ERROR: [youtube]

[WhiskeyCoder]

Hey,

Have had MeTube for a while, both self-hosted on my own server, as well as a server for my family at their home. Both have been working perfectly fine since setup. Last week the family server started pumping out issues on YouTube Videos, which was then followed by other platforms like Twitter (X) ..etc

Then today out of the blue after having no issues even last night, i started getting the exsact same error appear in the browser page. Other platforms currently still work it seems to be just YouTube on my side. I tried a forced update with new image, getting the same issues, here is the error seen in the browser, it happens either as Video or MP3 Pull

youtube video #9iTuDvk45Qk ERROR: [youtube] 9iTuDvk45Qk: No video formats found!

Checking the console logs I see the following, it appears the issue is with yt-dlp and bypassing bot detection:

INFO:ytdl:adding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iTuDvk45Qk: quality='best' format='mp3' already=None folder=None custom_name_prefix='' playlist_strict_mode=False playlist_item_limit=0

WARNING: [youtube] Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot. Use --cookies-from-browser or --cookies for the authentication. See  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/FAQ#how-do-i-pass-cookies-to-yt-dlp  for how to manually pass cookies. Also see  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Extractors#exporting-youtube-cookies  for tips on effectively exporting YouTube cookies

WARNING: No video formats found!

WARNING: Requested format is not available

DEBUG:ytdl:Processing as a video

INFO:ytdl:downloading youtube video #9iTuDvk45Qk

INFO:aiohttp.access:192.168.XXX.XXX [24/Feb/2025:14:20:31 +0000] "POST /add HTTP/1.1" 200 271 "http://192.168.XXX.XXX:34456/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

WARNING: [youtube] Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot. Use --cookies-from-browser or --cookies for the authentication. See  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/FAQ#how-do-i-pass-cookies-to-yt-dlp  for how to manually pass cookies. Also see  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Extractors#exporting-youtube-cookies  for tips on effectively exporting YouTube cookies

WARNING: No video formats found!

WARNING: Requested format is not available

ERROR: [youtube] 9iTuDvk45Qk: No video formats found!

INFO:ytdl:waiting for item to download ```

[PikuZheng]

Duplicate of #537
Verify that you are using the latest version of yt-dlp,
or change the IP address, YouTube will block IP addresses from the data center.

[WhiskeyCoder]

@PikuZheng I am using the latest docker image for MeTube. so if that is the latest yt-dlp then yes. Also it currently runs through a VPN that shifts to a new server every 2 days in my homelab. still having the same issue on my end

[PikuZheng]

still I think this is from YouTube blocking IPs (whole ip segment?), if it is just changing the IP instead of the data center
passing cookies may be useful or not, #537 fyi

[WhiskeyCoder]

@PikuZheng What ever the build is on the Docker container is what I'm using in my home lab it is routed through a VPN that shifts every night at Midnight automatically to a random region and server. I have forced a location shift multiple times and still have the same issue. I have also tried without VPN on actually IP I know 100% isn't blocked as I can manually watch youtube and youtube music. Only thing I can think of is that yt-dlp needs to be updated in the docker image that is hosted on DockerHub

[PikuZheng]

metube on docker hub will automatically update yt-dlp.
try to manually run yt-dlp in the homelab, such as yt-dlp -vU https://youtu.be/videoid. If the problem still exists, it will be a issue with yt-dlp.

[WhiskeyCoder]

@PikuZheng Hi Yeah I have no way of doing that on the system as everything is containerised through docker that I am managing through portainer. I have deleted and rebuilt using the latest image in portainer from docker hub and still getting the same issue, erroring out on yt-dlp so it does not appear to be grabbing the latest yt-dlp in the docker image.

[PikuZheng]

[WhiskeyCoder]

via protainer, The console says I have no permissions to do anything is what I mean, cant even ls a dir. I can WhoAmI, Even though with a whoami i see I'm "root".

If I connect to the sh via docker command line I can i have commands and can pull down anything that way, working fine. So i can see yt-dlp is working there, i forced pip upgrade and module upgrade just in case. tested again still working. Restarted the box. go to metube webapp, still get the error. ERROR: [youtube] XXXXXXXX: No video formats found!

That narrows down to a permissions issue with accessing the command to pull content. but looking at my stack configuration i have no PUID or PGID, never had. Checking the docker env through portainer I see a GID and UID of 1000 by default, so should have full permissions to do everything for metube.

And now I'm swamped lol

[megumin31]

still I think this is from YouTube blocking IPs (whole ip segment?), if it is just changing the IP instead of the data center passing cookies may be useful or not, #537 fyi

don't do this since youtube will flag your account and block your account from accessing video, just use vpn to change a clean IP
yt-dlp/yt-dlp#10085

[marxdrive]

Changing the format to "ANY" and quality to "BEST" fixed this error for me.

[WhiskeyCoder]

Changing the format to "ANY" and quality to "BEST" fixed this error for me.

Thanks for the response, actually figured out for some reason BEST dosnt work either, but for some reason 480p works fine. Audio Only miss right now, Sometimes the video to mp3 works other times I get "video not found" im not sure why