Youtube is broken

[williamsAu4a83]

[debug] System config: [] [debug] User config: [] [debug] Custom config: [] [debug] Command-line args: [u'-F', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=63RmMXCd_bQ', u'-v'] [debug] Encodings: locale None, fs None, out None, pref UTF-8 [debug] youtube-dl version 2020.12.26 [debug] Python version 2.7.12 (CPython) - Linux-3.10.0-aarch64-with-libc [debug] exe versions: none [debug] Proxy map: {} [youtube:tab] watch_popup: Downloading webpage ERROR: Unable to extract yt initial data; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 803, in wrapper return func(self, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 824, in __extract_info ie_result = ie.extract(url) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 532, in extract ie_result = self._real_extract(url) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 3178, in _real_extract data = self._extract_yt_initial_data(item_id, webpage) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 300, in _extract_yt_initial_data self._YT_INITIAL_DATA_RE), webpage, 'yt initial data'), File "/usr/lib/python2.7/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1010, in _search_regex raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name) RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract yt initial data; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

[october262]

retry with this link - https://www.youtube.com/embed/63RmMXCd_bQ

[remitamine]

youtube-dl --ignore-config -v -F https://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=63RmMXCd_bQ
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--ignore-config', '-v', '-F', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=63RmMXCd_bQ']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.12.26
[debug] Python version 3.9.1 (CPython) - Linux-5.10.2-arch1-1-x86_64-with-glibc2.32
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.3.1, ffprobe 4.3.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] 63RmMXCd_bQ: Downloading webpage
[youtube] 63RmMXCd_bQ: Downloading m3u8 information
[youtube] 63RmMXCd_bQ: Downloading MPD manifest
[info] Available formats for 63RmMXCd_bQ:
format code  extension  resolution note
91           mp4        256x144    HLS  269k , avc1.4d400c, 30.0fps, mp4a.40.5@ 48k
92           mp4        426x240    HLS  507k , avc1.4d4015, 30.0fps, mp4a.40.5@ 48k
93           mp4        640x360    HLS  962k , avc1.4d401e, 30.0fps, mp4a.40.2@128k
94           mp4        854x480    HLS 1282k , avc1.4d401f, 30.0fps, mp4a.40.2@128k
95           mp4        1280x720   HLS 2447k , avc1.4d401f, 30.0fps, mp4a.40.2@256k
96           mp4        1920x1080  HLS 4561k , avc1.4d4028, 30.0fps, mp4a.40.2@256k (best)

[someziggyman]

For me -F format extraction also works fine. Tried from different countries with a VPN. But the download only works if --ffmpeg-location is specified since it's an m3u live stream. So, can't confirm any issue.