[douyutv] unable to download video data

[stevencsc]

• Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)
• Question

[DouyuTV] : Downloading video URL info
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 19, in
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpkyaecyzu\build\youtube_dl_init_.py", line 465, in main
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpkyaecyzu\build\youtube_dl_init_.py", line 455, in _real_main
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpkyaecyzu\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1919, in download
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpkyaecyzu\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 762, in extract_info
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpkyaecyzu\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 433, in extract
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpkyaecyzu\build\youtube_dl\extractor\douyutv.py", line 106, in _real_extract
TypeError: list indices must be integers, not str

unable to download the video from douyutv. I am using the latest version 2017.06.18

[chacha1024]

It seems that douyu have used new api interface.

[yan12125]

streamlink/streamlink#1015 may help. I didn't test it by myself.

[kira1928]

It seems that streamlink/streamlink#1015 using urls which can only work for less than 10 minutes, then the server will close the connection.

[lbcake]

可以试试 GO 语言， China 有些人 就是用go 语言写的 可以录。（现在的是用go语言写的 以前的是C#）

[yan12125]

@lbcake Could you point out a link to the Douyu downloader in Go?

[lbcake]

U try this。链接: https://pan.baidu.com/s/1o8dVgNo 密码: snjt This Go language。 and i dislike go。

eg：https://www.douyu.com/206858

https://www.douyu.com/bianlive

[huxuan]

confirmed that streamlink should have solved the problem as @kira1928 mentioned above.

[yan12125]

Thanks @lbcake. As a reference: https://github.com/Baozisoftware/luzhibo/blob/master/api/getters/douyu.go

[yan12125]

Thanks @lbcake. As a reference: https://github.com/Baozisoftware/luzhibo/blob/master/api/getters/douyu.go

[kira1928]

@rosynirvana proposed a way to fix the 10 minutes download limit of streamlink/streamlink#1015 in this commit. The communication detail about that commit can be found here.

Now I can download douyu live stream by rosynirvana/douyu_cli for a long enough time.

I think youtube-dl can port that fixed method.

[yan12125]

Thanks for the hint. rosynirvana's version is from debugzxcv, which is in turn created by spacemeowx2 (https://github.com/spacemeowx2/DouyuHTML5Player). To port that code, we'll need to ask for explicit permission (change the upstream license or add an exception for youtube-dl) from spacemeowx2.

[kira1928]

His whole project is based on debugzxcv, but I think rosynirvana made that exact commit which fixed the 10 minutes limitation.
Any way, the license is a problem for youtube-dl. Is it possible to rewrite the logic to avoid license? (I'm totally new about license problem, if that's a bad idea, I'm sorry :p)

[rosynirvana]

First part of douyu's private cipher, dyprvt in douyu_cli or black box in DouyuHTML5Player is a modified version of md5. But the second part is much harder to figure out.

[yan12125]

@kira1928: I know clean room reverse engineering is legal (someone writes down how Douyu extracts a video and another turns the flow into Python). I'm not sure about rewriting,

[brlala]

Hi, sorry for bringing up this post, are there any updates on this? Not able to download the offline video https://v.douyu.com/show/o8KxjMdxGNOMVLwb nor download any of the streams on douyu.com. Thank you

[brlala]

youtube-dl https://www.douyu.com/t/shengdian10m67373
[DouyuTV] shengdian10m67373: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract room id; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

Got this error when downloading from douyu. Can you kindly look into this? Thank you

[yan12125]

See: #14692

[zizhengwu]

Is there any progress on this? AFAIK, streamlink is able to stream Douyu properly.

[jiahaoliang]

Reraise this issue:
youtube-dl https://www.douyu.com/timelessX
[DouyuTV] timelessX: Downloading webpage
[DouyuTV] timelessX: Downloading room info
[DouyuTV] timelessX: Downloading video URL info
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl", line 11, in
sys.exit(main())
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/init.py", line 472, in main
_real_main(argv)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/init.py", line 462, in _real_main
retcode = ydl.download(all_urls)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2001, in download
url, force_generic_extractor=self.params.get('force_generic_extractor', False))
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 792, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 500, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/douyutv.py", line 106, in _real_extract
})['data']['live_url']
TypeError: list indices must be integers, not unicode

Confirmed on 2018.6.4

Apparently, streamlink is able to stream Douyu.
# streamlink.exe https://www.douyu.com/timelessX source_http
(Video plays...)
# streamlink.exe --version
streamlink-script.py 0.10.0