2 description: Report a bug unrelated to any particular site or extractor
7 label: DO NOT REMOVE OR SKIP THE ISSUE TEMPLATE
8 description: Fill all fields even if you think it is irrelevant for the issue
10 - label: I understand that I will be **blocked** if I *intentionally* remove or skip any mandatory\* field
17 Carefully read and work through this check list in order to prevent the most common mistakes and misuse of yt-dlp:
19 - label: I'm reporting a bug unrelated to a specific site
21 - label: I've verified that I have **updated yt-dlp to nightly or master** ([update instructions](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#update-channels))
23 - label: I've checked that all provided URLs are playable in a browser with the same IP and same login details
25 - label: I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are [properly quoted or escaped](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/FAQ#video-url-contains-an-ampersand--and-im-getting-some-strange-output-1-2839-or-v-is-not-recognized-as-an-internal-or-external-command)
27 - label: I've searched [known issues](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/3766) and the [bugtracker](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q=) for similar issues **including closed ones**. DO NOT post duplicates
29 - label: I've read the [guidelines for opening an issue](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#opening-an-issue)
34 label: Provide a description that is worded well enough to be understood
35 description: See [is-the-description-of-the-issue-itself-sufficient](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#is-the-description-of-the-issue-itself-sufficient)
36 placeholder: Provide any additional information, any suggested solutions, and as much context and examples as possible
42 label: Provide verbose output that clearly demonstrates the problem
44 - label: Run **your** yt-dlp command with **-vU** flag added (`yt-dlp -vU <your command line>`)
46 - label: "If using API, add `'verbose': True` to `YoutubeDL` params instead"
48 - label: Copy the WHOLE output (starting with `[debug] Command-line config`) and insert it below
53 label: Complete Verbose Output
55 It should start like this:
57 [debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc']
58 [debug] Encodings: locale cp65001, fs utf-8, pref cp65001, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
59 [debug] yt-dlp version nightly@... from yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds [1a176d874] (win_exe)
60 [debug] Python 3.10.11 (CPython AMD64 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.20348-SP0 (OpenSSL 1.1.1t 7 Feb 2023)
61 [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 7.0.2 (setts), ffprobe 7.0.2
62 [debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.21.0, brotli-1.1.0, certifi-2024.08.30, curl_cffi-0.5.10, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.32.3, sqlite3-3.40.1, urllib3-2.2.3, websockets-13.1
64 [debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets, curl_cffi
65 [debug] Loaded 1838 extractors
66 [debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest
67 Latest version: nightly@... from yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds
68 yt-dlp is up to date (nightly@... from yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds)
69 [youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc
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