[FIXED IN 0.27.2][YouTube] HTTP error 403 when starting videos

[Spok1]

Please also see About YouTube playback errors - YouTube changed some things to get working streams

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Affected version

0.27.0

Steps to reproduce the bug

Open the video and try to play it.

Expected behavior

For the videos to play.

Actual behavior

The video doesn't want to play. An error code appears in the notification.

Screenshots/Screen recordings

No response

Logs

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_IO_BAD_HTTP_STATUS] occurred while playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoLa-J8YpxU
• Content Country: RU
• Content Language: ru-RU
• App Language: ru_RU
• Service: YouTube
• Version: 0.27.0
• OS: Linux Android 7.0 - 24

Crash log

com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: Source error
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleIoException(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:644)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:616)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:98)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:159)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:61)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.HttpDataSource$InvalidResponseCodeException: Response code: 403
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.open(YoutubeHttpDataSource.java:422)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultDataSource.open(DefaultDataSource.java:263)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.TeeDataSource.open(TeeDataSource.java:52)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.openNextSource(CacheDataSource.java:796)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.open(CacheDataSource.java:609)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.StatsDataSource.open(StatsDataSource.java:84)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.chunk.InitializationChunk.load(InitializationChunk.java:99)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(Loader.java:412)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1133)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:607)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:761)

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Affected Android/Custom ROM version

Android 7

Affected device model

Asus z500m

Additional information

No response

[bit-garden]

It should be mentioned that yt-dlp yesterday started throwing 403 errors.

yt-dlp/yt-dlp#10397

This sounds like YouTube has made changes that are breaking 3rd party access.

[ACR-Jeff]

Youtube is messing with 3rd party apps again. It's happening on other apps as well.

[joshuabengal]

Same here. No videos will play, no channel pages will load.

Worth noting that on my PC, PotPlayer can still play videos just fine. Last time this happened (NewPipe failed to play a video but PotPlayer plays it), it was a result of YouTube doing A/B testing targeting different platforms.

[Player005]

Same issue here. First started just occasionally occurring on some videos, now no videos play at all.
Changing DNS to cloudflare or quad9 doesn't change anything, same goes with deleting metadata cache.

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_IO_BAD_HTTP_STATUS] occurred while playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgdSJdeGF_0
• Content Country: DE
• Content Language: de-DE
• App Language: de_DE
• Service: YouTube
• Version: 0.27.0
• OS: Linux Android 13 - 33

Crash log

com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: Source error
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleIoException(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:644)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:616)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:201)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:288)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.HttpDataSource$InvalidResponseCodeException: Response code: 403
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.open(YoutubeHttpDataSource.java:422)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultDataSource.open(DefaultDataSource.java:263)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.openNextSource(CacheDataSource.java:796)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.open(CacheDataSource.java:609)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.StatsDataSource.open(StatsDataSource.java:84)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.chunk.InitializationChunk.load(InitializationChunk.java:99)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(Loader.java:412)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1137)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:637)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1012)

[gsture]

Same here. No videos will play, no channel pages will load.

Worth noting that on my PC, PotPlayer can still play videos just fine. Last time this happened (NewPipe failed to play a video but PotPlayer plays it), it was a result of YouTube doing A/B testing targeting different platforms.

Grayjay android app also still works. That's what I am using in the meantime.

[ACR-Jeff]

The only thing I can get working is other apps that utilize the invidious instances, Everything else just fails

[XiangRongLin]

The guys over at youtube-dl have an approach. Details are still a bit sparse, but youtube changed the javascript code snippet that we parse out of the whole file in order to bypass the throttling. I don't have a working setup anymore for newpipe + extractor anymore so I will need some time if no one else has time
ytdl-org/youtube-dl#32842 (comment)
ytdl-org/youtube-dl#32842 (comment)

The regexes here probably need to be adjusted and the String.prototype.split.call(a, "") needs to be replaced with a.split("") since rhino does not support that according to the user they use a different JS runtime

[XiangRongLin]

Fix is in the works. for now you can use the debug APK from here TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#1191

[Stypox]

Fixed by TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#1191. A hotfix release is in the making.

[opusforlife2]

So, Youtube changed something again and this issue resurfaced. It's already fixed in the code, so just wait a little and it'll be out in a new version.

[Stypox]

This is fixed again by 0.27.2