/videoplayback 403 - Piped not playing videos

[probatschool2]

Official Instance

• The bug is reproducible on the official hosted instance, or is API-related.

Describe the bug

For some reason the videos dont load and I cant watch piped. I primarily use piped cause youtube is blocked and this piped link is just about one of the only ones not blocked. If someone can please help me with this it would be much appriciated!

To Reproduce

i honestly dont know how to reproduce this bug

Expected behavior

I expected to be able to watch the youtube videos I want to.

Logs/Errors

No response

Browser, and OS with Version.

I use google and i think I may use chrome os beacuse Im on my school chrome book and use it.

Additional context

No response

[alejandro-alzate]

same issue here; mine is reproducible on the lastest libretube client of fdroid with the instance piped.yt my suspicious is that instances are being bot-blocked correct me if the case.
Unrelated to the bug, how can i run an instance for my people if theres an article for this please link it to me.

Edit: changing instance seems fruitless , does load thumbnails cover art and personalized feed (A.k.a. subscriptions), selecting a video loads description title and comments, No playback whatsoever. i'm running libretube v0.16.1 on a modified samsung s9 running lineageOS 20 (Android 13), no gapps installed, still, if i'm somewhat usefull, tell me.

Edit 2: I take the changing instance seems fruitless back, instance whatever.social fuctions normally, However If you try my solution please spread out so we don't acidentally DDoS the working instances.

[DarkCat09]

The same issue with my ytapi.dc09.ru instance.

Proxy returns 403 Forbidden on every video stream request. I mean previews and channel avatars are succesfully loaded, but URLs from videoStreams and audioStreams are not.

I'll update API and proxy, and then edit this comment if anything changed.
Upd: bug still exists in the latest version.

[DarkCat09]

Found the same issue in Invidious repo, and it have been already fixed: iv-org/invidious#4045 (comment)

[DarkCat09]

Fix in NewPipeExtractor: TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#1084

[DarkCat09]

This bug still exists even on the latest Piped-Backend commit.

[fahim44]

no instance work right now. For example: GET https://watchproxy-nl.whatever.social/videoplayback returns 403.

[probatschool2]

I dont know all these terms yall use like instances and stuff like that i m only in 9th grade just trying to find a unblocked youtube to use

[ReduxFlakes]

@probatschool2 To put it simply, YouTube has blocked access to Piped proxy from connecting to YouTube and thus not being able to play videos as far as I know.

[Qaz-6]

https://api.piped.projectsegfau.lt
It works

[alejandro-alzate]

instance whatever.social broke, i migrated to [REDACTED] but broke as well WHILE writing this down

[DarkCat09]

@FireMasterK, could you update your Extractor fork? TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#1084