ERROR: kN09y8oiTrA: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data

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Issue / Suggestion

The following message appears when performing a search

ERROR: kN09y8oiTrA: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data

I already cleared the cache, and reinstalled/upgraded youtube-dl via pip3

Your Environment

Running Mac OS Big Sur version 11.5.2 (20G95)

mpsyt version      : 0.2.8
   notes           : released 17 February 2018
pafy version       : 0.5.5 (youtube-dl backend)
youtube-dl version : 2020.05.03
Python version     : 3.9.7 (default, Sep  3 2021, 12:37:55) 
[Clang 12.0.5 (clang-1205.0.22.9)]
Processor          : i386
Machine type       : x86_64
Architecture       : 64bit, 
Platform           : macOS-11.5.2-x86_64-i386-64bit
sys.stdout.enc     : utf-8
default enc        : utf-8
Config dir         :  ~/.config/mps-youtube
env:TERM           : xterm-256color
env:SHELL          : /bin/bash
env:LANG           : fr_CH.UTF-8

[iamtalhaasghar]

looks like #1179. You need to update your youtube-dl package.

[iamtalhaasghar]

closed in favor of #1136