Bug 1648103

Summary:	Not able to download video from Youtube: youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Couret Charles-Antoine <renault>
Component:	youtube-dl	Assignee:	Till Maas <opensource>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	29	CC:	mcepl, opensource, rafalzaq, thib, tim
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Fixed In Version:	youtube-dl-2018.11.07-1.fc29 youtube-dl-2018.11.07-1.fc28 youtube-dl-2018.11.07-1.fc27 youtube-dl-2018.11.07-1.el7 youtube-dl-2018.11.07-1.el6	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Description Couret Charles-Antoine 2018-11-08 20:35:53 UTC

Description of problem:

Try to download any video from Youtube fails with following error:
[Renault@Abby dwhelper]$ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io0fBr1XBUA
[youtube] Io0fBr1XBUA: Downloading webpage
[youtube] Io0fBr1XBUA: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] Io0fBr1XBUA: Downloading js player vfls4aurX
ERROR: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1221, in _decrypt_signature
    video_id, player_url, s
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1130, in _extract_signature_function
    res = self._parse_sig_js(code)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1193, in _parse_sig_js
    jscode, 'Initial JS player signature function name', group='sig')
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 977, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract Initial JS player signature function name; 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.
 (caused by RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract \x1b[0;34mInitial JS player signature function name\x1b[0m; 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.')); 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.


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Additional info:

Bug upstream : https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/18091
Fix available with upstream release 2018.11.07

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2018-11-10 18:25:41 UTC

youtube-dl-2018.11.07-1.fc29 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 29. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-e6b1ce5158

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2018-11-10 18:25:49 UTC

youtube-dl-2018.11.07-1.fc28 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 28. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-4804c3fb5e

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2018-11-10 18:25:57 UTC

youtube-dl-2018.11.07-1.el7 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 7. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2018-1145adfca5

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2018-11-10 18:26:05 UTC

youtube-dl-2018.11.07-1.fc27 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 27. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-214db75f8b

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2018-11-10 18:26:12 UTC

youtube-dl-2018.11.07-1.el6 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 6. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2018-48b5153e82

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2018-11-11 04:22:22 UTC

youtube-dl-2018.11.07-1.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-214db75f8b

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2018-11-11 04:56:58 UTC

youtube-dl-2018.11.07-1.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2018-1145adfca5

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2018-11-11 04:58:17 UTC

youtube-dl-2018.11.07-1.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-4804c3fb5e

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2018-11-11 05:27:56 UTC

youtube-dl-2018.11.07-1.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2018-48b5153e82

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2018-11-11 05:33:46 UTC

youtube-dl-2018.11.07-1.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-e6b1ce5158

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2018-11-12 02:14:47 UTC

youtube-dl-2018.11.07-1.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2018-11-12 05:28:24 UTC

youtube-dl-2018.11.07-1.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2018-11-23 04:34:27 UTC

youtube-dl-2018.11.07-1.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 14 Fedora Update System 2018-12-16 00:38:07 UTC

youtube-dl-2018.11.07-1.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 15 Fedora Update System 2018-12-16 04:26:54 UTC

youtube-dl-2018.11.07-1.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.