youtube-dl: "token" parameter not in video info for unknown reason;

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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

Add -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with, copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

$ youtube-dl -f 18 --verbose  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USg3NR76XpQ
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: [u'--netrc', u'--add-metadata', u'--user-agent', u'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:53.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/53.0', u'--add-header', u'Accept:text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8', u'--add-header', u'Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.5', u'--add-header', u'Accept-Encoding:gzip, deflate, br', u'--cookies', u'/home/xxxxx/cookie.txt', u'--continue']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-f', u'18', u'--verbose', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USg3NR76XpQ']
[debug] Adding header from command line option Accept:text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
[debug] Adding header from command line option Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.5
[debug] Adding header from command line option Accept-Encoding:gzip, deflate, br
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.05.09
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 - Linux-4.4.0-53-generic-x86_64-with-LinuxMint-18.1-serena
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, ffprobe 2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Downloading login page
[youtube] Looking up account info
[youtube] Logging in
[youtube] Checking cookie
[youtube] USg3NR76XpQ: Downloading webpage
[youtube] USg3NR76XpQ: Downloading video info webpage
ERROR: USg3NR76XpQ: "token" parameter not in video info for unknown reason; 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 "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 760, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 433, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1502, in _real_extract
    video_id=video_id)
ExtractorError: USg3NR76XpQ: "token" parameter not in video info for unknown reason; 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.


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### If the purpose of this *issue* is a *site support request* please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by **yours**):
- Single video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USg3NR76XpQ
 [Joe Rogan Experience #958 - Jordan Peterson]


Note that **youtube-dl does not support sites dedicated to [copyright infringement](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl#can-you-add-support-for-this-anime-video-site-or-site-which-shows-current-movies-for-free)**. In order for site support request to be accepted all provided example URLs should not violate any copyrights.

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### Description of your *issue*, suggested solution and other information
I tried all methods including taking out --prefer-insecure adding --netrc login etc cycle between older Ubuntu 16.04 youtube-dl version,latest wget from github,pip installation etc to no avail
The following error persist.I use direct access(i.e. just behind a regular router like everyone else) and no proxy etc.
ERROR: USg3NR76XpQ: "token" parameter not in video info for unknown reason; 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 "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 760, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 433, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1502, in _real_extract
    video_id=video_id)
ExtractorError: USg3NR76XpQ: "token" parameter not in video info for unknown reason; 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.

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Given that 5 people just posted on this thread in 20 minutes, I’m guessing something just happened to YouTube’s markup.

I’m having this error with the latest version.

Same here… also with the latest version…