Downloading from a Youtube URL stopped working

[4nanook]

Checklist

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

Verbose log

youtube-dl -v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWoQW-b6Ph8
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWoQW-b6Ph8']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
[debug] Python version 3.10.7 (CPython) - Linux-6.1.12-x86_64-with-glibc2.36
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 5.1.1, ffprobe 5.1.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] MWoQW-b6Ph8: 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)
youtube_dl.utils.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

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As of today, I can not download ANY youtube URL, get an error message:
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.

[MattiSG]

After a first pass of research, this seems to be a duplicate of #31530, which has a fix in #31675. The blocking point seems to be CI pipeline delivery rather than the bugfix itself.

@4nanook could you please confirm and, if that is the case, close this issue?

Other people passing by: please prefer emoji reactions (that don't send notifications) over comments unless you add specific information. Let's all do our part in not drowning open-source maintainers 🙂

[dirkf]

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

That was supposed to be

... a first pass of research ...

as requested (to put it politely) in #30839.