youtube-dl: [youtube] Cannot identify player 'https://www.youtube.com/yts/jsbin/player-vflppxuSE/en_US/base.js'

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$ youtube-dl -f "bestaudio[ext!=webm]/best[ext!=webm]" --verbose 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VF0BlXP-0Y'
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-f', u'bestaudio[ext!=webm]/best[ext!=webm]', u'--verbose', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VF0BlXP-0Y']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.04.26
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 - CYGWIN_NT-6.1-2.6.1-0.305-5-3-x86_64-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-82225-gb4e9252
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] 0VF0BlXP-0Y: Downloading webpage
[youtube] 0VF0BlXP-0Y: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 0VF0BlXP-0Y: Extracting video information
WARNING: unable to extract html5 player; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
[youtube] {43} signature length 40.40, html5 player None
ERROR: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1081, in _decrypt_signature
    video_id, player_url, s
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 969, in _extract_signature_function
    raise ExtractorError('Cannot identify player %r' % player_url)
ExtractorError: Cannot identify player u'https://www.youtube.com/yts/jsbin/player-vflppxuSE/en_US/base.js'; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using thelatest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
 (caused by ExtractorError(u"Cannot identify player u'https://www.youtube.com/yts/jsbin/player-vflppxuSE/en_US/base.js'; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to callyoutube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.",)); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1081, in _decrypt_signature
    video_id, player_url, s
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 969, in _extract_signature_function
    raise ExtractorError('Cannot identify player %r' % player_url)
ExtractorError: Cannot identify player u'https://www.youtube.com/yts/jsbin/player-vflppxuSE/en_US/base.js'; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using thelatest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 760, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 429, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1642, in _real_extract
    encrypted_sig, video_id, player_url, age_gate)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1091, in _decrypt_signature
    'Signature extraction failed: ' + tb, cause=e)
ExtractorError: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1081, in _decrypt_signature
    video_id, player_url, s
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 969, in _extract_signature_function
    raise ExtractorError('Cannot identify player %r' % player_url)
ExtractorError: Cannot identify player u'https://www.youtube.com/yts/jsbin/player-vflppxuSE/en_US/base.js'; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using thelatest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
 (caused by ExtractorError(u"Cannot identify player u'https://www.youtube.com/yts/jsbin/player-vflppxuSE/en_US/base.js'; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to callyoutube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.",)); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

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Created 7 years ago
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[youtube] Recognize another HTML5 player URL (#12885) — committed to ytdl-org/youtube-dl by deleted user 7 years ago

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This may fix it? (I added ‘lang_REGION’ to the player url regex)

$ diff /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py ~/youtube.py
966c966
<             r'.*?-(?P<id>[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)(?:/watch_as3|/html5player(?:-new)?|/base)?\.(?P<ext>[a-z]+)$',
---
>             r'.*?-(?P<id>[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)(?:/[a-z]{2}_[A-Z]{2})?(?:/watch_as3|/html5player(?:-new)?|/base)?\.(?P<ext>[a-z]+)$',

+22

amoschu on Apr 28, 2017

@SuchKnife - in the Youtube.py which you accessed, you need to replace the regex on line 966 with r'.*?-(?P<id>[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)(?:/[a-z]{2}_[A-Z]{2})?(?:/watch_as3|/html5player(?:-new)?|/base)?\.(?P<ext>[a-z]+)$'

You don’t need to change anything else.

TomLongAshfords on Apr 28, 2017

How much it would take to become available from pip3 ?

If you have git, you can use pip install --upgrade git+https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl to fetch the latest commit. Otherwise you’ll need to wait until the release manager @dstftw has spare time.

yan12125 on Apr 28, 2017

@inhahe yeah it’s all videos for me too

@yan12125 how can I get youtube-dl to update to the version you just added a commit to?

mattjis on Apr 28, 2017

I’ve uploaded a fix based on @amoschu’s change. Feel free to leave comments if the problem is still.

yan12125 on Apr 28, 2017

Can confirm that the fix put forward by amoschu works on windows 10 you go to \AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\Lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\extractor edit youtube.py line 966 replace the line specified by @amoschu

Midaychi on Apr 28, 2017

@jianwen03 Edit: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py Find the first line in the fix above (line 966) Replace with the second line. (beginning with the “r”)

protella on Apr 28, 2017