Wow! Just Wow! 😮 Discovered this whilst trying to debug why my Youtube frontend no longer works:

$ youtube-dl 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpiK1FMy2Mg'
[youtube] YpiK1FMy2Mg: Downloading webpage
WARNING: unable to extract uploader id; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

Same here:

$ youtubedr download 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpiK1FMy2Mg'
2024/11/23 09:01:12 download to directory .
time=2024-11-23T09:01:12.946+10:00 level=INFO msg="Downloading video" id=YpiK1FMy2Mg quality=medium mimeType="video/mp4; codecs=\"av01.0.01M.08\""
chunk at offset 0 has invalid size: expected=10485760 actual=0

What I’m seeing is some kind of detection going on and the CDN servers responding with 0 bytes.

@prologic@twtxt.net It has been ages since the last time yt-dl worked for me … maybe give yt-dlp a try?

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Yeah I’ve been busily refactoring code today to use yt-dlp under the hood 👌