Failed to execute youtube-dl: exit status 1

[LucasJanin]

Hi

Today, the download doesn't work anymore but it was working yesterday.

time="2023-02-17T16:49:14-05:00" level=info msg="download count: 1"
time="2023-02-17T16:49:14-05:00" level=info msg="! downloading episode https://youtube.com/watch?v=CjsPSHRuwIM" episode_id=CjsPSHRuwIM index=0
time="2023-02-17T16:49:26-05:00" level=error msg="youtube-dl error: /tmp/podsync-4005477621/CjsPSHRuwIM.%(ext)s" error="failed to execute youtube-dl: exit status 1"
time="2023-02-17T16:49:26-05:00" level=error msg="[youtube] CjsPSHRuwIM: Downloading webpage\n[youtube] CjsPSHRuwIM: Downloading android player API JSON\nERROR: [youtube] CjsPSHRuwIM: Unable to extract uploader id; please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using  yt-dlp -U\n"
time="2023-02-17T16:49:27-05:00" level=info msg="downloaded 0 episode(s)"

Does anyone have the same issue?

Thanks

[LucasJanin]

It looks like related to yt-dlp/yt-dlp#6247

I apply this fix in my docker container and the download is working back
yt-dlp/yt-dlp#6247 (comment)

[berndschmidl]

I have the same problem but the fix didn't work for me. Does anyone have other ideas? I'm also not sure if I'm using yt-dlp or youtube-dl. Where can I look this up? Thanks

[Marx2]

I've used docker image from
https://hub.docker.com/r/tdeutsch/podsync
Build 4 days ago.
So far so good

[dazkarieh]

same issue in QNAP SSH, any sugguestion?

time="2023-02-20T11:52:14Z" level=info msg="! downloading episode https://youtube.com/watch?v=cx5cVuPjEDI" episode_id=cx5cVuPjEDI index=0
time="2023-02-20T11:52:17Z" level=error msg="youtube-dl error: /tmp/podsync-1022987373/cx5cVuPjEDI.%(ext)s" error="failed to execute youtube-dl: exit status 1"
time="2023-02-20T11:52:17Z" level=error msg="[youtube] cx5cVuPjEDI: Downloading webpage\n[youtube] cx5cVuPjEDI: Downloading android player API JSON\nERROR: [youtube] cx5cVuPjEDI: Unable to extract uploader id; please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using  yt-dlp -U\n"
time="2023-02-20T11:52:17Z" level=info msg="! downloading episode https://youtube.com/watch?v=k28OY-pX7fU" episode_id=k28OY-pX7fU index=1
time="2023-02-20T11:52:20Z" level=error msg="youtube-dl error: /tmp/podsync-1913794801/k28OY-pX7fU.%(ext)s" error="failed to execute youtube-dl: exit status 1"
time="2023-02-20T11:52:20Z" level=error msg="[youtube] k28OY-pX7fU: Downloading webpage\n[youtube] k28OY-pX7fU: Downloading android player API JSON\nERROR: [youtube] k28OY-pX7fU: Unable to extract uploader id; please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using  yt-dlp -U\n"
time="2023-02-20T11:52:20Z" level=info msg="! downloading episode https://youtube.com/watch?v=rLn8diElHOk" episode_id=rLn8diElHOk index=2
time="2023-02-20T11:52:22Z" level=error msg="youtube-dl error: /tmp/podsync-2596225763/rLn8diElHOk.%(ext)s" error="failed to execute youtube-dl: exit status 1"
time="2023-02-20T11:52:22Z" level=error msg="[youtube] rLn8diElHOk: Downloading webpage\n[youtube] rLn8diElHOk: Downloading android player API JSON\nERROR: [youtube] rLn8diElHOk: Unable to extract uploader id; please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using  yt-dlp -U\n"
time="2023-02-20T11:52:22Z" level=info msg="downloaded 0 episode(s)"

[dazkarieh]

I've used docker image from https://hub.docker.com/r/tdeutsch/podsync Build 4 days ago. So far so good

well done, it worked 4 me

[berndschmidl]

I don't use docker and my installation worked fine before this bug. I guess I would just need help to get youtube-dl or yt-dlp running again. Not a developer and more winging it here

[LucasJanin]

I don't use docker and my installation worked fine before this bug. I guess I would just need help to get youtube-dl or yt-dlp running again. Not a developer and more winging it here

Have you tried this? yt-dlp/yt-dlp#6247 (comment)

[berndschmidl]

yes. didn't work.

[streightedge]

I've used docker image from https://hub.docker.com/r/tdeutsch/podsync Build 4 days ago. So far so good

well done, it worked 4 me

Is this only working for arm? I tried to pull image to amd and got no manifest found error. Am I doing something wrong?

[elias-fox]

I was running into this as well. The problem is you need to update yt-dlp. Fortunately the container can handle this automatically by adding the following to your config file:

# Youtube-dl specific configuration.
[downloader]
# Optional, auto update youtube-dl every 24 hours
self_update = true

[streightedge]

A good to know thank you.

I have fixed it temporarily by executing in container
python3 -m pip install --force-reinstall https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/archive/master.tar.gz

but it works until the container crashes for any reason.

[guss77]

I also encountered this problem with current mxpv/podsync:latest from docker hub. Using tdeutsch/podsync instead, updating yt-dlp locally inside the container or just rebuilding the container using the original Dockerfile all workaround the issue.

I believe its just a bug in the 6 months old version of yt-dlp in the docker hub image (very likely just an API change in YouTube) that is already fixed, and @mxpv should just trigger a rebuild of the docker hub image to get this fixed.

[skofield05]

Still no luck for me. I get this error now

error="could not find youtube-dl: failed to execute youtube-dl: exit status 127"

maybe I edited something in the past. but where would I tell podsync where it can find youtube-dl or yt-dlp? Wouldn't care which one it uses.

[mxpv]

Can you try recent release: https://github.com/mxpv/podsync/releases/tag/v2.6.1 ?

docker pull ghcr.io/mxpv/podsync:latest

[skofield05]

I finally figured it out. I don't do docker but I got the newest version from github. Then I made sure that neither youtube-dl nor yt-dlp are on the system with purge and also uninstalling it via pip. You can check if it is still on the system with whereis youtube-dl and whereis yt-dlp
Then I downloaded newest yt-dlp version via pip and made a symlink from youtube-dl to yt-dlp. That did the trick. Make sure to get yt-dlp from pip and not apt install.