Channel downloads

[AMJidovu]

Are channel downloads currently supported?

Describe the bug

There was an error while checking playlists: CheckAll: CheckNow: From c.GetMetadata(): ERROR: vP0ZfcuiR2c: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data

To Reproduce
When I try to download channels.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• Docker using Unraid

[nickyhuyskens]

I had the same issue and temporary fixed it by going to the docker tab in unraid and go into a console for this container (or "docker exec -it yt-auto-dl sh" for people not on unraid or logged in using terminal.
Then I manually updated youtube-dl (because youtube-dl -U did not work for me)

I used the following commands:
wget --no-check-certificate https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl
mv youtube-dl /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
chown root:root /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

after this the UI started working for downloading channels.

[mattburlage]

I tried this fix, but now get an error message that seems to be the entire resulting JSON from the channel lookup.

[mattburlage]

So I took a look at the code and I think I've found a fix. Looks like a type mismatch for a piece of the JSON data. The good news is that it appears (at least to me with literally zero Go knowledge) to not actually be needed anywhere.

I cloned the repo and commented out line 64 of structs.go and it seems to work. I'm happy to create a PR with this fix, but would love someone with more go knowledge than me to confirm this (or suggest the actual fix for the type mismatch).