ERROR: Unable to extract uploader id

[Ken-n]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support issue
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
• I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• I've searched the bugtracker for similar bug reports including closed ones
• I've read bugs section in FAQ

Verbose log

Kens-MacBook-Pro:~ ken$ youtube-dl --proxy 127.0.0.1:7890 -F --verbose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyQI6tGHxBU
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--proxy', u'127.0.0.1:7890', u'-F', u'--verbose', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyQI6tGHxBU']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
[debug] Python version 2.7.18 (CPython) - Darwin-18.7.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.3.1, ffprobe 4.3.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {u'http': u'127.0.0.1:7890', u'https': u'127.0.0.1:7890'}
[youtube] KyQI6tGHxBU: 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; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 815, in wrapper
return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 836, in __extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 534, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/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/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1012, in _search_regex
raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract uploader id; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

Description

MacOS 10.14.6 just happened that unable to download any YouTube sources.

[dirkf]

[x] I've searched the bugtracker for similar bug reports including closed ones

But apparently not. Duplicate of #31530.

[Ken-n]

[x] I've searched the bugtracker for similar bug reports including closed ones

But apparently not. Duplicate of #31530.

Not for MacOS, Only does Windows have a workaround to fix it.
#31530 (comment)

[dirkf]

The problem is fixed in the same way for all supported OS. MacOS is a sort of Unix as far as yt-dl is concerned. If you don't have a Python installation, you must be running a self-extracting executable archive that will need to be patched; or install Python. Or install yt-dlp. See #31535, linked from the master issue.