Warning: "unable to extract player URL", error "No video formats found"

[JackX1980]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support issue
• [X ] I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
• I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• I've searched the bugtracker for similar bug reports including closed ones
• I've read bugs section in FAQ

Verbose log

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xx0d3R2LoU', '-F', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2023.09.25 [00ef748cc] (single file build)
[debug] ** This version was built from the latest master code at https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl.
[debug] ** For support, visit the main site.
[debug] Python 3.4.4 (CPython AMD64 32bit) - Windows-10-10.0.22621 - OpenSSL 1.0.2d 9 Jul 2015
[debug] exe versions: avconv 11.3, avprobe 11.3, ffmpeg N-112327-g9078dc0c52-20231005, ffprobe N-112327-g9078dc0c52-20231005
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] 6xx0d3R2LoU: Downloading webpage
[youtube] 6xx0d3R2LoU: Downloading API JSON
WARNING: unable to extract player URL; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
WARNING: unable to extract player URL; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
WARNING: unable to extract player URL; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
WARNING: unable to extract player URL; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
WARNING: unable to extract player URL; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
WARNING: unable to extract player URL; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
WARNING: unable to extract player URL; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
WARNING: unable to extract player URL; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
WARNING: unable to extract player URL; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
WARNING: unable to extract player URL; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
WARNING: unable to extract player URL; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
WARNING: unable to extract player URL; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
WARNING: unable to extract player URL; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
WARNING: unable to extract player URL; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
WARNING: unable to extract player URL; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
WARNING: unable to extract player URL; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
WARNING: unable to extract player URL; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
WARNING: unable to extract player URL; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
WARNING: unable to extract player URL; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
WARNING: unable to extract player URL; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
WARNING: unable to extract player URL; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
WARNING: unable to extract player URL; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
WARNING: unable to extract player URL; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
ERROR: No video formats found; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\a\ytdl-nightly\ytdl-nightly\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 863, in wrapper
  File "D:\a\ytdl-nightly\ytdl-nightly\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 959, in __extract_info
  File "D:\a\ytdl-nightly\ytdl-nightly\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 565, in extract
  File "D:\a\ytdl-nightly\ytdl-nightly\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 2128, in _real_extract
  File "D:\a\ytdl-nightly\ytdl-nightly\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 1444, in _sort_formats
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: No video formats found; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

Description

I get the above error for every YT-video, even with different parameters...
After updating YTDL to the current daily build, I still get the error.

[dirkf]

See #32499.

[JackX1980]

Hello Dirkf, I followed your reply on Aug 11 in #32499 *YT is now ignoring the ucbc=1 parameter that the extractor adds and redirecting via consent.youtube.com <http://consent.youtube.com>, for some pages. There is a fix but meanwhile try passing cookies from a browser session where you have already gone through the consent check, using the nightly build.* - I've updated to the latest nightly build 2023.09.25 -- I expected that this would contain the *fix* you speak about in your reply above but obviously it doesn't because I still get the error. - So I continued with passing the cookies from the browser session: -- I've cleared all cookies in my browser and consented to the YT-cookies again. -- I passed the cookies from the browser session as below youtube-dl --add-header "Cookie:COOKIE_STRING_EXTRACTED_FROM_BROWSER" " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFfZHkrTw94" but it didn't work. Neither worked replacing the COOKIE_STRING_EXTRACTED_FROM_BROWSER with the actual cookie-content of the header of the very first request which was "watch?v=UFfZHkrTw94". Have I done it correctly/completely? Any further ideas? Thanks a lot for your response. Cheers, Jan pá 6. 10. 2023 v 12:06 odesílatel dirkf ***@***.***> napsal:

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See #32499 <#32499>. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#32583 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/BDCUXSP5RRAWTQ525EMOSATX57JZZAVCNFSM6AAAAAA5VRNQDKVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMYTONJQGMZTEMZTGU> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[dirkf]

Apparently not.

The recommended procedure according to the FAQ is to use a browser extension to save a "Netscape format" cookie file from your recently logged-in browser session and pass the filename using --cookies. Manually adding cookies may not work after #32450.

The patch can be applied, or you could attempt to construct the cookie set by the patch. Or masquerade a non-EU IP address using a VPN.

[JackX1980]

Hi Dirk, thank you for your support. The Netscape format cookie helped. This is a kind of a workaround and I hope it is going to be fixed soon. Cheers, Jan pá 6. 10. 2023 v 16:58 odesílatel dirkf ***@***.***> napsal:

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Apparently not. The recommended procedure according to the FAQ is to use a browser extension to save a "Netscape format" cookie file from your recently logged-in browser session and pass the filename using --cookies. Manually adding cookies may not work after #32450 <#32450>. The patch <#32499 (comment)> can be applied, or you could attempt to construct the cookie set by the patch. Or masquerade a non-EU IP address using a VPN. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#32583 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/BDCUXSPPPPQ7C3TRCSRU7HDX6AMCJAVCNFSM6AAAAAA5VRNQDKVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMYTONJQHAZTEMRZGY> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>