[Vlive] Unable to download JSON metadata for channel

[Wilann]

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Region

Canada

Description

When trying to download entire channel from Vlive, there's a JSON "timeout" error.

I believe this is similar to #749, but for that issue there's a unauthorized error cause by "<HTTPError 401: 'Unauthorized'>".

Verbose log

$ yt-dlp -i "https://www.vlive.tv/channel/82DF8B/board/8527" -Uv
[debug] Command-line config: ['-i', 'https://www.vlive.tv/channel/82DF8B/board/8527', '-Uv']
[debug] User config file: /Users/wilsonchan/.config/yt-dlp/config
[debug] User config: ['--add-metadata']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, err UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] yt-dlp version 2021.11.10.1
[debug] Python version 3.7.4 (CPython 64bit) - Darwin-21.1.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.3.1, ffprobe 4.3.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome, keyring, mutagen, sqlite, websockets
[debug] Proxy map: {}
yt-dlp is up to date (2021.11.10.1)
[debug] [vlive:channel] Extracting URL: https://www.vlive.tv/channel/82DF8B/board/8527
[vlive:channel] 8527: Downloading board JSON metadata
[vlive:channel] 8527: Downloading playlist page 1
[download] Downloading playlist: 조유리 JO YURI - Star Board
[vlive:channel] playlist 조유리 JO YURI - Star Board: Downloading 1 videos
[download] Downloading video 1 of 1
[debug] [vlive:post] Extracting URL: https://www.vlive.tv/post/1-26256986
[vlive:post] 1-26256986: Downloading post JSON metadata
[debug] [vlive] Extracting URL: http://www.vlive.tv/video/267577
[vlive] 267577: Downloading officialVideoPost JSON metadata
[vlive] 267577: Downloading inkey JSON metadata
[vlive] 267577: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: [vlive] 267577: Unable to download JSON metadata: timed out (caused by timeout('timed out')); please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp  on how to update. Be sure to call yt-dlp with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. (caused by timeout('timed out')); please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp  on how to update. Be sure to call yt-dlp with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "/Users/wilsonchan/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 713, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/Users/wilsonchan/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 3295, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/Users/wilsonchan/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 525, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/Users/wilsonchan/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 543, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/Users/wilsonchan/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 503, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/Users/wilsonchan/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/yt_dlp/utils.py", line 2766, in http_open
    req)
  File "/Users/wilsonchan/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 1320, in do_open
    r = h.getresponse()
  File "/Users/wilsonchan/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 1336, in getresponse
    response.begin()
  File "/Users/wilsonchan/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 306, in begin
    version, status, reason = self._read_status()
  File "/Users/wilsonchan/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 267, in _read_status
    line = str(self.fp.readline(_MAXLINE + 1), "iso-8859-1")
  File "/Users/wilsonchan/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/socket.py", line 589, in readinto
    return self._sock.recv_into(b)

[download] Finished downloading playlist: 조유리 JO YURI - Star Boa

[pukkandan]

Possibly a network issue. I cant reproduce

➤ yt-dlp https://www.vlive.tv/channel/82DF8B/board/8527
[vlive:channel] 8527: Downloading board JSON metadata
[vlive:channel] 8527: Downloading playlist page 1
[download] Downloading playlist: 조유리 JO YURI - Star Board
[vlive:channel] playlist 조유리 JO YURI - Star Board: Downloading 1 videos
[download] Downloading video 1 of 1
[vlive:post] 1-26256986: Downloading post JSON metadata
[vlive] 267577: Downloading officialVideoPost JSON metadata
[vlive] 267577: Downloading inkey JSON metadata
[vlive] 267577: Downloading JSON metadata
[info] 267577: Downloading 1 format(s): avc1_1080P
[download] Destination: GLASSY HAPPY YULLOWEEN💞🎃 [267577].mp4
[download]   6.1% of 198.46MiB at  2.95MiB/s ETA 01:03
ERROR: Interrupted by user

[pukkandan]

Please confirm whether you can still reproduce the issue

[Wilann]

I can't reproduce either. I suppose it was a network issue. Thank you for checking it out. Will re-open if I encounter any more issues.

[xa10121173]

I had same issue. Disable "--cookies-from-browser" option from your config file.