Youtube: authentication failure

[HPP8140]

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• [x ] At least skimmed through the README, most notably the FAQ and BUGS sections
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• [x ] Checked that provided video/audio/playlist URLs (if any) are alive and playable in a browser

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Add the -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with (youtube-dl -v <your command line>), copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u':ytwatchlater', u'-u', u'PRIVATE', u'-p', u'PRIVATE', u'-s', u'-j', u'--flat-playlist', u'--write-pages']
WARNING: Assuming --restrict-filenames since file system encoding cannot encode all characters. Set the LC_ALL environment variable to fix this.
[debug] Encodings: locale ANSI_X3.4-1968, fs ANSI_X3.4-1968, out None, pref ANSI_X3.4-1968
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.08.04
[debug] Python version 2.7.9 (CPython) - Linux-3.14.0-kirkwood-tld-1-armv5tel-with-debian-8.10
[debug] exe versions: avconv 11.11-6, avprobe 11.11-6, ffmpeg 0.8.21-6
[debug] Proxy map: {}
WARNING: Unable to login: Invalid password
ERROR: This playlist does not exist.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 792, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 502, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 2801, in _real_extract
    _, playlist = self._extract_playlist('WL')
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 2316, in _extract_playlist
    raise ExtractorError(message, expected=True)
ExtractorError: This playlist does not exist.
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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Explanation of your issue in arbitrary form goes here.

Youtube fails to authenticate. Looks like the sign-in page has been redesigned again. Previous reference: #12973

[zion2k]

I also have this problem for ~13h now.

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: [u'-u', u'PRIVATE', u'-p', u'PRIVATE', u':ytsubs', u'--playlist-start', u'1', u'--playlist-end', u'100', u'-f', u'bestvideo[ext=mp4][height<=1080]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4][height<=1080]/best[height<=1080]', u'-o', u'/mnt/daten/Videos/YouTube/%(upload_date)s_(%(uploader)s)%(title)s(%(height)sp).%(ext)s', u'--restrict-filenames', u'--ignore-errors', u'--no-overwrites', u'--continue', u'--no-mtime']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.08.04
[debug] Python version 2.7.13 (CPython) - Linux-4.9.0-6-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-9.5
[debug] exe versions: avconv 3.3.8, avprobe 3.3.8, ffmpeg 3.3.8, ffprobe 3.3.8, phantomjs 2.1.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube:subscriptions] Downloading login page
[youtube:subscriptions] Looking up account info
[youtube:subscriptions] Logging in
WARNING: Unable to login: Invalid password
[youtube:subscriptions] Youtube Subscriptions: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: Youtube Subscriptions
[youtube:subscriptions] playlist Youtube Subscriptions: Downloading 0 videos
[download] Finished downloading playlist: Youtube Subscriptions

[HPP8140]

Got presented with verification on another desktop machine logging into gmail. Now the login on the linux box running the app above is able to login again.

[KrumpetPirate]

Having much the same issue here. Been happening for the last couple of days.

[iGoreSchmidt]

I have same problem now. But on all browsers logout-login back works without confirmation like 'device not recognized' but youtube-dl still write 'Unable to login: Invalid password' :|

[zion2k]

I changed my youtube account to 2FA and back to normal password. That seems to solve the problem for 4 days. Since today have the "invalid password" error again.

[HPP8140]

Yeah, happening again today for me as well.

[iGoreSchmidt]

Seems like it depends on IP,
2 days ago i was in other country and had

Unable to login: Invalid password

today, from home, it "works": password is OK but

'Unable to submit TFA code: HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error'

:D

[HPP8140]

Switched to cookie authentication instead of user/pass and it appears to be working.

[cjamesdesigner]

@HPP8140 How do you do this? is cookie authentication the same as .netrc?

[HPP8140]

https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#how-do-i-pass-cookies-to-youtube-dl

[ticalc-travis]

I've been seeing this issue for a number of days, but then it worked fine today, without my having made any changes on my side that I know of, not in Google/YT account settings, nor in updating the youtube-dl script. It seems that this is possibly some sort of weird intermittent failure affected by unknown factors, or else some odd YT-side glitch.

[Fabian42]

This report is still open, right? I'm getting the same "Invalid password" warning and videos are not being marked as watched. Version 2019.11.28, tested today.

[omeringen]

I am experiencing this for about ~4 days. (maybe more, i run youtube-dl weekly)

• I tried on different machines and OS's (Win10, Win7)
• Tried with different WAN ip adresses.

Here is the verbose:

youtube-dl.exe -v -i -u *** -p *** :ytwatchlater
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '-i', '-u', 'PRIVATE', '-p', 'PRIVATE', ':ytwatchlater']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1254, fs mbcs, out cp857, pref cp1254
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.11.28
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube:watchlater] Downloading login page
[youtube:watchlater] Looking up account info
[youtube:watchlater] Logging in
WARNING: Unable to login: Invalid password
[youtube:watchlater] WL: Downloading webpage
ERROR: This playlist does not exist.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpwy0zjfmc\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line
796, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpwy0zjfmc\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py"
, line 530, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpwy0zjfmc\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py
", line 3227, in _real_extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpwy0zjfmc\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py
", line 2730, in _extract_playlist
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: This playlist does not exist.

[denus69]

Checklist

• [ x ] I'm reporting a broken site support
• [ x ] I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2019.11.28
• [ x ] I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• [ x ] I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• [ x ] I've searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

Verbose log

[debug] System config: []                                                                                                                                                                      
[debug] User config: []                                                                                                                                                                        
[debug] Custom config: []                                                                                                                                                                      
[debug] Command-line args: ['-f', 'best', '-u', 'PRIVATE', '-p', 'PRIVATE', '-v', 'https://youtu.be/J7msxRmoA5o']                                                                              
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1251, fs mbcs, out cp1251, pref cp1251                                                                                                                             
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.11.28                                                                                                                                                          
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1                                                                                                                                
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-65616-g7cdef77                                                                                                                                                  
[debug] Proxy map: {}                                                                                                                                                                          
[youtube] Downloading login page                                                                                                                                                               
[youtube] Looking up account info                                                                                                                                                              
[youtube] Logging in                                                                                                                                                                           
WARNING: Unable to login: Invalid password                                                                                                                                                     
[youtube] J7msxRmoA5o: Downloading webpage                                                                                                                                                     
[youtube] J7msxRmoA5o: Downloading embed webpage                                                                                                                                               
[youtube] J7msxRmoA5o: Refetching age-gated info webpage                                                                                                                                       
ERROR: Content Warning                                                                                                                                                                         
This video may be inappropriate for some users.                                                                                                                                                
       Sign in to confirm your age                                                                                                                                                             
Traceback (most recent call last):                                                                                                                                                             
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpwy0zjfmc\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 796, in extract_info                                                   
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpwy0zjfmc\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 530, in extract                                                 
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpwy0zjfmc\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 2148, in _real_extract                                         
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Content Warning                                                                                                                                               
This video may be inappropriate for some users.                                                                                                                                                
       Sign in to confirm your age                                                                                                                                                             

Description

I can't login on YouTube and can't download video when authorization is required.
In google profile settings "Less secure app access" is "On".

[bitraid]

From README.md:

Passing cookies to youtube-dl is a good way to workaround login when a particular extractor does not implement it explicitly. Another use case is working around CAPTCHA some websites require you to solve in particular cases in order to get access (e.g. YouTube, CloudFlare).

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['https://youtu.be/J7msxRmoA5o', '--cookies', 'cookies.txt', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.11.28
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.18362
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg git-2019-12-17-bd83191, ffprobe git-2019-12-17-bd83191, phantomjs 2.1.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] J7msxRmoA5o: Downloading webpage
[youtube] J7msxRmoA5o: Downloading video info webpage
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best
WARNING: Requested formats are incompatible for merge and will be merged into mkv.
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://r3---sn-vuxbavcx-5ui6.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1577207510&ei=dvIBXvbQKMOrgAf-vLOIBg&ip=178.147.93.202&id=o-A
KACdRm3OPKkNKz0bbHQVaGA7knBxEEbwaPbXQ0-T1Q4&itag=136&aitags=133%2C134%2C135%2C136%2C160%2C242%2C243%2C244%2C247%2C278&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&mm=31%2C29&m
n=sn-vuxbavcx-5ui6%2Csn-4g5ednle&ms=au%2Crdu&mv=m&mvi=2&pl=16&initcwndbps=785000&mime=video%2Fmp4&gir=yes&clen=13314429&dur=249.560&lmt=1541860492337570&mt=1577
185844&fvip=3&keepalive=yes&fexp=23842630&c=WEB&txp=5432432&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Caitags%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cmime%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=ALg
xI2wwRAIgAeshPJZmKwY8zGY91KT2TXtQkJnLYPwbqTEioB2Zs0ACIB4hIUqXnzdC_i1Y5QyQPVnHWdkjWRq5sE3pCreKKVib&lsparams=mm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=AHylm
l4wRAIgGWUsKC2SDvOJ44IvUohcli19qKzZGK8NA2_P1UsdzaECIEPOsbok8yY0cd1THEIcTVMjsXIyNtHcgPmAtB3Cl8qp&ratebypass=yes'
[download] Destination: MINE by Álvaro de la Herrán-J7msxRmoA5o.f136.mp4
[download] 100% of 12.70MiB in 00:19
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://r3---sn-vuxbavcx-5ui6.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1577207510&ei=dvIBXvbQKMOrgAf-vLOIBg&ip=178.147.93.202&id=o-A
KACdRm3OPKkNKz0bbHQVaGA7knBxEEbwaPbXQ0-T1Q4&itag=251&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-vuxbavcx-5ui6%2Csn-4g5ednle&ms=au%2Crdu&mv=m&mvi=2&pl=16&ini
tcwndbps=785000&mime=audio%2Fwebm&gir=yes&clen=4203740&dur=249.601&lmt=1541861657916130&mt=1577185844&fvip=3&keepalive=yes&fexp=23842630&c=WEB&txp=5411222&spara
ms=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cmime%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=ALgxI2wwRQIgcaaNeNQMgj8QRkqbO1vdyw6f8omDgeoxYlLLnOarXKsCIQD1mtq5t-wk5Z
f5llD5OgvGCN_TH6nA6J5WcKime0JZRA%3D%3D&lsparams=mm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=AHylml4wRAIgGWUsKC2SDvOJ44IvUohcli19qKzZGK8NA2_P1UsdzaECIEPOsbok
8yY0cd1THEIcTVMjsXIyNtHcgPmAtB3Cl8qp&ratebypass=yes'
[download] Destination: MINE by Álvaro de la Herrán-J7msxRmoA5o.f251.webm
[download] 100% of 4.01MiB in 00:06
[ffmpeg] Merging formats into "MINE by Álvaro de la Herrán-J7msxRmoA5o.mkv"
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffmpeg -y -loglevel "repeat+info" -i "file:MINE by Álvaro de la Herrán-J7msxRmoA5o.f136.mp4" -i "file:MINE by Álvaro de la Herrán-J
7msxRmoA5o.f251.webm" -c copy -map "0:v:0" -map "1:a:0" "file:MINE by Álvaro de la Herrán-J7msxRmoA5o.temp.mkv"
Deleting original file MINE by Álvaro de la Herrán-J7msxRmoA5o.f136.mp4 (pass -k to keep)
Deleting original file MINE by Álvaro de la Herrán-J7msxRmoA5o.f251.webm (pass -k to keep)
``

[denus69]

@bitraid Thank you, it works.

But previously youtube-dl worked perfectly without this trick.

[Joshfindit]

SUGGESTION

Change youtube-dl so that it's crystal-clear that login is failing.

It's very easy to skim past WARNING: Unable to extract result entry and think that the ERROR: This playlist does not exist. is the real problem.