Package: youtube-dl Version: 2021.06.06 It does not happen every time. Usually it works just fine but some videos, this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz77_apK7Xs paticularly causes this error.
I use /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube-dl -f 22 --recode-video mp4 --write-info-json --restrict-filenames --write-all-thumbnails https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz77_apK7Xs > stdout.txt 2> stderr.txt stdout.txt contains: [youtube] Pz77_apK7Xs: Downloading webpage [youtube] Pz77_apK7Xs: Refetching age-gated info webpage stderr.txt contains: WARNING: unable to download video info webpage: HTTP Error 404: Not Found Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 174, 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/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube-dl/__main__.py", line 19, in <module> File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 475, in main File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 465, in _real_main File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2069, in download File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 808, in extract_info File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 815, in wrapper File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 836, in __extract_info File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 534, in extract File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1503, in _real_extract File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2644, in compat_parse_qs File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2614, in _parse_qsl AttributeError: 'bool' object has no attribute 'split' # uname -a Linux pcname 4.9.0-9-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.168-1+deb9u3 (2019-06-16) x86_64 GNU/Linux # ls -l /lib/*/libc.so.6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Feb 6 2019 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.24.so # apt show libc6 | grep ^Version WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts. Version: 2.24-11+deb9u4 # reportbug --template -T none -s none -S normal -b --list-cc none -q youtube-dl Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 44, in <module> from reportbug import utils ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'reportbug'
