package: youtube-dl version: 2020.09.20-1 $ youtube-dl --verbose "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_TE6fWyBzA" [debug] System config: [] [debug] User config: [] [debug] Custom config: [] [debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_TE6fWyBzA'] [debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8 [debug] youtube-dl version 2020.09.20 [debug] Python version 3.8.6 (CPython) - Linux-5.7.0-3-amd64-x86_64-with-glibc2.29 [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.3.1-5, ffprobe 4.3.1-5, phantomjs 2.1.1, rtmpdump 2.4 [debug] Proxy map: {} [youtube] V_TE6fWyBzA: Downloading webpage ERROR: V_TE6fWyBzA: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 797, in extract_info ie_result = ie.extract(url) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 532, in extract ie_result = self._real_extract(url) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1909, in _real_extract raise ExtractorError( youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: V_TE6fWyBzA: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data This problem is solved in upstream version 2020.11.01.1.