found 987226 2021.02.10-2 thanks Andreas Tille dixit:
>Could you please give some example to reproduce the bug? When asking This is… indeed tricky… I tried a couple URLs but they work; I don’t have a viewing history though. The example from Mike’s bug still fails, though: tglase@tglase-nb:/tmp $ youtube-dl -f 18 OLAK5uy_m3-t4xLGBOHujynldlI3w-3Qp0WU62EAo [youtube:tab] OLAK5uy_m3-t4xLGBOHujynldlI3w-3Qp0WU62EAo: Downloading webpage ERROR: Unable to extract yt initial data; 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. 1|tglase@tglase-nb:/tmp $ Youtube-dl -f 18 OLAK5uy_m3-t4xLGBOHujynldlI3w-3Qp0WU62EAo [youtube:tab] OLAK5uy_m3-t4xLGBOHujynldlI3w-3Qp0WU62EAo: Downloading webpage [download] Downloading playlist: New Song [youtube:tab] playlist New Song: Downloading 11 videos [download] Downloading video 1 of 11 [youtube] P8kTNCUzC1g: Downloading webpage [youtube] P8kTNCUzC1g: Downloading player 7acefd5d ^C ERROR: Interrupted by user Second one (Youtube-dl with capital Y) is the upstream binary, patched to have python3 in the shebang, shown to prove they fixed it later on. I aborted it because I’m not interested in downloading that actually ☺ bye, //mirabilos -- Gestern Nacht ist mein IRC-Netzwerk explodiert. Ich hatte nicht damit gerechnet, darum bin ich blutverschmiert… wer konnte ahnen, daß SIE so reagier’n… gestern Nacht ist mein IRC-Netzwerk explodiert~~~ (as of 2021-06-15 The MirOS Project temporarily reconvenes on OFTC)
