How to

25/06/2023

Fix youtube-dl error Unable to extract uploader id

youtube-dl version 2021.12.17

Error message

>ERROR: Unable to extract uploader id; 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.

Run youtube-dl with the

> --verbose

flag. You should get an output looking something like this:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 814, in wrapper

return func(self, *args, **kwargs)

File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 835, in __extract_info

ie_result = ie.extract(url)

File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 534, in extract

ie_result = self._real_extract(url)

File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1794, in _real_extract

'uploader_id': self._search_regex(r'/(?:channel|user)/([^/?&#]+)', owner_profile_url, 'uploader id') if owner_profile_url else None,

File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1012, in _search_regex

raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)

youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract uploader id; 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.

Find the line ending in "youtube.py".

Use your favourite text editor (vim) and comment out the line referenced (i.e. line 1794).

> sudo vim /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py

> # [corresponding line]

> :wq [to exit]

youtube-dl should work again now.

Back

Main (back)