Youtube: Unable to look up account info: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request

[zant0]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2020.07.28
• 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.exe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4qXvqnRMhI
[youtube] Downloading login page
[youtube] Looking up account info
WARNING: Unable to look up account info: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request
[youtube] E4qXvqnRMhI: Downloading webpage
ERROR: E4qXvqnRMhI: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data

Description

I tried to download an age restricted video from Youtube which means I need to log in. But the login failed.
The config.txt looks like this (not my actual login of course...):
-o D:\
-u, --username email@gmail.com
-p, --password pa^ssw0#rD

[jadc]

I'm having the same issue, but using cookies on a private video. Seems like any video requiring some sort of authorization is not being able to be downloaded.

[nicolaasjan]

I think this the same issue as:
#26152

Applying a fix in the source code deals with this.
Pull request:
#26100
Commit:
cae18ef

I applied this fix and then downloading works:

youtube-dl --ignore-config -v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4qXvqnRMhI
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--ignore-config', '-v', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4qXvqnRMhI']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.07.28
[debug] Python version 3.6.9 (CPython) - Linux-4.15.0-112-generic-x86_64-with-LinuxMint-19.3-tricia
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-98759-g1c7e55d, ffprobe N-98759-g1c7e55d
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] E4qXvqnRMhI: Downloading webpage
[youtube] E4qXvqnRMhI: Downloading embed webpage
[youtube] E4qXvqnRMhI: Refetching age-gated info webpage
[youtube] E4qXvqnRMhI: Downloading MPD manifest
[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://manifest.googlevideo.com/api/manifest/dash/expire/1598102735/ei/b8hAX4CzLYWkgQeG07ZI/ip/217.121.193.63/id/138a97bea9d13212/source/youtube/requiressl/yes/playback_host/r2---sn-5hne6nlr.googlevideo.com/mh/er/mm/31%2C26/mn/sn-5hne6nlr%2Csn-4g5e6nsr/ms/au%2Conr/mv/m/mvi/2/pl/15/hfr/all/as/fmp4_audio_clear%2Cwebm_audio_clear%2Cwebm2_audio_clear%2Cfmp4_sd_hd_clear%2Cwebm2_sd_hd_clear/initcwndbps/2092500/vprv/1/mt/1598081072/fvip/2/keepalive/yes/itag/0/sparams/expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Chfr%2Cas%2Cvprv%2Citag/sig/AOq0QJ8wRAIgYyGNQcN0WWXevNmzGhdEKke0_LGQwWUPUcwWBnpsAcoCIEssoq1lqSkiJSNpODuU0meVQf3AXP0DMZkhmQkWNiX7/lsparams/playback_host%2Cmh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Cinitcwndbps/lsig/AG3C_xAwRQIhANrpNDyl4CBcWe89vv7-BTa8dLdij4UD6yvZSJnqoqzpAiBt5RPMdbKuUoXAe9sE88m7lDuUKWELVlYRNJL9LRih8g%3D%3D'
[dashsegments] Total fragments: 79
[download] Destination: 그녀의탐구생활 _ 가슴사이즈는 노브라 상태에서 재야한다 G컵인줄알았는데 아니였어! _ feat.온여이벤트-E4qXvqnRMhI.f137.mp4
[download] 100% of 115.07MiB in 00:41
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://manifest.googlevideo.com/api/manifest/dash/expire/1598102735/ei/b8hAX4CzLYWkgQeG07ZI/ip/217.121.193.63/id/138a97bea9d13212/source/youtube/requiressl/yes/playback_host/r2---sn-5hne6nlr.googlevideo.com/mh/er/mm/31%2C26/mn/sn-5hne6nlr%2Csn-4g5e6nsr/ms/au%2Conr/mv/m/mvi/2/pl/15/hfr/all/as/fmp4_audio_clear%2Cwebm_audio_clear%2Cwebm2_audio_clear%2Cfmp4_sd_hd_clear%2Cwebm2_sd_hd_clear/initcwndbps/2092500/vprv/1/mt/1598081072/fvip/2/keepalive/yes/itag/0/sparams/expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Chfr%2Cas%2Cvprv%2Citag/sig/AOq0QJ8wRAIgYyGNQcN0WWXevNmzGhdEKke0_LGQwWUPUcwWBnpsAcoCIEssoq1lqSkiJSNpODuU0meVQf3AXP0DMZkhmQkWNiX7/lsparams/playback_host%2Cmh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Cinitcwndbps/lsig/AG3C_xAwRQIhANrpNDyl4CBcWe89vv7-BTa8dLdij4UD6yvZSJnqoqzpAiBt5RPMdbKuUoXAe9sE88m7lDuUKWELVlYRNJL9LRih8g%3D%3D'
[dashsegments] Total fragments: 43
[download] Destination: 그녀의탐구생활 _ 가슴사이즈는 노브라 상태에서 재야한다 G컵인줄알았는데 아니였어! _ feat.온여이벤트-E4qXvqnRMhI.f251.webm
[download] 100% of 6.81MiB in 00:05
[ffmpeg] Merging formats into "그녀의탐구생활 _ 가슴사이즈는 노브라 상태에서 재야한다 G컵인줄알았는데 아니였어! _ feat.온여이벤트-E4qXvqnRMhI.mkv"
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffmpeg -y -loglevel repeat+info -i 'file:그녀의탐구생활 _ 가슴사이즈는 노브라 상태에서 재야한다 G컵인줄알았는데 아니였어! _ feat.온여이벤트-E4qXvqnRMhI.f137.mp4' -i 'file:그녀의탐구생활 _ 가슴사이즈는 노브라 상태에서 재야한다 G컵인줄알았는데 아니였어! _ feat.온여이벤트-E4qXvqnRMhI.f251.webm' -c copy -map 0:v:0 -map 1:a:0 'file:그녀의탐구생활 _ 가슴사이즈는 노브라 상태에서 재야한다 G컵인줄알았는데 아니였어! _ feat.온여이벤트-E4qXvqnRMhI.temp.mkv'
Deleting original file 그녀의탐구생활 _ 가슴사이즈는 노브라 상태에서 재야한다 G컵인줄알았는데 아니였어! _ feat.온여이벤트-E4qXvqnRMhI.f137.mp4 (pass -k to keep)
Deleting original file 그녀의탐구생활 _ 가슴사이즈는 노브라 상태에서 재야한다 G컵인줄알았는데 아니였어! _ feat.온여이벤트-E4qXvqnRMhI.f251.webm (pass -k to keep)

If you don't know how to compile, I guess you will have to wait for a new version of youtube-dl...

[jadc]

I tried that patch and it made no difference.

[nicolaasjan]

I tried that patch and it made no difference.

Can you show the full verbose log?

[upex]

My cmd works for most of the URLs but throwing below errors for at least two of the URLs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HI5CQ4Oc1I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pwf7Q6j3tI

'[debug] User config: []\n' +
'[debug] Custom config: []\n' +
"[debug] Command-line args: ['-i', '--username', 'PRIVATE', '--password', 'PRIVATE', '--user-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)', '--verbose', '-f', 'bestvideo[ext=webm && height>=1080]/bestvideo[ext=mp4 && height>=1080]/best[ext=webm]/best[ext=mp4]/best', '--get-url', '--skip-download', '--cookies', '/etc/newcookiefile.txt', 'https://www.youtube.com/embed/-Pwf7Q6j3tI?autoplay=0&enablejsapi=1']\n" +
'[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8\n' +
'[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.07.28\n' +
'[debug] Python version 3.6.9 (CPython) - Linux-5.3.0-1023-aws-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-18.04-bionic\n' +
'[debug] exe versions: none\n' +
'[debug] Proxy map: {}\n' +
'WARNING: Unable to look up account info: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request\n' +
'ERROR: -Pwf7Q6j3tI: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data\n' +
'Traceback (most recent call last):\n' +
'  File "/home/ubuntu/xxxx-backend/node_modules/youtube-dl/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 797, in extract_info\n' +
 '    ie_result = ie.extract(url)\n' +
'  File "/home/ubuntu/xxxx-backend/node_modules/youtube-dl/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 530, in extract\n' +
'    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)\n' +
 '  File "/home/ubuntu/xxxx-backend/node_modules/youtube-dl/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1893, in _real_extract\n' +
"    'YouTube said: %s' % unavailable_message, expected=True, video_id=video_id)\n" +
'youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: -Pwf7Q6j3tI: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data\n'

Please help if anybody got a fix for this!!

[nicolaasjan]

My cmd works for most of the URLs but throwing below errors for at least two of the URLs:

The World’s Worst Liar (“The Usual Suspects” Parody) - Key & Peele
Overly Competitive Trumpeters - Key & Peele

Please help if anybody got a fix for this!!

Works here...
(but without --cookies and/or --username, --password, etc).

Note that youtube-dl by default downloads the best video/audio quality.

However, you don't have ffmpeg installed, so the separate video and audio streams can't be merged into one file:
[debug] exe versions: none

youtube-dl -v --ignore-config https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HI5CQ4Oc1I
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '--ignore-config', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HI5CQ4Oc1I']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.07.28
[debug] Python version 3.6.9 (CPython) - Linux-4.15.0-112-generic-x86_64-with-LinuxMint-19.3-tricia
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-98759-g1c7e55d, ffprobe N-98759-g1c7e55d
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] 3HI5CQ4Oc1I: Downloading 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://r4---sn-5hne6nsr.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1598797840&ei=sGNLX9SjHZj7gQfsk6ywBA&ip=*.*.*.*&id=o-ABoMTV403R3v87YARlYDkdwXOvCmI26eartwYxhPAITB&itag=137&aitags=133%2C134%2C135%2C136%2C137%2C160%2C242%2C243%2C244%2C247%2C248%2C278%2C394%2C395%2C396%2C397%2C398%2C399&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&mh=Lc&mm=31%2C26&mn=sn-5hne6nsr%2Csn-4g5e6nzs&ms=au%2Conr&mv=m&mvi=4&pl=15&gcr=nl&initcwndbps=1392500&vprv=1&mime=video%2Fmp4&gir=yes&clen=23180293&dur=228.186&lmt=1574931952354816&mt=1598776113&fvip=4&keepalive=yes&c=WEB&txp=6535432&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Caitags%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cgcr%2Cvprv%2Cmime%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=AOq0QJ8wRQIhAIXzM_RrpS-4-wuNrf2-te9OX85cPPkL3_-8qpnmQCLoAiAGnpq5UWii4Cl9OHyXzi3LXw9_kvYo2-DaW3l2XoJMag%3D%3D&lsparams=mh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=AG3C_xAwRAIgA3l7PRRSr3ifCCU-Zot7mY38olAuLVdEBeD91V0l2F0CIDUjMTpfQ0FsxMC4Oqkfr8dDt1v5n5x6eGmb0ZHnJ3ho&ratebypass=yes'
[download] Destination: The World’s Worst Liar (“The Usual Suspects” Parody) - Key & Peele-3HI5CQ4Oc1I.f137.mp4
[download] 100% of 22.11MiB in 00:03
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://r4---sn-5hne6nsr.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1598797840&ei=sGNLX9SjHZj7gQfsk6ywBA&ip=*.*.*.*&id=o-ABoMTV403R3v87YARlYDkdwXOvCmI26eartwYxhPAITB&itag=251&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&mh=Lc&mm=31%2C26&mn=sn-5hne6nsr%2Csn-4g5e6nzs&ms=au%2Conr&mv=m&mvi=4&pl=15&gcr=nl&initcwndbps=1392500&vprv=1&mime=audio%2Fwebm&gir=yes&clen=3456022&dur=228.221&lmt=1592983726996210&mt=1598776113&fvip=4&keepalive=yes&c=WEB&txp=6511222&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cgcr%2Cvprv%2Cmime%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=AOq0QJ8wRQIhAJ0ow8mz_vy2bi9nS2t6MOLpJ1Rp85pXsrm8GOAApUaIAiA6mhW_R7BFRzJH9B0u4ESOYT231hvgAJ0_iTg6iQ7Sqg%3D%3D&lsparams=mh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=AG3C_xAwRAIgA3l7PRRSr3ifCCU-Zot7mY38olAuLVdEBeD91V0l2F0CIDUjMTpfQ0FsxMC4Oqkfr8dDt1v5n5x6eGmb0ZHnJ3ho&ratebypass=yes'
[download] Destination: The World’s Worst Liar (“The Usual Suspects” Parody) - Key & Peele-3HI5CQ4Oc1I.f251.webm
[download] 100% of 3.30MiB in 00:00
[ffmpeg] Merging formats into "The World’s Worst Liar (“The Usual Suspects” Parody) - Key & Peele-3HI5CQ4Oc1I.mkv"
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffmpeg -y -loglevel repeat+info -i 'file:The World’s Worst Liar (“The Usual Suspects” Parody) - Key & Peele-3HI5CQ4Oc1I.f137.mp4' -i 'file:The World’s Worst Liar (“The Usual Suspects” Parody) - Key & Peele-3HI5CQ4Oc1I.f251.webm' -c copy -map 0:v:0 -map 1:a:0 'file:The World’s Worst Liar (“The Usual Suspects” Parody) - Key & Peele-3HI5CQ4Oc1I.temp.mkv'
Deleting original file The World’s Worst Liar (“The Usual Suspects” Parody) - Key & Peele-3HI5CQ4Oc1I.f137.mp4 (pass -k to keep)
Deleting original file The World’s Worst Liar (“The Usual Suspects” Parody) - Key & Peele-3HI5CQ4Oc1I.f251.webm (pass -k to keep)