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Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites
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RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract Initial JS player signature function name #6741

Closed rationalistquestioning closed 9 years ago

rationalistquestioning commented 9 years ago

Hi ,

I am getting this error while i have latest update of youtube-dl.

sukanyar@sukanyar-K55VM:~$ sudo youtube-dl -U youtube-dl is up-to-date (2015.08.28) sukanyar@sukanyar-K55VM:~$ youtube-dl "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdhY-uRL0Gw" [youtube] Setting language [youtube] xdhY-uRL0Gw: Downloading webpage [youtube] xdhY-uRL0Gw: Downloading video info webpage [youtube] xdhY-uRL0Gw: Extracting video information [youtube] xdhY-uRL0Gw: Encrypted signatures detected. [youtube] xdhY-uRL0Gw: Downloading js player new ERROR: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 479, in _decrypt_signature video_id, player_url, s File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 383, in _extract_signature_function res = self._parse_sig_js(code) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 454, in _parse_sig_js u'Initial JS player signature function name') File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 391, in _search_regex raise RegexNotFoundError(u'Unable to extract %s' % _name) RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract Initial JS player signature function name; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. ; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. sukanyar@sukanyar-K55VM:~$ youtube-dl --verbose "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdhY-uRL0Gw" [debug] System config: [] [debug] User config: [] [debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdhY-uRL0Gw'] [debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8 [debug] youtube-dl version 2014.08.05 [debug] Python version 2.7.8 - Linux-3.16.0-44-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-14.10-utopic [debug] Proxy map: {} [youtube] Setting language [youtube] xdhY-uRL0Gw: Downloading webpage [youtube] xdhY-uRL0Gw: Downloading video info webpage [youtube] xdhY-uRL0Gw: Extracting video information [youtube] xdhY-uRL0Gw: Encrypted signatures detected. [youtube] {22} signature length 44.40, html5 player new [youtube] xdhY-uRL0Gw: Downloading js player new ERROR: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 479, in _decrypt_signature video_id, player_url, s File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 383, in _extract_signature_function res = self._parse_sig_js(code) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 454, in _parse_sig_js u'Initial JS player signature function name') File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 391, in _search_regex raise RegexNotFoundError(u'Unable to extract %s' % _name)

Please help me in finding a solution to this or fixing it.

Warm regards Rationalist

yan12125 commented 9 years ago

Look at this line in the verbose log

[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.08.05

Have you installed two or more versions of youtube-dl?

rationalistquestioning commented 9 years ago

hi Yen Chi Hsuan,

Thank you for your reply !

Looks like it is fixed in 2015.08.28

K55VM:~$ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUrwH7dBaRI [youtube] TUrwH7dBaRI: Downloading webpage [youtube] TUrwH7dBaRI: Downloading video info webpage [youtube] TUrwH7dBaRI: Extracting video information [youtube] TUrwH7dBaRI: Downloading js player en_US-vfl90tmOk [youtube] TUrwH7dBaRI: Downloading DASH manifest [download] Destination: Cisco Live 2015 - Software Defined Networking (SDN) Expert Joe Clarke-oIGrWuyof4o.f248.webm [download] 1.9% of 51.11MiB at 141.12KiB/s ETA 06:03

No more errors..

Warm regards Rationalist

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Yen Chi Hsuan notifications@github.com wrote:

Look at this line in the verbose log

[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.08.05

Have you installed two or more versions of youtube-dl?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/6741#issuecomment-137004406.