Downloading way slower than usual

[erturkdotgg]

Ytdl core is working so slow since last 2 days. Its downloading files very very slow.

Many people are also experiencing same issue at the ytdl-core discord server. Need a fix right now.

[endblack]

Também estou com o mesmo problema

[nextpier]

Same for me...

[yyildiz]

We've been experiencing this issue for the past two days now.

[gathilas]

This is happening to me too. Slow is kind of an understatement, it can take hours to download a video and a lot of times it'll just stop downloading all together.

[sacreations]

same for me

[matthewredmongross]

same

[chenaaron3]

Seeing problems with this too. My lambda functions are timing out.

[gatecrasher777]

I've picked up, in another project, that there is in the past 24 hours, a syntax error in extracting the n-transform function. You will always get very slow speeds without the n-transform working properly. Will try to trace the problem today.

[preetam52c]

ytdl-core downloading video very slowly. We are facing major issue for this. Does anyone fond any solution? It's taking hours to download. Please fix it. 🙏🏼

[gatecrasher777]

line 59 in sig.js

  if (functionName.includes('[')) functionName = utils.between(body, `${functionName.split('[')[0]}=[`, `]`);

needs to be

  if (functionName.includes('[')) functionName = utils.between(body, `var ${functionName.split('[')[0]}=[`, `]`);

Because if other functions end in the same character sequence it fails to find the correct function. In this case, the functionName was "ata" and there is a bunch of other functions called "Data"

Created PR #1242

[chenaaron3]

lgtm, can we publish this to a new version?

[nextpier]

@gatecrasher777 thank you. It works fine. Is there a way to incorporate your PR in the package.json of our projects? It seems that this great repo is no longer mantained...

[gatecrasher777]

  "dependencies": {
    "ytdl-core": "github:gatecrasher777/node-ytdl-core#master"
  }

@nextpier
Tested this and it seems to work.
May have to delete package-lock.json and node-modules folder.
Then run npm install.
Then revert back to version number if/when the PR is merged.

[endblack]

This really worked, thank you very much.

[TimeForANinja]

Closed with the merge of #1242
let's say poorly maintained and not "no longer mantained" 😉