Tubifarry main indexer 403 on spotify and timeout on youtube requests

[abesmon]

Hello! Need some help or advice where to go next, to find where is my problem come from

When i try to search via Tubifarry indexer it find nothing and logs are:

2026-04-22 10:29:19.2|Debug|TrustedSessionHelper|Trying to parse cookies from /data/yt/cookies.txt
2026-04-22 10:29:19.2|Debug|TrustedSessionHelper|Created YouTube client with: Tokens: Invalid/Missing, Cookies: 13 cookies
2026-04-22 10:29:19.2|Debug|SpotifyToYouTubeEnricher|Successfully created authenticated YouTube Music client for enrichment
2026-04-22 10:29:19.2|Debug|TrustedSessionHelper|Trying to parse cookies from /data/yt/cookies.txt
2026-04-22 10:29:19.2|Debug|TrustedSessionHelper|Created YouTube client with: Tokens: Invalid/Missing, Cookies: 13 cookies
2026-04-22 10:29:19.2|Debug|SpotifyToYouTubeEnricher|Successfully created authenticated YouTube Music client for enrichment
2026-04-22 10:29:19.2|Debug|SpotifyRequestGenerator|Generating search requests for album: 'WE’RE IN THIS TOGETHER' by artist: 'Nothing More'
2026-04-22 10:29:19.2|Debug|TubifarryIndexer|Downloading Feed https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=album%3AWE%E2%80%99RE%20IN%20THIS%20TOGETHER%20artist%3ANothing%20More&type=album&limit=20&offset=0
2026-04-22 10:29:19.6|Warn|HttpClient|HTTP Error - Res: HTTP/2.0 [GET] https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=album%3AWE%E2%80%99RE%20IN%20THIS%20TOGETHER%20artist%3ANothing%20More&type=album&limit=20&offset=0: 403.Forbidden (159 bytes)
2026-04-22 10:29:19.7|Warn|TubifarryIndexer|Tubifarry HTTP request failed: [403:Forbidden] [GET] at [https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=album%3AWE%E2%80%99RE%20IN%20THIS%20TOGETHER%20artist%3ANothing%20More&type=album&limit=20&offset=0]
2026-04-22 10:29:24.9|Debug|IndexerFactory|Temporarily ignoring indexer Tubifarry till 04/22/2026 10:59:19 due to recent failures.
2026-04-22 10:29:25.0|Debug|Api|[GET] /api/v1/health: 200.OK (2 ms)
2026-04-22 10:29:53.6|Debug|Api|[GET] /api/v1/queue/details?artistId=29: 200.OK (3 ms)
2026-04-22 10:29:53.7|Debug|Api|[GET] /api/v1/command: 200.OK (1 ms)
2026-04-22 10:29:53.8|Debug|Api|[GET] /api/v1/queue/details?artistId=29: 200.OK (3 ms)
2026-04-22 10:29:53.8|Debug|Api|[GET] /api/v1/command: 200.OK (2 ms)
2026-04-22 10:30:39.6|Debug|YouTubeParser|Failed to enrich album data for: 'Nothing More'

[v3.1.2.4939] System.Threading.Tasks.TaskCanceledException: The request was canceled due to the configured HttpClient.Timeout of 100 seconds elapsing.
 ---> System.TimeoutException: A task was canceled.
 ---> System.Threading.Tasks.TaskCanceledException: A task was canceled.
   at System.Threading.Tasks.TaskCompletionSourceWithCancellation`1.WaitWithCancellationAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at System.Net.Http.HttpConnectionPool.SendWithVersionDetectionAndRetryAsync(HttpRequestMessage request, Boolean async, Boolean doRequestAuth, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at System.Net.Http.DiagnosticsHandler.SendAsyncCore(HttpRequestMessage request, Boolean async, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at System.Net.Http.RedirectHandler.SendAsync(HttpRequestMessage request, Boolean async, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at System.Net.Http.HttpClient.<SendAsync>g__Core|83_0(HttpRequestMessage request, HttpCompletionOption completionOption, CancellationTokenSource cts, Boolean disposeCts, CancellationTokenSource pendingRequestsCts, CancellationToken originalCancellationToken)
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at System.Net.Http.HttpClient.HandleFailure(Exception e, Boolean telemetryStarted, HttpResponseMessage response, CancellationTokenSource cts, CancellationToken cancellationToken, CancellationTokenSource pendingRequestsCts)
   at System.Net.Http.HttpClient.<SendAsync>g__Core|83_0(HttpRequestMessage request, HttpCompletionOption completionOption, CancellationTokenSource cts, Boolean disposeCts, CancellationTokenSource pendingRequestsCts, CancellationToken originalCancellationToken)
   at YouTubeMusicAPI.Internal.RequestHelper.GetAndValidateAsync(String uri, String parameters, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at YouTubeMusicAPI.Client.YouTubeMusicBase.GetWebContentAsync(String apiEndpoint, ValueTuple`2[] parameterItems, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at YouTubeMusicAPI.Client.YouTubeMusicClient.GetAlbumBrowseIdAsync(String id, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at Tubifarry.Indexers.YouTube.YouTubeParser.EnrichAlbumWithYouTubeDataAsync(AlbumData albumData)


2026-04-22 10:30:39.6|Debug|TrustedSessionHelper|Trying to parse cookies from /data/yt/cookies.txt
2026-04-22 10:30:39.6|Debug|TrustedSessionHelper|Created YouTube client with: Tokens: Invalid/Missing, Cookies: 13 cookies

I've added cookies, also proxy is set in Lidarr general (spotify is restricted in my real region), youtube proxy is set (in Connect section), FlareSolver also set (but i not seeing any request via it)

As i can see i have two problems:

1. Spotify is restricted for some reason (why?)
2. forsome reason youtube is closed because of timeout (why so?)

And i dont know what can i test next to find reasons of my issues. Any advice?

[TypNull]

First, I don't think YouTube is protected by Cloudflare or Spotify, so FlareSolverr wouldn't be useful in this case. Additionally, for YouTube, it seems you haven't set up a token generator, which is why YouTube can't verify your access. I'm not sure why this would cause a timeout, usually, you'd receive a "forbidden" or another error message instead.

As for Spotify, their integrations have changed in recent updates following the Anna's Archive incident. They invalidated all old tokens and restricted token creation to premium subscribers only. Since I don't have a Spotify Premium account, all tokens became invalid. Furthermore, new tokens are different from old ones and require different handling. This means that, without someone to support this feature, the Tubifarry indexer will likely be removed soon or transition to using Tidal, Deezer, or another service for metadata.

[abesmon]

Okay, got it. I’ll try setting up token generation and test again later.

What confused me is specifically the timeout, I expected something like a forbidden response, which would clearly indicate a token issue.

A slightly different question: as I understand it, Spotify is used only for initial metadata, and then the actual link and album ID are still fetched via the YouTube API. If that’s the case, why use Spotify at all for the initial data? Wouldn’t it be more reliable to use something like MusicBrainz for primary metadata, then enrich it via the YouTube API and finally fetch content from YouTube? Or am I missing something?

[TypNull]

Wouldn’t it be more reliable to use something like MusicBrainz for primary metadata, then enrich it via the YouTube API and finally fetch content from YouTube?

Using MB for this doesn't make sense since Lidarr can handle it on its own when changing the files. It made sense initially because I was familiar with the Spotify API and it was easy to implement that functionality. Now, I would generally rely on the YouTube indexer and let Lidarr fill in the rest. However, since this was the first implementation and the name of the plugin stems from that, I didn't see a reason to remove it. But I need so now, which would require introducing DB to avoid warnings in your logs.