The primary failure yesterday of youtube-dl gave this verbose output.
Dave
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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
The YouTube-DL github page was taken down per DMCA request.
Before learning of this I tried to DL a video and use the -x option to
extract the audio. This failed so in ignorance I successfully updated
MacPorts and when I repeated the audio DL, this time it succeeded
resulting in an audio file.
This brings up 2 questions for me:
1. Why did this fail? I had a functioning youtube-dl since last MP
update with all the required bits (ffmpg, Python, etc) and I don’t
update component individually; they were last updated with the last MP
update earlier this year. I haven’t updated MacOS for years. So if
it was functioning earlier this year, why did it fail yesterday?
2. Next time(?) I update MP I presume YouTube-dl won’t update. Will
it be removed? Will it no longer work? Is there a way to keep the port
I have currently functioning?
Feel free to also answer any questions I haven’t asked about the
impact this news will have.
Thanks,
Dave
