youtube-dl not working

[errod1]

ERROR: Unable to extract uploader id;

youtube-dl.exe https://youtu.be/zhXvyd8VbOM
[youtube] zhXvyd8VbOM: Downloading webpage
[youtube] zhXvyd8VbOM: Downloading m3u8 information
[youtube] zhXvyd8VbOM: Downloading MPD manifest
ERROR: Unable to extract uploader id; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

i have the last version:

youtube-dl.exe -U
youtube-dl is up-to-date (2021.12.17)

please help!

thanks

[augustsaintfreytag]

If you can, please change the title to what the actual problem is, not just that it’s “not working” so it can be triaged. If I wanted to report it, I would’ve titled it after the error description, something like "Unable to extract uploader id" for YouTube videos.

I also have this issue (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3ooHcaGs_c) and I’ve only just installed the latest version of yt-dlp from master earlier today.

[debug] Command-line config: ['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3ooHcaGs_c', '-F', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, pref UTF-8, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
[debug] yt-dlp version 2023.01.06 [6becd2508] (zip)
[debug] Python 3.10.9 (CPython x86_64 64bit) - macOS-12.6.2-x86_64-i386-64bit (OpenSSL 1.1.1s  1 Nov 2022)
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 5.1.2 (setts), ffprobe 5.1.2, phantomjs 2.1.1
[debug] Optional libraries: sqlite3-2.6.0
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Loaded 1767 extractors
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3ooHcaGs_c
[youtube] s3ooHcaGs_c: Downloading webpage
[youtube] s3ooHcaGs_c: Downloading android player API JSON
[youtube] s3ooHcaGs_c: Downloading MPD manifest
ERROR: [youtube] s3ooHcaGs_c: Unable to extract uploader id; please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using  yt-dlp -U
  File "/usr/local/bin/yt-dlpx/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 693, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/yt-dlpx/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py", line 4123, in _real_extract
    'uploader_id': self._search_regex(r'/(?:channel|user)/([^/?&#]+)', owner_profile_url, 'uploader id') if owner_profile_url else None,
  File "/usr/local/bin/yt-dlpx/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 1241, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)

[Grub4K]

Duplicate of #31530, which was closed by @dirkf (maybe consider reopen?)

[HexadimensionalerAlp]

Same problem, stopped working on windows and linux independently on the same time. Worked 1 time out of around 50 tries.

[augustsaintfreytag]

Can confirm that this was fixed in commits made today for yt-dlp and that the latest version on master is working.

I honestly followed a Google search for the error description here and didn’t notice this is the repo for youtube-dl, not yt-dlp, still hope the information is useful to you over here.