Node-ytdl-core: Unable to extract video Title .

[adamwoo2444]

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[adamwoo2444]

Youtube updated its code!!!! thats why we are not able to extract title please look into this matter ASAP.

[cloudrac3r]

I'm also having problems with this.

[vysiondev]

youtube-dl likely updated the way it extracts video data. getInfo() and getBasicInfo() don't return the correct parameters. However, downloading videos still seems to work fine.

If you are testing an application/bot right now for anyone reading this, videos will download/stream fine, but you will not be able to fetch some video information.

As a reference, this is what was returned after testing getInfo() a few minutes ago.
https://runkit.com/illuminati4life/5d3f9c789c2c2e001b245873

[cloudrac3r]

Here is how Invidious, another YouTube video extractor, dealt with this change: https://github.com/omarroth/invidious/commit/ff5d79e3ee1d295e97e589e39ca09bd0a880c99f

Hopefully this can assist somebody in figuring out what to change.

[fent]

As a reference, this is what was returned after testing getInfo() a few minutes ago.
https://runkit.com/illuminati4life/5d3f9c789c2c2e001b245873

Here is how Invidious, another YouTube video extractor, dealt with this change: omarroth/invidious@ff5d79e

thanks! these were helpful. will push a fix soon.