youtube-dl crashed with UnboundLocalError in _real_extract(): local variable 'video_id' referenced before assignment

[Daniel Holbach]

Looks like it's fixed upstream already: http://youtube-dl.org/downloads/2013.01.13/youtube-dl

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/__main__.py", line 7, in <module>
    __init__.main()
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/__init__.py", line 536, in main
    _real_main()
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/__init__.py", line 520, in _real_main
    retcode = fd.download(all_urls)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/FileDownloader.py", line 475, in download
    videos = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/InfoExtractors.py", line 80, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/InfoExtractors.py", line 2541, in _real_extract
    mediaURL = mediaURL % (video_id, stream_token)
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'video_id' referenced before assignment

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: youtube-dl 2012.09.27+dfsg1-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-0.4-generic 3.8.0-rc3
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-0-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 2f383a1679e8525d7196eb2518a1921f
CheckboxSystem: bb422ca46d02494cdbc459927a98bc2f
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Fri Jan 18 12:34:09 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/youtube-dl
InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-08-19 (518 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110817)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: python /usr/bin/youtube-dl -t https://soundcloud.com/isaacmaya/tc-tap-ho-isaac-maya-rmx
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/youtube-dl', '-t', 'https://soundcloud.com/isaacmaya/tc-tap-ho-isaac-maya-rmx']
SourcePackage: youtube-dl
Title: youtube-dl crashed with UnboundLocalError in _real_extract(): local variable 'video_id' referenced before assignment
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-01-17 (1 days ago)
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[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Reproduced the bug on current precise.

Guessing you've moved off oneiric and so don't need the fix there.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Hum, this was on raring. I upgraded from oneiric all the way to raring, but I'm not sure that's relevant in the bug here.

[Benjamin Kerensa (bkerensa)]

I'm bugging Debian maintainer to see if they can sync the fixed version to experimental so we can merge.

[Jackson Doak (noskcaj)]

Shouldn't this be marked as "Fix released" since saucy has version 2013.07.10-1

[Jackson Doak (noskcaj)]

The bug has a workaround too. run "sudo youtube-dl -U" then restart youtube-dl

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

The Precise Pangolin has reached end of life, so this bug will not be fixed for that release