youtube-dl: [YouTube] Unable to extract video data
Checklist
- I’m reporting a broken site support
- I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dl version 2019.09.28
- 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 issues including closed ones
Verbose log
youtube-dl -v --call-home --dump-single-json https://youtu.be/4V3sN0z6kls
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: ['--retries', '10', '--format', 'best', '--max-filesize', '1G', '--no-warnings', '--abort-on-error', '--no-overwrites', '--no-playlist', '--no-mtime', '--no-cache-dir', '--console-title', '--no-post-overwrites', '--embed-thumbnail', '--add-metadata', '--output', '~/public/%(id)s.%(ext)s']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '--call-home', '--dump-single-json', 'https://youtu.be/4V3sN0z6kls']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.09.28
[debug] Python version 3.5.2 (CPython) - Linux-4.4.0-22-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-16.04-xenial
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.15, ffprobe 2.8.15
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Public IP address: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ERROR: 4V3sN0z6kls: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 796, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 530, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1836, in _real_extract
'YouTube said: %s' % unavailable_message, expected=True, video_id=video_id)
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: 4V3sN0z6kls: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data
Description
The error is “ERROR: Unable to extract video data” and and i cannot reproduce it from multiple countries.
Not working for several URLs/IDs like: ERROR: pUZoDgj9iHw: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data ERROR: pUZoDgj9iHw: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data ERROR: JVmty59D3Co: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data ERROR: SoCs8HGurSY: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data ERROR: -LhtcnrZSMs: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data ERROR: fuBG_osuqy8: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data ERROR: 6wB7k9SopIA: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data ERROR: 6wB7k9SopIA: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data ERROR: wKyTjWtx4qc: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data ERROR: t6kpZOYecAc: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data ERROR: uDD5u43EvE4: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data
Could you please help?
Many Thanks
About this issue
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- State: closed
- Created 5 years ago
- Reactions: 3
- Comments: 38
I was able to bypass this for at least one video by passing
--user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)".@dstftw Can this be re-opened? Obviously something going on here.
Maybe it’s time to put some download speed restrictions into youtube-dl? Edit: I’m using trickle for that: https://github.com/mariusae/trickle There’s at least a Debian package. In Windows I used to use Network Limiter. Not sure that’s still a thing.
I am also having this issue
Ubuntu 18.04:
Ubuntu 19.10:
I feel like it’s likely because YouTube is using some kind of machine learning or some other factor to determine what computer you are using. Like I mentioned before when we thought it was a kernel thing because it worked on a different computer in my house that happened to have a different Ubuntu version but not the primary one I use YTDL on.
Waiting like a week seemed to solve it. So I think they are using something fancy and unknown to us to identity users who use YTDL a lot. My issue I think was that I downloaded the last 5 videos from over 100 channels in a multithreaded fashion (16 channels at a time…) every hour… they did not like this bandwidth consumption I think. So now I just do it once a day and have not seen the problem since. Or use a VPN.
EDIT: Also I run the job manually now. Doing that on a strict schedule using cron also seemed to tip them off. Even once a day.
Hey, why changing the user agent doesn’t work?
user@Deskt0p:~/Desktop/USL$ youtube-dl --user-agent “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.117 Safari/537.36” https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcdUt-ezblFANUS3PfNZiTQ/videos [youtube:channel] UCcdUt-ezblFANUS3PfNZiTQ: Downloading channel page [youtube:playlist] UUcdUt-ezblFANUS3PfNZiTQ: Downloading webpage [download] Downloading playlist: Uploads from Un Señor de Logroño [youtube:playlist] playlist Uploads from Un Señor de Logroño: Downloading 94 videos [download] Downloading video 1 of 94 [youtube] B4FUktVJ4Aw: Downloading webpage [youtube] B4FUktVJ4Aw: Downloading video info webpage WARNING: unable to download video info webpage: HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests WARNING: unable to download video info webpage: HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests WARNING: unable to download video info webpage: HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests WARNING: unable to download video info webpage: HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests ERROR: B4FUktVJ4Aw: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data
Why are we talking about kernels? I assume it have zero relation with system kernels and think the issue is related with something like useragent.
Same issue here, can’t get anything anymore after just 2 days of using youtube dl. If anyone knows a fix for this that would be amazing!
I’m having to change my proxies every couple of days because Youtube seems to be detecting this faster and faster now and as a result YouTube-DL is running into the same issue (and utilizing a proxy seems to be the only way to work around this)