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[YouTube] Unable to extract video data #22641
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I'm able to reproduce this locally as of 0920 PST, can pull from other websites besides youtube (being that its broken). |
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I am also having this issue Ubuntu 18.04: Ubuntu 19.10: |
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It appears to be working with my Ubuntu 19.10 desktop install but not the 18.04 server install. Updated comment above to reflect this. |
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I am getting the same error on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS, youtube-dl version 2019.10.16. Was this confirmed fixed? because it seems to be ongoing. |
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Experiencing the same behavior on Debian GNU/Linux 10 |
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Yeah I am now getting the issue on 19.10 But working in 18.04? |
It WAS working again for me after the latest update on 18.04 (Have a NAS running it) but now it seems to also have the issue on 19.10. NewPipe on android has also stopped working so I assume YouTube changed something. |
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Strange... It is working for me in 18.04.... what? Updated commend above to reflect this. |
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@dstftw Can this be re-opened? Obviously something going on here. |
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I have this error with 2019.10.16 on my arch (in virtualbox.) |
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Having the same with my Ubuntu 19.04... really strange! |
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Same here with 2019.10.25... |
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Had the same problem on my openwrt router, was working fine on my computer, so No IP ban problem, curl, aria2c even netcat responded with 429, for me the problem solved when I upgraded to kernel 4.14.150 ... (both 4.14.148 and 4.14.149 had the same problem) |
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I am having the same issue again -_-. Ubuntu Mate 19.10 |
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But it IS working again on Ubuntu Server 18.04.... What is going on!? |
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Was fine for a couple of days then it started happening again? I just updated to the latest version too. |
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Can some of you guys try to run the command with the |
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@TheBoroer I opened the dump file in Firefox. It looks like a captcha page. |
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Can reproduce aswell with the same dump as false chicken |
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I am getting the same issue on elementary os |
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@TheBoroer Hmm it also fails if I try logging in. I never do this so I figured it was worth a shot. But the result is the same. I get the same captcha page. |
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@TheBoroer But I just tested using a VPN... It DOES work if I come from a different country... |
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@falsechicken 这个应该是ip的限制，你可以尝试更改ip试一下. 过一段时间后，报错的服务器 就又正常了。。。 |
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@dcdebug Is right. It appears that YT is detecting that I am using some third party client. After days of not using YT-DL I just tried again and it works. It seems to be presenting the captcha to only YT-DL though. I can still browse with a web browser (without being logged in) just fine. Edit: YouTube is somehow IP "blocking" me but only when YT-DL is used. |
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Hi all, I noticed this issue too. Solving captcha doesn't work as it seems to only block youtube-dl. |
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I'm having to change my proxies every couple of days because Youtube seems to be detecting this faster and faster now and as a result YouTube-DL is running into the same issue (and utilizing a proxy seems to be the only way to work around this) |
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Same issue here, can't get anything anymore after just 2 days of using youtube dl. If anyone knows a fix for this that would be amazing! |
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@Quintenvw I am facing similar issues |
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Me too, on debian buster kernel 4.19.0-6-amd64, the temporary solution is to use a proxy then? |
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Why are we talking about kernels? I assume it have zero relation with system kernels and think the issue is related with something like useragent. |
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You're right. |
This was because initially the two installs I had running here at home where two different Ubuntu versions. It worked on one and not the other. This was before we discovered it was a YouTube blocking problem. |
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Hey, why changing the user agent doesn't work? user@Deskt0p:~/Desktop/USL$ youtube-dl --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.117 Safari/537.36" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcdUt-ezblFANUS3PfNZiTQ/videos |
I feel like it's likely because YouTube is using some kind of machine learning or some other factor to determine what computer you are using. Like I mentioned before when we thought it was a kernel thing because it worked on a different computer in my house that happened to have a different Ubuntu version but not the primary one I use YTDL on. Waiting like a week seemed to solve it. So I think they are using something fancy and unknown to us to identity users who use YTDL a lot. My issue I think was that I downloaded the last 5 videos from over 100 channels in a multithreaded fashion (16 channels at a time...) every hour.... they did not like this bandwidth consumption I think. So now I just do it once a day and have not seen the problem since. Or use a VPN. EDIT: Also I run the job manually now. Doing that on a strict schedule using cron also seemed to tip them off. Even once a day. |
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Yeah, they are beggining to putting restrictions on download. VPN solves it using diferent locations. I'm curious how they determine that is YTDL or 4kvideodownloader (this also suffer from banning), they're not just banning the ip because youtube works in the browser. |
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I was able to bypass this for at least one video by passing |
Didn't work for me :( Guess I'll have to wait for a while and try again. EDIT: Actually, the video I tried to download was privated after it had been posted, that's why I couldn't download it. So please ignore my comment. |
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Maybe it's time to put some download speed restrictions into youtube-dl? |
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Verbose log
Description
The error is "ERROR: Unable to extract video data" and and i cannot reproduce it from multiple countries.
Not working for several URLs/IDs like:
ERROR: pUZoDgj9iHw: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data
ERROR: pUZoDgj9iHw: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data
ERROR: JVmty59D3Co: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data
ERROR: SoCs8HGurSY: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data
ERROR: -LhtcnrZSMs: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data
ERROR: fuBG_osuqy8: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data
ERROR: 6wB7k9SopIA: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data
ERROR: 6wB7k9SopIA: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data
ERROR: wKyTjWtx4qc: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data
ERROR: t6kpZOYecAc: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data
ERROR: uDD5u43EvE4: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data
Could you please help?
Many Thanks