[Discuss] youtube-dl no longer working in Ubuntu

Murray Strome wmstrome at shaw.ca
Tue May 28 19:35:34 PDT 2019


The Youtube video downloader youtube-dl seems to have quit working.  I 
get the same error when I try to use it from the bash command in Windows 
but it still does work using brew on a Mac. Any ideas as to what has 
happened and/or how to fix it? Nothing I have found using Google has worked.

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Enn3BHE3v4s: "token" parameter not in video info for unknown reason; 
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.
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 
785, in extract_info
     ie_result = ie.extract(url)
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", 
line 440, in extract
     ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
   File 
"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 
1624, in _real_extract
     video_id=video_id)
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Enn3BHE3v4s: "token" parameter not in 
video info for unknown reason; 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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