Hotstar not working anymore

[justarish]

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• I'm reporting a bug unrelated to a specific site
• I've verified that I'm running yt-dlp version 2023.03.04 (update instructions) or later (specify commit)
• I've checked that all provided URLs are playable in a browser with the same IP and same login details
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Hello all,

I hope I'm not making a mistake by opening this topic. I have a subscription with hotstar, I have been using yt-dlp for this for a long time. Since yesterday the website has changed and it no longer works. hopefully somebody can help me. I can't find any existing issue about this. Thanks in advance.

Provide verbose output that clearly demonstrates the problem

• Run your yt-dlp command with -vU flag added (yt-dlp -vU <your command line>)
• If using API, add 'verbose': True to YoutubeDL params instead
• Copy the WHOLE output (starting with [debug] Command-line config) and insert it below

Complete Verbose Output

yt-dlp -vU -F --cookies-from-browser chrome https://www.hotstar.com/in/shows/anupama/1260022017/anupama-anuj-share-a-moment/1000282843
[debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', '-F', '--cookies-from-browser', 'chrome', 'https://www.hotstar.com/in/shows/anupama/1260022017/anupama-anuj-share-a-moment/1000282843']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, pref UTF-8, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
[debug] yt-dlp version stable@2023.03.04 [392389b7d] (darwin_exe)
[debug] Python 3.8.9 (CPython x86_64 64bit) - macOS-12.6.1-x86_64-i386-64bit (LibreSSL 2.8.3)
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 6.0-tessus (setts), ffprobe 6.0-tessus
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.17, brotli-1.0.9, certifi-2022.12.07, mutagen-1.46.0, sqlite3-2.6.0, websockets-10.4
[Cookies] Extracting cookies from chrome
[debug] Extracting cookies from: "/Users/arishramsaran/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Cookies"
[debug] using find-generic-password to obtain password from OSX keychain
[Cookies] Extracted 3099 cookies from chrome
[debug] cookie version breakdown: {'v10': 3048, 'other': 0, 'unencrypted': 51}
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Loaded 1786 extractors
[debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest
Available version: stable@2023.03.04, Current version: stable@2023.03.04
Current Build Hash: 1f893f5fb990b1df08820be3fac6c46ee93c0b2f797b72a104bbd485139a8e9d
yt-dlp is up to date (stable@2023.03.04)
[generic] Extracting URL: https://www.hotstar.com/in/shows/anupama/1260022017/anupama-anuj-share-a-moment/1000282843
[generic] 1000282843: Downloading webpage
[redirect] Following redirect to https://www.hotstar.com/in/shows/anupama/1260022017/anupama-anuj-share-a-moment/1000282843/watch
[generic] Extracting URL: https://www.hotstar.com/in/shows/anupama/1260022017/anupama-anuj-share-a-moment/1000282843/watch
[generic] watch: Downloading webpage
WARNING: [generic] Falling back on generic information extractor
[generic] watch: Extracting information
[debug] Looking for embeds
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.hotstar.com/in/shows/anupama/1260022017/anupama-anuj-share-a-moment/1000282843/watch
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1518, in wrapper
  File "yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1594, in __extract_info
  File "yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 694, in extract
  File "yt_dlp/extractor/generic.py", line 2510, in _real_extract
yt_dlp.utils.UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://www.hotstar.com/in/shows/anupama/1260022017/anupama-anuj-share-a-moment/1000282843/watch

[justarish]

The link doesn't open in browser for me.

• I've checked that all provided URLs are playable in a browser with the same IP and same login details

Pls double check

Thanks for the quick reply. I just double-checked. It's working fine in the browser.

[bashonly]

it looks like there's a new URL path of /shows/ for some videos, which is not matched by the extractor.
Something like this might work? (I can't test it though; I don't have an account, am not in region, and I get a 400 at the Downloading token stage)

diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/hotstar.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/hotstar.py
index cea1812f1..dc793a62c 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/hotstar.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/hotstar.py
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ class HotStarIE(HotStarBaseIE):
     _VALID_URL = r'''(?x)
         https?://(?:www\.)?hotstar\.com(?:/in)?/(?!in/)
         (?:
-            (?P<type>movies|sports|episode|(?P<tv>tv))/
+            (?P<type>movies|sports|episode|(?P<tv>tv|shows))/
             (?(tv)(?:[^/?#]+/){2}|[^?#]*)
         )?
         [^/?#]+/
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ class HotStarIE(HotStarBaseIE):
         'sports': 'match',
         'episode': 'episode',
         'tv': 'episode',
+        'shows': 'episode',
         None: 'content',
     }
 
@@ -304,7 +305,7 @@ def _real_extract(self, url):
 
 class HotStarPlaylistIE(HotStarBaseIE):
     IE_NAME = 'hotstar:playlist'
-    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?hotstar\.com(?:/in)?/tv(?:/[^/]+){2}/list/[^/]+/t-(?P<id>\w+)'
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?hotstar\.com(?:/in)?/(?:tv|shows)(?:/[^/]+){2}/list/[^/]+/t-(?P<id>\w+)'
     _TESTS = [{
         'url': 'https://www.hotstar.com/tv/savdhaan-india/s-26/list/popular-clips/t-3_2_26',
         'info_dict': {
@@ -327,7 +328,7 @@ def _real_extract(self, url):
 
 class HotStarSeasonIE(HotStarBaseIE):
     IE_NAME = 'hotstar:season'
-    _VALID_URL = r'(?P<url>https?://(?:www\.)?hotstar\.com(?:/in)?/tv/[^/]+/\w+)/seasons/[^/]+/ss-(?P<id>\w+)'
+    _VALID_URL = r'(?P<url>https?://(?:www\.)?hotstar\.com(?:/in)?/(?:tv|shows)/[^/]+/\w+)/seasons/[^/]+/ss-(?P<id>\w+)'
     _TESTS = [{
         'url': 'https://www.hotstar.com/tv/radhakrishn/1260000646/seasons/season-2/ss-8028',
         'info_dict': {
@@ -356,7 +357,7 @@ def _real_extract(self, url):
 
 class HotStarSeriesIE(HotStarBaseIE):
     IE_NAME = 'hotstar:series'
-    _VALID_URL = r'(?P<url>https?://(?:www\.)?hotstar\.com(?:/in)?/tv/[^/]+/(?P<id>\d+))/?(?:[#?]|$)'
+    _VALID_URL = r'(?P<url>https?://(?:www\.)?hotstar\.com(?:/in)?/(?:tv|shows)/[^/]+/(?P<id>\d+))/?(?:[#?]|$)'
     _TESTS = [{
         'url': 'https://www.hotstar.com/in/tv/radhakrishn/1260000646',
         'info_dict': {

[justarish]

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[machasundaram]

seems like all links are being redirected to a "watch" page. Layout changed for the website and its more like a mobile webpage. @bashonly your changes seems to do a little progress but still falling back on generic extractor. Some more changes are required i guess.

[machasundaram]

I don't know if this will be useful to anyone but modifying the URL (replace "shows" with "tv") works, no need for a extractor update.

[pukkandan]

I don't know if this will be useful to anyone but modifying the URL (replace "shows" with "tv") works, no need for a extractor update.

That effectively verifies @bashonly's patch

[justarish]

Thanks all!

[shortthirdman]

I don't know if this will be useful to anyone but modifying the URL (replace "shows" with "tv") works, no need for a extractor update.

Worked for me as well. Thanks buddy @machasundaram .
@pukkandan When will the next stable release be available? Its been more than a month. We are only getting nightly releases

[dirkf]

Out of region the playback API (eg, https://api.hotstar.com/play/v1/playback/content/1000076273?...) returns 400 with

{
  'errorCode': 'ERR_PB_1401',
  'message': 'Bad Playback Request',
  'errorDetails': [
    {
      'headerName': 'X-Request-Id',
      'message': 'Missing or Invalid Header X-Request-Id'
    }
  ],
  'additionalInfo': {
  }
}

Where does X-Request-Id come from?

Can this be fixed (at least to return a real geo-block error), or should it just be converted to a GeoRestrictedError?