Why has youtube-dl started giving this error message - YouTube said: Unable to extract video data

Question

I use to download EAC videos for testing using this command line -

youtube-dl -f bestvideo[ext=mp4] --user-agent '' <youtube_url>

But now when I am running it, it gives an error message saying -

YouTube said: Unable to extract video data

Please help!

Answer 1

Your question should already be answered in this thread: Youtube_dl : ERROR : YouTube said: Unable to extract video data

Basicaly use the same user agent and cookie as your browser.

Best regards

Answer 2

I ran this command to upgrade my youtube-dl

brew upgrade youtube-dl

After upgrading, the problems seems to have gone away. But I will check this extensively by checking it on multiple videos and see if it got resolved completely or only for few videos