The latest version of youtube-dl cannot be used due to an error

[yausername]

The latest version of youtube-dl cannot be used due to an error

[CookieJarApps]

same issue here, I can't use youtubedl-android because of this. but I didn't understand @CookieJarApps 's fix, where can I find the lazy_extractors file and how can I use this in my android app? I'm kind of a beginner at android stuff :|
or shall I just wait for a fix?

Basically, the version of youtube-dl bundled into youtubedl-android no longer works with YouTube, and if you update the youtube-dl version in the library, it updates to the broken version in this repo, which is missing a function and import in the lazy_extractors.py file.

The lazy_extractors.py file is generated by this project and added to a zip with the rest of the youtube-dl files as releases ('youtube_dl.zip' in releases) in this repo every time there's an update in the youtube-dl repo. When the youtubedl-android library updates, this zip file is what it downloads.

I took the latest version of the file from this repo, and added the missing code to the lazy_extractors.py. The zip file is here: https://github.com/CookieJarApps/VideoDL/blob/master/app/src/main/res/raw/youtube_dl.zip

Putting it into the /res/raw/ folder of your youtubedl-android project will override the built-in version in the library and (as long as you don't let the user update youtube-dl within the app) will act as a temporary fix until either youtube-dl or the author of this repo fixes the issue.

[CookieJarApps]

Importing compat_parse_qs from compat.py and replacing parse_qs with compat_parse_qs in the lazy_extractors file fixes the issue and downloads videos correctly. It seems to have been caused by this commit at youtube_dl. The suitable function has been changed to require parse_qs, which is defined elsewhere in the file. The suitable function is added to the lazy_extractors file by the script in release.sh, but not the parse_qs function.

[mohad12211]

same issue here, I can't use youtubedl-android because of this. but I didn't understand @CookieJarApps 's fix, where can I find the lazy_extractors file and how can I use this in my android app? I'm kind of a beginner at android stuff :|
or shall I just wait for a fix?

[xibr]

defined elsewhere in the file. The suitable function is added to the lazy_extractors file by the script in release.sh, but not the parse_qs function.

Yes that's right.

same issue here, I can't use youtubedl-android because of this. but I didn't understand @CookieJarApps 's fix, where can I find the lazy_extractors file and how can I use this in my android app? I'm kind of a beginner at android stuff :|
or shall I just wait for a fix?

Like @CookieJarApps he said in the comment above.

For me I've built youtube-dl manually and it works for me without any problem, also check my fork https://github.com/xibr/youtubedl-lazy/releases/tag/2021.04.17 is built without lazy_extractors.py file and it works.

[xibr]

Anyone can make a fork and modify some lines in youtubedl-lazy and youtubedl-android