ERROR: [twitter] 98764321: Unrecognized subtask ID "DenyLoginSubtask"

[Shohreh]

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Hello,

It worked until today, but I'm now getting this error when trying to download a video from Twitter:

c:\youtube-dlp.exe --username joe --password blah --abort-on-error --twofactor 123456 -o test.mp4 https://twitter.com/blah/status/98764321
ERROR: [twitter] 98764321: Unrecognized subtask ID "DenyLoginSubtask"

Downloading still works OK when using a web-based app, so it looks specific to YDLP. Am I the only one having this issue?

Thank you.

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

[debug] Command-line config: ['-vU']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, pref cp1252, out utf-8 (No VT), error utf-8 (No VT), screen utf-8 (No VT)
[debug] yt-dlp version stable@2023.07.06 [b532a3481] (win_x86_exe)
[debug] Python 3.7.9 (CPython x86 32bit) - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 (OpenSSL 1.1.1g  21 Apr 2020)
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-109165-g9f5a9a7499-20221122 (setts), ffprobe N-109165-g9f5a9a7499-20221122
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.18.0, brotli-1.0.9, certifi-2023.05.07, mutagen-1.46.0, sqlite3-2.6.0, websockets-11.0.3
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Loaded 1855 extractors
[debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest
Available version: stable@2023.07.06, Current version: stable@2023.07.06
Current Build Hash: 7ce646283f2c437e2dc28e3008c892702824b6174f381d82b8e68c5bdb6be3b2
yt-dlp is up to date (stable@2023.07.06)

[bashonly]

I'm now getting this error when trying to download a video from Twitter

Can you please show a full verbose log of the yt-dlp login failing?
This looks like something that was missed in the extractor's login implementation

Downloading still works OK when using a web-based app, so it looks specific to YDLP. Am I the only one having this issue?

You no longer need to be logged in with yt-dlp in order to download twitter videos. Or if you are downloading age-restricted content, you can pass cookies instead of -u/-p

[Shohreh]

Thanks for the info. It's working again. Looks like a site-bug indeed.

[gamer191]

This came up when I googled "DenyLoginSubtask". It's MIT licensed though, so I doubt it can be used :(
https://github.com/kenchan0130/unofficial-twitter-api-client-go/blob/main/twitter/session.go#L65

[bashonly]

Apparently DenyLoginSubtask is sent from twitter upon a "suspicious login" attempt, but I'm not sure what exactly raises twitter's suspicion.

Closing this again since I can't repro it and I don't have enough info to patch it properly

If anyone else experiences this error, please run your command again with -v --write-pages and post the verbose log here. The dumped pages should not be posted publicly, but could be sent privately to the dev working to solve this