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1 year ago tldr; (and who can blame you?)
Updating with -U won't work until there is a new release. However, there is now a nightly build of youtube-dl in our repo here: https://github.com/ytdl-org/ytdl-nightly/releases. You can install this in the same ways as described in the manual, but change the URL for the download to match the appropriate one on the nightly release page. This is the way to go if you want a single file executable build, or if other methods don't succeed. See my post below for a script, or use a package like python-is-python3, or make a symbolic link, if your environment is POSIX-like and you don't have a Python called python.
If you installed with a package manager (apt, yum, brew, winget, etc), you may find that the maintainers of your package repository have updated the package from a fixed development version (but, eg, Ubuntu so far only has a PPA update; see below for brew). As suggested by @HinTak, you could also ask the packagers of yt-dl in your package or distro repository to update the package from the git master of this repo, though some prefer only release builds.
If you have a Python installation, use pip to install from the git master of this repo: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/31530#issuecomment-1435477247.
If your yt-dl was installed with a package manager that needed admin, the command to update the module will need the same.
If you installed with brew, brew can now update you to a patched version that doesn't crash, but is not the latest git master. You can also try the --HEAD option to update to the latest master code, similar to the pip-based suggestions.
Or you can try using yt-dlp instead if your environment supports it: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp.
Obviously, if you've tried to update in one of these ways and the original issue persists, the update didn't work: you are still running the release version or a development version that doesn't include the fix. Please check exactly how your yt-dl was installed and update accordingly. It may be easiest just to uninstall it and install the appropriate single file nightly build instead.
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[YouTube] Unable to extract uploader id
``` yt-dlp.exe" -x -4 --download-archive "C:\Youtube-dlp\download_history.txt" --external-downloader aria2c --restrict-filenames --match-filter "description*='ESTRENO'" --audio-format mp3 -o "E:\FOLDER\RENAME\%%(title)s.%%(ext)s" "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcusH7ksCNw&list=PLuXU-g7mjkKPvWSFq7xI_N4Xj7A3iSOU3&index=67" -v [debug] Command-line config: ['-x', '-4', '--download-archive', 'C:\\Youtube-dlp\\download_history.txt', '--external-downloader', 'aria2c', '--restrict-filenames', '--match-filter', "description*='ESTRENO'", '--audio-format', 'mp3', '-o', 'E:\\A.PROCESAR\\RENAME\\%%(title)s.%%(ext)s', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcusH7ksCNw&list=PLuXU-g7mjkKPvWSFq7xI_N4Xj7A3iSOU3&index=67', '-v'] [debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, pref cp1252, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8 [debug] yt-dlp version 2023.01.06 [6becd25] (win_exe) [debug] Python 3.8.10 (CPython AMD64 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.19044-SP0 (OpenSSL 1.1.1k 25 Mar 2021) [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-109541-g94aa70d757-20230109 (setts), ffprobe N-109541-g94aa70d757-20230109, phantomjs 2.1.1 [debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.16.0, brotli-1.0.9, certifi-2022.12.07, mutagen-1.46.0, sqlite3-2.6.0, websockets-10.4 [debug] Proxy map: {} [debug] Loaded 1760 extractors [debug] Loading archive file 'C:\\Youtube-dlp\\ download_history.txt' [youtube:tab] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcusH7ksCNw&list=PLuXU-g7mjkKPvWSFq7xI_N4Xj7A3iSOU3&index=67 [youtube:tab] Downloading playlist PLuXU-g7mjkKPvWSFq7xI_N4Xj7A3iSOU3 - add --no-playlist to download just the video lcusH7ksCNw [youtube:tab] PLuXU-g7mjkKPvWSFq7xI_N4Xj7A3iSOU3: Downloading webpage [youtube:tab] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuXU-g7mjkKPvWSFq7xI_N4Xj7A3iSOU3 [youtube:tab] PLuXU-g7mjkKPvWSFq7xI_N4Xj7A3iSOU3: Downloading webpage [youtube:tab] PLuXU-g7mjkKPvWSFq7xI_N4Xj7A3iSOU3: Redownloading playlist API JSON with unavailable videos [download] Downloading playlist: LA VENGANZA SERÁ TERRIBLE (Programas) [youtube:tab] Playlist LA VENGANZA SERÁ TERRIBLE (Programas): Downloading 67 items of 67 [download] Downloading item 1 of 67 [youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h5-QPbKoVg [youtube] 3h5-QPbKoVg: Downloading webpage [youtube] 3h5-QPbKoVg: Downloading android player API JSON [debug] Loading youtube-nsig.1cbba2b4 from cache WARNING: [youtube] 3h5-QPbKoVg: Native nsig extraction failed: Trying with PhantomJS n = GDZ_5inyZ3r6QSP ; player = https://www.youtube.com/s/player/1cbba2b4/player_ias.vflset/en_US/base.js [debug] [youtube] Signature function returned an exception; please report this issue on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using yt-dlp -U [youtube] 3h5-QPbKoVg: Executing signature code [debug] [youtube] PhantomJS command line: phantomjs "--ssl-protocol=any" "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp88untizd" [debug] [youtube] Decrypted nsig GDZ_5inyZ3r6QSP => ECvndyupC0ex4A ERROR: [youtube] 3h5-QPbKoVg: Unable to extract uploader id; please report this issue on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using yt-dlp -U File "yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 680, in extract File "yt_dlp\extractor\youtube.py", line 4049, in _real_extract File "yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 1228, in _search_regex ```Description
[Revised by @dirkf] OP actually reported the bug for yt-dlp.
The problem, which was revealed by a change in the metadata served by YouTube, applied to both youtube-dl and yt-dlp and has been fixed in both programs.
There is a release of yt-dlp that includes the fix. See #31535 for discussion of whether this would be a good choice for you.
See below for ways to update to a fixed version of youtube-dl. Using
-Udoesn't (yet) work. A new release may be created, including the final fix, some time later than now. However, there is now a nightly build from the latest code here.There's no point posting your log that shows the error now: feel free to thumb-up this post. Also, be aware that the initial patch still flagged the original issue as a WARNING; the fully fixed yt-dl doesn't. Consider raising a separate issue if your fixed yt-dl shows a different error.