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. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): all from Fedora repositories. Additional info: Bug upstream : https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/18091 Fix available with upstream release 2018.11.07
youtube-dl-2018.11.07-1.fc29 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 29. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-e6b1ce5158
youtube-dl-2018.11.07-1.fc28 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 28. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-4804c3fb5e
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
youtube-dl-2018.11.07-1.fc27 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 27. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-214db75f8b
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.