[Solved] ABC [GO]: Unable to retrieve required files for playback.

[patdavid]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2020.05.08
• 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

$ youtube-dl --version
2020.05.08

$ youtube-dl https://abc.com/shows/the-goldbergs/episode-guide/season-07/22-the-fakeup -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: [u'--download-archive', u'/home/pat/archive-youtube-dl.txt', u'--retries', u'infinite', u'--fragment-retries', u'infinite', u'--abort-on-unavailable-fragment']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'https://abc.com/shows/the-goldbergs/episode-guide/season-07/22-the-fakeup', u'-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.05.08
[debug] Python version 2.7.17 (CPython) - Linux-4.15.0-96-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-18.04-bionic
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-95880-gd07d1c1, ffprobe N-95880-gd07d1c1, phantomjs 2.1.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Go] 22-the-fakeup: Downloading webpage
[Go] VDKA0_uixgx8ru: Downloading JSON metadata
[Go] VDKA0_uixgx8ru: Retrieving Media Token
[Go] VDKA0_uixgx8ru: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: Go said: 1025:Unable to retrieve required files for playback. Please try again in a few minutes.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 797, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 530, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/go.py", line 205, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError('%s said: %s' % (self.IE_NAME, error_message), expected=True)
ExtractorError: Go said: 1025:Unable to retrieve required files for playback. Please try again in a few minutes.

Description

These URL's were working fine just a few weeks ago. This change seems to have happened recently?

[magnum32]

I'm having the same problems with these links as well:

https://abc.com/shows/good-morning-america/episode-guide/2020-04/14-tuesday-apr-14-2020

https://abc.com/shows/good-morning-america/episode-guide/2020-05/01-friday-may-1-2020

https://abc.com/shows/who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire/episode-guide/season-01/04-in-the-hot-seat-anthony-anderson-ike-barinholtz-and-hannibal-buress

https://abc.com/shows/good-morning-america/episode-guide/2020-05/02-saturday-may2-2020

[tmthywynn8]

This is because the method for retrieving the video ID has changed to a different key pair, so youtube-dl scrapes the wrong video ID—VDKA0_uixgx8ru instead of whatever the real ID is. Also is the reason for #25197, though why it's asking for log-in credentials I have no idea.

Solution:

Open /youtube_dl/extractor/go.py, go to line 141, and change it to read:

                    r'\bvideoIdCode["\']\s*:\s*["\'](vdka\w+)'

[magnum32]

is this issue going to be resolved in the next Youtube-DL version?

[patdavid]

Oh, fantastic @tmthywynn8 - thank you very much for the solution!

[ryanhilton]

Thank you @tmthywynn8!

[DarF234]

Solution:

Open /youtube_dl/extractor/go.py, go to line 141, and change it to read:

                r'\bvideoIdCode["\']\s*:\s*["\'](vdka\w+)'

This is the exact line 141 I have in go.py and I am STILL receiving error 1025!
It is no longer (and hasn't been since not long after this issue was closed) a solution to this problem!
Please look into it soon. My contribution error data is at #26058

[tony-izzo]

It looks like #25216 is the pull request that fixes this problem, but the PR is still open, and when I look at that line in master it is not the same as what's in the fix, so it looks like it never got merged.

I have a local copy based on a commit from around that same time in which I applied the patch manually. It worked in May, and I just tried it again and it still works (for me) now. It may not be the only problem, but I think #25216 needs to be merged at the very least.

[jhall39]

Any chance this will be merged soon?

[AravindhStanley]

Hope the developers merge the changes