Source: youtube-dl Version: 2019.01.16-1 Tags: upstream fixed-upstream Forwarded: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/18873
Looks like youtube-dl does not handle some videos from youtube: $ youtube-dl --verbose https://youtu.be/v_B3qkp4nO4 [debug] System config: [] [debug] User config: [] [debug] Custom config: [] [debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'https://youtu.be/v_B3qkp4nO4'] [debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8 [debug] youtube-dl version 2019.01.16 [debug] Python version 3.5.3 (CPython) - Linux-4.18.0-0.bpo.1-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-9.6 [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.2.12-1, ffprobe 3.2.12-1, phantomjs 2.1.1, rtmpdump 2.4 [debug] Proxy map: {} [youtube] v_B3qkp4nO4: Downloading webpage [youtube] v_B3qkp4nO4: Downloading video info webpage [youtube] {18} signature length 42.44, html5 player vfl-jbnrr [youtube] v_B3qkp4nO4: Downloading player https://www.youtube.com/yts/jsbin/player_ias-vfl-jbnrr/en_US/base.js ERROR: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1232, in _decrypt_signature video_id, player_url, s File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1140, in _extract_signature_function res = self._parse_sig_js(code) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1207, in _parse_sig_js initial_function = jsi.extract_function(funcname) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/jsinterp.py", line 245, in extract_function raise ExtractorError('Could not find JS function %r' % funcname) youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Could not find JS function 'encodeURIComponent'; 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. (caused by ExtractorError("Could not find JS function 'encodeURIComponent'; 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.",)); 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/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1232, in _decrypt_signature video_id, player_url, s File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1140, in _extract_signature_function res = self._parse_sig_js(code) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1207, in _parse_sig_js initial_function = jsi.extract_function(funcname) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/jsinterp.py", line 245, in extract_function raise ExtractorError('Could not find JS function %r' % funcname)
