installing python