Douyin always errors saying fresh cookies are needed, even when passing them

[cyhboy]

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China

Provide a description that is worded well enough to be understood

yt-dlp --verbose --cookies douyin.com_cookies.txt -o "摄影师今个没鸡腿晚风很温柔_7356265095304875264.%(ext)s" https://www.douyin.com/video/7356265095304875264
[debug] Command-line config: ['--verbose', '--cookies', 'douyin.com_cookies.txt', '-o', '摄影师今个没鸡腿晚风很温柔_7356265095304875264.%(ext)s', 'https://www.douyin.com/video/7356265095304875264']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp65001, fs utf-8, pref cp65001, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
[debug] yt-dlp version stable@2024.04.09 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp [ff07792] (pip)
[debug] Python 3.11.8 (CPython AMD64 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.19041-SP0 (OpenSSL 3.0.13 30 Jan 2024)
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2022-01-27-git-3c831847a8-full_build-www.gyan.dev (setts), ffprobe 2022-01-27-git-3c831847a8-full_build-www.gyan.dev
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.17, brotli-1.0.9, certifi-2024.02.02, mutagen-1.46.0, requests-2.31.0, sqlite3-3.41.2, urllib3-1.26.18, websockets-12.0
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets
[debug] Loaded 1810 extractors
[Douyin] Extracting URL: https://www.douyin.com/video/7356265095304875264
[Douyin] 7356265095304875264: Downloading web detail JSON
WARNING: [Douyin] 7356265095304875264: Failed to parse JSON: Expecting value in '': line 1 column 1 (char 0)
ERROR: [Douyin] 7356265095304875264: Fresh cookies (not necessarily logged in) are needed; 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
File "C:\Users\cyy.conda\envs\working\Lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 734, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\cyy.conda\envs\working\Lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\extractor\tiktok.py", line 1135, in _real_extract
raise ExtractorError(

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• Run your yt-dlp command with -vU flag added (yt-dlp -vU <your command line>)
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Complete Verbose Output

yt-dlp  --verbose --cookies douyin.com_cookies.txt -o "摄影师今个没鸡腿晚风很温柔_7356265095304875264.%(ext)s" https://www.douyin.com/video/7356265095304875264
[debug] Command-line config: ['--verbose', '--cookies', 'douyin.com_cookies.txt', '-o', '摄影师今个没鸡腿晚风很温柔_7356265095304875264.%(ext)s', 'https://www.douyin.com/video/7356265095304875264']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp65001, fs utf-8, pref cp65001, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
[debug] yt-dlp version stable@2024.04.09 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp [ff0779267] (pip)
[debug] Python 3.11.8 (CPython AMD64 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.19041-SP0 (OpenSSL 3.0.13 30 Jan 2024)
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2022-01-27-git-3c831847a8-full_build-www.gyan.dev (setts), ffprobe 2022-01-27-git-3c831847a8-full_build-www.gyan.dev
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.17, brotli-1.0.9, certifi-2024.02.02, mutagen-1.46.0, requests-2.31.0, sqlite3-3.41.2, urllib3-1.26.18, websockets-12.0
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets
[debug] Loaded 1810 extractors
[Douyin] Extracting URL: https://www.douyin.com/video/7356265095304875264
[Douyin] 7356265095304875264: Downloading web detail JSON
WARNING: [Douyin] 7356265095304875264: Failed to parse JSON: Expecting value in '': line 1 column 1 (char 0)
ERROR: [Douyin] 7356265095304875264: Fresh cookies (not necessarily logged in) are needed; 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
  File "C:\Users\cyy\.conda\envs\working\Lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 734, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\cyy\.conda\envs\working\Lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\extractor\tiktok.py", line 1135, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError(

[bashonly]

If the video isn't private, try using logged-out cookies (not from any account). Open the video link in browser, solve the catpcha. and export/extract those browser cookies

[Vetches]

Hi! My region is the USA and I have a Douyin account. When I try using the Douyin extractor both logged out and logged in, I get the same error:

yt-dlp -vU --cookies-from-browser chrome https://www.douyin.com/video/7360255988722650409 --verbose
[debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', '--cookies-from-browser', 'chrome', 'https://www.douyin.com/video/7360255988722650409', '--verbose']
[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@2024.04.09 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp [ff0779267] (pip)
[debug] Python 3.12.3 (CPython arm64 64bit) - macOS-14.1.1-arm64-arm-64bit (OpenSSL 3.2.1 30 Jan 2024)
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4.1, ffprobe 3.4.1
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.20.0, brotli-1.1.0, certifi-2024.02.02, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.31.0, sqlite3-3.45.2, urllib3-2.2.1, websockets-12.0
[debug] Proxy map: {}
Extracting cookies from chrome
[debug] Extracting cookies from: "/Users/<user>/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Cookies"
[debug] using find-generic-password to obtain password from OSX keychain
Extracted 3088 cookies from chrome
[debug] cookie version breakdown: {'v10': 2994, 'other': 0, 'unencrypted': 94}
[debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets
[debug] Loaded 1810 extractors
[debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest
Latest version: stable@2024.04.09 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp
yt-dlp is up to date (stable@2024.04.09 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp)
[Douyin] Extracting URL: https://www.douyin.com/video/7360255988722650409
[Douyin] 7360255988722650409: Downloading web detail JSON
WARNING: [Douyin] 7360255988722650409: Failed to parse JSON: Expecting value in '': line 1 column 1 (char 0)
ERROR: [Douyin] 7360255988722650409: Fresh cookies (not necessarily logged in) are needed; 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
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/yt-dlp/2024.4.9_1/libexec/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 734, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/yt-dlp/2024.4.9_1/libexec/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/tiktok.py", line 1135, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError(

I've tried other browsers as well, such as Edge, Opera, and Firefox, and they all throw the same error. I know projects like F2 make API calls to Douyin's API endpoints, but I've not had a chance to look at yt-dlp's version.

[cybertahr]

same error warning message, logged-in / logged-out cookies get this same error:
Failed to parse JSON: Expecting value in '': line 1 column 1 (char 0)

[linlance]

same error warning message, logged-in / logged-out cookies get this same error:

WARNING: [Douyin] 7364022131870453028: Failed to parse JSON: Expecting value in '': line 1 column 1 (char 0) ERROR: [Douyin] 7364022131870453028: Fresh cookies (not necessarily logged in) are needed; 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

[cherinyy]

I don't think this issue is caused by the lack of cookies, more like a bug.

Is ie_result = self._real_extract(url) meant to handle links from www.iesdouyin.com?

[debug] Command-line config: ['--verbose', '--user-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', '--cookies', 'douyin.txt', 'https://www.iesdouyin.com/share/video/7347184558946766099/']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp936, fs utf-8, pref cp936, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
[debug] yt-dlp version nightly@2024.05.30.232720 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds [2e5a47da4] (pip)
[debug] Python 3.12.3 (CPython AMD64 64bit) - Windows-11-10.0.22631-SP0 (OpenSSL 3.0.13 30 Jan 2024)
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2024-05-29-git-fa3b153cb1-full_build-www.gyan.dev (setts), ffprobe 2024-05-29-git-fa3b153cb1-full_build-www.gyan.dev
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.20.0, brotli-1.1.0, certifi-2024.02.02, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.31.0, sqlite3-3.45.1, urllib3-2.2.1, websockets-12.0
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets
[debug] Loaded 1820 extractors
[generic] Extracting URL: https://www.iesdouyin.com/share/video/7347184558946766099/
[generic] 7347184558946766099: Downloading webpage
[redirect] Following redirect to https://www.douyin.com/video/7347184558946766099?previous_page=app_code_link
[Douyin] Extracting URL: https://www.douyin.com/video/7347184558946766099?previous_page=app_code_link
[Douyin] 7347184558946766099: Downloading web detail JSON
WARNING: [Douyin] 7347184558946766099: Failed to parse JSON: Expecting value in '': line 1 column 1 (char 0)
ERROR: [Douyin] 7347184558946766099: Fresh cookies (not necessarily logged in) are needed
  File "C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.12_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python312\site-packages\yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 734, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.12_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python312\site-packages\yt_dlp\extractor\tiktok.py", line 1310, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError(