Youtube_dl : ERROR : YouTube said: Unable to extract video data
Updating youtube-dl helped me. Depending on the way you installed it, here are the commands:
youtube-dl --update
(self-update)pip install -U youtube-dl
(via python)brew upgrade youtube-dl
(macOS + homebrew)choco upgrade youtube-dl
(Windows + Chocolatey)
For ubuntu users:
sudo apt purge youtube-dl sudo pip3 install youtube-dl
I had the same error on Ubuntu 20.04.I solved it by updating youtube-dl by downloading a .deb from:https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/youtube-dl/download
Though you can also get the update on youtube-dl's official site.