Hi,

I have been having this error using youtube-dl for a while. Here is what I get:

  $  youtube-dl --verbose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzH7_gGAM3Y
 [debug] System config: ['--prefer-free-formats']
 [debug] User config: []
 [debug] Custom config: []
 [debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 
'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzH7_gGAM3Y']
 [debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
 [debug] youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
 [debug] Python version 3.11.4 (CPython) - 
Linux-6.3.8-200.fc38.x86_64-x86_64-with-glibc2.37
 [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 6.0, ffprobe 6.0
 [debug] Proxy map: {}
 [youtube] SzH7_gGAM3Y: Downloading webpage
 ERROR: Unable to extract uploader 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.
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 814, 
in wrapper
     return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 835, 
in __extract_info
     ie_result = ie.extract(url)
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", 
line 534, in extract
     ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", 
line 1794, in _real_extract
     'uploader_id': self._search_regex(r'/(?:channel|user)/([^/?&#]+)', 
owner_profile_url, 'uploader id') if owner_profile_url else None,
                    
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", 
line 1012, in _search_regex
     raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
 youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract uploader 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.


Strangely, works fine with mpv, which I understand uses youtube-dl.

Any suggestions on the problem?

Many thanks and best wishes,
Ranjan
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