"token" parameter not in video info for unknown reason

[jedahan]

* Impact
The script stopped working due to changes on the website

* Test case
$ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTxFcSMK_Jg

-> it should download the video

* Regression potential
The script was not working at all so it shouldn't create new problem, just check it downloads videos without error

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I am not able to download any videos from youtube on 18.04. This is the error I have.

 ▲ ~ youtube-dl --version
2018.03.14

 △ ~ youtube-dl 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=Gd_ySi7mjeE' --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd_ySi7mjeE', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.03.14
[debug] Python version 3.6.7 (CPython) - Linux-4.15.0-50-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-18.04-bionic
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, ffprobe 3.4.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, phantomjs 2.1.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Gd_ySi7mjeE: Downloading webpage
[youtube] Gd_ySi7mjeE: Downloading video info webpage
ERROR: Gd_ySi7mjeE: "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: Gd_ySi7mjeE: "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.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, it was fixed in that version
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/youtube-dl/2019.01.17-1

The fix is going to be SRUed to disco and bionic

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello jedahan, or anyone else affected,

Accepted youtube-dl into disco-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/youtube-dl/2019.01.17-1.1~ubuntu19.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-disco to verification-done-disco. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-disco. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello jedahan, or anyone else affected,

Accepted youtube-dl into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/youtube-dl/2018.03.14-1ubuntu18.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

disco:
youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTxFcSMK_Jg
[youtube] uTxFcSMK_Jg: Downloading webpage
[youtube] uTxFcSMK_Jg: Downloading video info webpage
ERROR: uTxFcSMK_Jg: "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.

apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done

The following packages will be upgraded:
  youtube-dl
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 976 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco-proposed/universe amd64 youtube-dl all 2019.01.17-1.1~ubuntu19.04.1 [976 kB]
youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTxFcSMK_Jg
[youtube] uTxFcSMK_Jg: Downloading webpage
[youtube] uTxFcSMK_Jg: Downloading video info webpage
WARNING: unable to extract channel id; 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.
[download] Destination: Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo Review - GNOME 3.32, Desktop icons, and more-uTxFcSMK_Jg.mp4
[download] 100% of 30.29MiB in 00:02

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

bionic:
youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTxFcSMK_Jg
WARNING: Assuming --restrict-filenames since file system encoding cannot encode all characters. Set the LC_ALL environment variable to fix this.
[youtube] uTxFcSMK_Jg: Downloading webpage
[youtube] uTxFcSMK_Jg: Downloading video info webpage
ERROR: uTxFcSMK_Jg: "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.

apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  youtube-dl
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 931 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-proposed/universe amd64 youtube-dl all 2018.03.14-1ubuntu18.04.1 [931 kB]
Fetched 931 kB in 0s (2772 kB/s)
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
(Reading database ... 11171 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../youtube-dl_2018.03.14-1ubuntu18.04.1_all.deb ...
Unpacking youtube-dl (2018.03.14-1ubuntu18.04.1) over (2018.03.14-1) ...
Setting up youtube-dl (2018.03.14-1ubuntu18.04.1) ...
youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTxFcSMK_Jg
WARNING: Assuming --restrict-filenames since file system encoding cannot encode all characters. Set the LC_ALL environment variable to fix this.
[youtube] uTxFcSMK_Jg: Downloading webpage
[youtube] uTxFcSMK_Jg: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] uTxFcSMK_Jg: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: Ubuntu_19.04_Disco_Dingo_Review_-_GNOME_3.32_Desktop_icons_and_more-uTxFcSMK_Jg.mp4
[download] 100% of 30.29MiB in 00:07

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package youtube-dl - 2019.01.17-1.1~ubuntu19.04.1

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youtube-dl (2019.01.17-1.1~ubuntu19.04.1) disco; urgency=medium

  * Upload the Debian SRU to adapt to youtube website changes to disco,
    (lp: #1831778)

  [ Salvatore Bonaccorso ]
  * Fix extraction from youtube. (Closes: #927862)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Thu, 27 Jun 2019 13:08:49 +0200

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for youtube-dl has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package youtube-dl - 2018.03.14-1ubuntu18.04.1

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youtube-dl (2018.03.14-1ubuntu18.04.1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/youtube-Fix-extraction.patch:
    - backport upstream patch to adapt to the website changes
      (lp: #1831778)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Thu, 27 Jun 2019 15:37:07 +0200