youtube-dl: Unable to extract uploader id

Checklist

I’m reporting a broken site support issue
I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
I’ve checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
I’ve checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
I’ve searched the bugtracker for similar bug reports including closed ones
I’ve read bugs section in FAQ

Verbose log

:youtube-dl -U
youtube-dl is up-to-date (2021.12.17)

:youtube-dl "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLV23rsdy4I" --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLV23rsdy4I', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.19041
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-74700-g628a73f, ffprobe N-74700-g628a73f
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] oLV23rsdy4I: Downloading webpage
[youtube] oLV23rsdy4I: Downloading MPD manifest
ERROR: Unable to extract uploader id; 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\ytdl-org\tmpupik7c6w\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 815, in wrapper
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpupik7c6w\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 836, in __extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpupik7c6w\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 534, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpupik7c6w\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 1794, in _real_extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpupik7c6w\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 1012, in _search_regex
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract uploader id; 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

French computer, windows 10 family. well known ID issue, but even with the last version, not working (i’ve seen https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/31530)

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created a year ago
Reactions: 10
Comments: 18 (5 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

“Read it, then, and do what it suggests.”. yes, i read it. But I’m on Windows and don’t know how to use git. And most of the documentation seems to be unix(variant) based. So after a while of digging I found an alternative solution with yt-dlp. Not my fault you don’t help people who want to learn.

ississi on Jun 27, 2023

The output shows 2021.12.17 which is the latest version as per the https://yt-dl.org/ website.

SaintlyCoder on Jun 26, 2023

What I said, in fact, though git is not required. OP is using Windows, for which a pip solution is probably the wrong one.

dirkf on Jun 25, 2023

thank you, I’ve pieced together what I hope are the relevant bits for me from all the posts involved 😃

ississi on Jun 28, 2023

**Ytrog ** commented Jun 26, 2023 •

I can confirm this works Download the compiled binary file and use that

Description

Ubuntu Linux, Python3.8

obadul024 on Jun 26, 2023

Same issue on latest version.

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['https://youtu.be/j__MFhKvGQA', '-s', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.3, ffprobe 4.2.3
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] j__MFhKvGQA: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract uploader id; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the la
test version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complet
e output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpupik7c6w\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line
815, in wrapper
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpupik7c6w\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line
836, in __extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpupik7c6w\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py"
, line 534, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpupik7c6w\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py
", line 1794, in _real_extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpupik7c6w\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py"
, line 1012, in _search_regex
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract uploader id; 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 --verbos
e flag and include its complete output.

Did try to update, however this is the latest release.

Ytrog on Jun 26, 2023

Read it, then, and do what it suggests. Or post your failing installation log. You are not running a fixed version.

dirkf on Jun 25, 2023