YouTube-DL is no more

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 18, 2020, at 13:32, DaveC wrote:

> The primary failure yesterday of youtube-dl gave this verbose output.
> 
> Dave
> - - -
> Daves-Mac-mini:~ davec$ youtube-dl -v -x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXawa90YU2s
> [debug] System config: []
> [debug] User config: ['--output', '~/Downloads/youtube-dl/%(title)s.%(ext)s']
> [debug] Custom config: []
> [debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '-x', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXawa90YU2s']
> [debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
> [debug] youtube-dl version 2020.05.08
> [debug] Python version 3.6.10 (CPython) - Darwin-16.7.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
> [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.4, ffprobe 4.2.4
> [debug] Proxy map: {}
> [youtube] RXawa90YU2s: Downloading webpage
> ERROR: RXawa90YU2s: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/opt/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 797, in extract_info
>    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
>  File "/opt/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 530, in extract
>    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
>  File "/opt/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1820, in _real_extract
>    'YouTube said: %s' % unavailable_message, expected=True, video_id=video_id)
> youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: RXawa90YU2s: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data

Not surprising, since your youtube-dl version was 7 months old (2020.05.08). An update 5 months ago was needed to restore the ability to extract from YouTube:

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/60915