ERROR: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data

[vietnguyen07]

Issue / Suggestion

Hi all,
I have an issue with mpsyt:

1. I created my own API key and already set it in mpsyt
2. When I try to search or play result, I have this error message and cannot continue:
   Search results for babyshark [1/25>

ERROR: j8z7UjET1Is: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data
According to my search, it may has some relations to youtube-dl?
What can I do to overcome this?

Your Environment

1. Im running ubuntu 20.04 on Rasp 4-8G
2. mpsyt version:
   mpsyt version : 0.2.8
   notes : released 17 February 2018
   pafy version : 0.5.2 (youtube-dl backend)
   youtube-dl version : 2020.09.14
   Python version : 3.8.6 (default, Sep 25 2020, 09:36:53)
   [GCC 10.2.0]
   Processor : aarch64
   Machine type : aarch64
   Architecture : 64bit, ELF
   Platform : Linux-5.8.0-1010-raspi-aarch64-with-glibc2.32
   sys.stdout.enc : utf-8
   default enc : utf-8
   Config dir : /home/viet/.config/mps-youtube
   env:TERM : xterm-256color
   env:SHELL : /bin/bash
   env:LANG : en_US.UTF-8

[jegornagel]

Same here. I can't move anywhere after this error.

[darkhz]

You'll have to delete the cache file first, its usually located in
/home/<user>/.config/mps-youtube/cache_py_x.x.x

I've faced this problem multiple times before, deleting the cache always works.

[amacgregor]

I'm facing this as well delete the cache did nothing

[kieracarman]

I'm also having this issue, api_key set, deleted cache and still not working.

[samkellerhals]

I am also having the same issue, set new API key and deleted cache also not able to extract video data.

However here is a temporary workaround:

• Search for songs you want to listen to using mpsyt by doing /song name
• Copy youtube video URL to clipboard using x <song_number> (you need to have installed pyperclip)
• In another terminal window play the music using mpv <youtube_url> --no-video

[windowswithoutborders]

+1 right here on this issue on macOS 11.1. Followed the instructions for deleting pycache and setting the new api and getting unable to extract video data. I just heard about this program too and it would be my preferred way of listening to music off youtube if only it would work :(.

[Ja-sonYun]

I fixed this issue with removing mps-youtube installed using brew and reinstall with pip.
I'm using MacOS 11.1.

[cloudytheconqueror]

I fixed the issue by uninstalling and reinstalling a newer version of youtube-dl.

I think simply upgrading it will work: pip install youtube-dl --upgrade

[jav-12]

Same error here. @cloudytheconqueror do we need to install youtube-dl as well to work with mpsyt ?

[sfolje0]

Maybe related to ytdl-org/youtube-dl#26152?

[lillian-alicia]

I think i found a possible fix. I updated youtube-dl pip3 install youtube-dl --upgrade This seemed to fix it after reloading mps.

[sfolje0]

I think i found a possible fix. I updated youtube-dl pip3 install youtube-dl --upgrade This seemed to fix it after reloading mps.

Yes, so I suspect. While the fix already mentioned in previous comments.

[kilianso]

I'm still having this issue on MacOS 10.15.7

I tried to uninstall mps-youtube using brew and reinstalled it using pip3 install mps-youtube.
After that the terminal shows: mpsyt: command not found - so i tried to set the PATH variable and still no luck.

So i reinstalled it using brew again and whenever i search something i see the error:
Youtube said: Unable to extract video data.

I tried it with mpv and Mplayer, no difference and i set my own YT API Key.

Any idea?

[ir1979]

Install youtube-dl using pip3 install youtube-dl and add it to your PATH. Check where is the package you are running.

[mastersaints888]

Solved

• uninstall youtube-dl
• reinstall youtube-dl with command
  sudo snap install youtube-dl # version 2021.06.06+git7fb9564
• enjoy

[mk8486]

try to remove and then reinstall with wget and then upgrade with this commands

sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

sudo -H pip install --upgrade youtube-dl

[shafi-sfdc]

Above suggestion from @mk8486 worked for me

[taichuai]

you can use yt-dlp replace youtube-dl, ex:
yt-dlp -f ‘bv[ext=mp4]+ba[ext=m4a]’ –embed-metadata –merge-output-format mp4 [https://youtu.be/sKrT6mBrosc](https://link.zhihu.com/?target=https%3A//youtu.be/sKrT6mBrosc)