Request like this dont' work youtube.com/results?search_query=...

[marabu88]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2020.06.16.1
• 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 -v "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=HYPNODANCER"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=HYPNODANCER']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1251, fs mbcs, out cp866, pref cp1251
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.06.16.1
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.18362
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-89794-gc51301db14, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube:search_url] HYPNODANCER: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: HYPNODANCER
[youtube:search_url] playlist HYPNODANCER: Downloading 0 videos
[download] Finished downloading playlist: HYPNODANCER

BUT THIS WORK FINE!

>youtube-dl -v ytsearchdate15:HYPNODANCER
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'ytsearchdate15:HYPNODANCER']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1251, fs mbcs, out cp866, pref cp1251
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.06.16.1
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.18362
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-89794-gc51301db14, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube:search:date] query "HYPNODANCER": Downloading page 1
[download] Downloading playlist: HYPNODANCER
[youtube:search:date] playlist HYPNODANCER: Collected 15 video ids (downloading 15 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 15
[youtube] dxVmmmlJGyA: Downloading webpage
...

Description

Earlier, a search using the link to the search page on Youtube worked fine, but yesterday all such queries began to produce empty values. I can use the youtube-dl query language, but there’s no way to use ALL the search filters that Youtube offers. I tried to fulfill requests both using cookies (with authorization) and without it. if it’s not difficult, then add a detailed description of the use of keywords to the documentation and add to them all that youtube offers. thank.

[marabu88]

Today, without any changes on my part, everything worked, but I ask you not to delete this topic, since most likely YouTube can change something again. and my request for documentation of search queries is still relevant.

[hejops]

Can confirm the default search URL no longer works for me; last time I remember it working was about a couple days ago. Here's my verbose log:

>youtube-dl -v "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bolzer"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: ['-o', '/path/%(title)s - %(id)s - %(uploader)s.%(ext)s']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bolzer']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.06.16.1
[debug] Python version 3.8.3 (CPython) - Linux-4.14.182-1-MANJARO-x86_64-with-glibc2.2.5
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.3, ffprobe 4.2.3, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube:search_url] bolzer: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: bolzer
[youtube:search_url] playlist bolzer: Downloading 0 videos
[download] Finished downloading playlist: bolzer

[marabu88]

as I expected - the search again ceased to produce any result :(
 

[h-faraday]

Can confirm, now experiencing the same issue on 2020.06.16.1. Looks like youtube must have changed something

[xarantolus]

I took a look at this and fixed the extraction for normal search urls as mentioned here. Now the normal search functionality (ytsearch:query) doesn't work anymore and I'm not sure how to get it to work together correctly