Chaturbate issue (room currently offline)

[blastphemererik]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2019.11.05
• I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• 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: ['-v', 'https://chaturbate.com/lovely_monic/']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1250, fs mbcs, out cp852, pref cp1250
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.11.05
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-94953-gef50cf7b32, ffprobe N-94953-gef50cf7b32
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Chaturbate] lovely_monic: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Room is currently offline
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmp7hc5a0
9v\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 796, in extract_info
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmp7hc5a0
9v\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 530, in extract
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmp7hc5a0
9v\build\youtube_dl\extractor\chaturbate.py", line 61, in _real_extract
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Room is currently offline

Description

It doesn't matter if a model is online, youtube-dl always says that the room is offline. Everything was fine today, the problems started a few hours ago. It seems the site got updated.

[Ubernoob7]

Having the same issue, sucks :( Hopefully there is a fix soon

[pcjamesy]

Same

[altDark]

The same issue

[cb123321]

Hello, when will official installation be updated with this fix?

[silvermindphasar]

the same problem
the site chatrubate now reports that the room is offline but the cam is active and broadcasts

[asdasddffgthhjtreresf]

Im having the same problem. Please fix. :( Thanks.
edit: Its saying:
WARNING: Assuming --restrict-filenames since file system encoding cannot encode all characters. Set the LC_ALL environment variable to fix this.
[Chaturbate] sensualica: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Room is currently offline

Edit2: I set the correct LC_ALL variables, but it doesent help. Not a single one url works. Tried with 10 different rooms.

[ghost]

I wrote a temporary fix for anyone else who doesn't want to wait for an official patch. Just replace the file at youtube_dl/extractor/chaturbate.py
The changes are on lines 43 through 48 if you are worried about the security of the changes.
chaturbate.zip

[asdasddffgthhjtreresf]

I wrote a temporary fix for anyone else who doesn't want to wait for an official patch. Just replace the file at youtube_dl/extractor/chaturbate.py
The changes are on lines 43 through 48 if you are worried about the security of the changes.
chaturbate.zip

Thanks! It works!

[cb123321]

@r33bow Thank you! <3

[ghost]

@r33bow and others - any thought on how to apply this change to a Windows box? I can't swap that file when using the .exe

[ghost]

@r33bow fix works on Windows too, but you have to use source and not the binary.

1. Install Python for Windows
2. Install git
3. Clone this project repo git clone https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/
4. cd youtube-dl
5. Execute to confirm the same problem as the binary python -m youtube_dl [URL_HERE]
6. You should get the same result as you were getting with the binary
7. Replace the ./extractor/chaturbate.py file with the one provided by @r33bow
8. Re-run the command python -m youtube_dl [URL_HERE]
9. Should work!

[jeffkerby]

I cannot seem to locate the path to replace the chaturbate.py on my Ubuntu box, where is this located?

[asdasddffgthhjtreresf]

I cannot seem to locate the path to replace the chaturbate.py on my Ubuntu box, where is this located?

/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl
or different python version folder on /usr/lib/

[jeffkerby]

Thanks, I dropped it in there and replaced the file, restarted the server and still nothing.

[asdasddffgthhjtreresf]

Oh. The full path is /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor
so you need to put it in the extractor folder. And make sure it has 644 permissions (rw-r-r).

[sub-zer087]

noob here, how can i apply this temporary fix in a raspbian (raspberry pi 4 ) installation?
i tried to find the youtube-dl folder but i only find a file named youtube-dl in /usr/local/bin/

[therixor]

i replaced it but it still wont work for some reason...

[biodrone]

@Kamikaze87 if you run pip show youtube-dl (or use pip3 depending on how you've installed it) it should show a location parameter.

[sub-zer087]

With both it gives me command not found, i installed it with the curl command, its the first option from here https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html

[ghost]

This won't work if you run it from binaries (e.g. exe). You have to run it via python from source using steps described in the linked post. Similar steps should work on any operating system.
#23010 (comment)

[biodrone]

Yeah @Kamikaze87, run sudo rm /usr/local/bin/youtube-dland then either follow the steps in the comment above or the pip installation steps from that link if you want to be able to patch it this way.

[sub-zer087]

Thank you, installed with pip, applied the fix and its working

[jeffkerby]

Unfortunately, nothing seems to work.

Followed everything and placed the chaturbate.py in the /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor directory and set permissions to 644. Everything still shows offline.

[Ubernoob7]

Same here... I think we will need to wait for a real patch for a fix

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[therixor]

tryed it with the fix and it worked with python3.5 but not with python3.4, no idea why...

[biodrone]

Interesting, it worked for me using 3.7.5.

[petercheat]

for those who can not apply the patch, a workaround is to insert the cookie "cb_legacy=1"

for example:
youtube-dl --add-header "Cookie:cb_legacy=1" https://chaturbate.com/model/

I am not sure how long this will work.

[brendoncdrew]

Thx... fix workes for me as well