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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- State: closed
- Created 7 years ago
- Comments: 21 (1 by maintainers)
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.
https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/20758#issuecomment-486016882
Same here… also with the latest version…