Youtube-dl error: unable to extract uploader id

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Sign up. Sign in. Giorgos Myrianthous. In this short article, we will delve into the root cause of this issue and offer several workarounds to help you resolve it. A new release seems to have introduced a bug that would raise an error when attempting to download a YouTube video with yt-dlp library.

Youtube-dl error: unable to extract uploader id

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community. Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account. All videos seem to fail to download, I believe this is an update by YouTube. It could be that I'm IP banned, but I have verified this on external servers. The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:. Seeing the same issue and verified I can reproduce with a a video I was able to download a few months ago. Sorry, something went wrong. I haven't been able to download anything for a while. I recall the website getting taken down by a court ruling in Germany, but not the actual utility. Could this potentially be a next step in the lawsuit? For me personally, since I rarely use it, this was an acceptable workaround for the moment.

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Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community. Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account. Description I'm encountering an issue with youtube-dl where it's unable to extract the uploader ID from YouTube videos. This issue occurs even after ensuring that I am using the latest version of youtube-dl The error persists across different videos. Checklist I'm reporting a broken site support issue I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

Youtube-dl error: unable to extract uploader id

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community. Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account. I can't use the -g option with youtube-dl. Removing the --no-check-certificate flag doesn't change anything btw. The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:.

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I've fully downloaded a video just a few seconds ago. It could be that I'm IP banned, but I have verified this on external servers. I'm having the exact same error as OP. There is a release of yt-dlp that includes the fix. Dismiss alert. Could this potentially be a next step in the lawsuit? See below for ways to update to a fixed version of youtube-dl. Using youtube-dl version Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Hayk Simonyan. Notifications Fork 9. At the time this article was written no release that fixes this bug was made. To solve this, we'll manually download the ytdl.

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Before you go:. Jump to bottom. Checklist I'm reporting a broken site support I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version I wasn't able to reproduce the issue at first either, but I was able to confirm the change in site behavior through affected users' page dumps. Already on GitHub? Reload to refresh your session. Member-only story. Last edited by LockBot on Mon Sep 25, am, edited 2 times in total. That's not the real fix. Youtube-dl is fried; do I update to yt-dlp? I'm kinda sad I haven't used python at all in about 7 years. New issue. To solve this, we'll manually download the ytdl.