[Bug Report] Downloading from telegram

[Marco-9456]

Describe the bug

Yt-dlp is able to download from telegram according to their supported websites list, i tried to download several videos from it, some of them worked and others not

To Reproduce

Try downloading from the link in the error report box

Error reports & Screenshots

URL: https://t.me/c/1548735445/509 Expected start of the object '{', but had 'EOF' instead at path: $ JSON input:

Device info

App version: 1.8.0 (10800) Device information: Android 13 (API 33) Supported ABIs: [arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, armeabi] Yt-dlp version: 2023.01.06

Additional context

It works with this link https://t.me/bruhcollective/314

[JunkFood02]

@Marco-9456 Cannot access to the message here, can you enable download playlist and try again?

[Marco-9456]

@Marco-9456 can you enable download playlist and try again?

URL: https://t.me/c/1548735445/509
Expected start of the object '{', but had 'EOF' instead at path: $
JSON input: null

[JunkFood02]

@Marco-9456 It seems yt-dlp just return null for this URL because it's private content, use custom commands to see if it throws an error

[Marco-9456]

@Marco-9456 It seems yt-dlp just return null for this URL because it's private content, use custom commands to see if it throws an error

👍🏻

[Marco-9456]

@Marco-9456 It seems yt-dlp just return null for this URL because it's private content, use custom commands to see if it throws an error

It doesn't throw any error and says Download Completed, but nothing is downloaded

Edit: i update the additional context

[JunkFood02]

@Marco-9456 Was the video actually downloaded? If so, use -J and post the log here, it could be a parsing error

[Marco-9456]

No video is downloaded and the log gives null this time

[Marco-9456]

@Marco-9456 Was the video actually downloaded? If so, use -J and post the log here, it could be a parsing error

But using -vU gives me this log;

log

``` [debug] Command-line config: ['-P', '/storage/emulated/0/Download/Seal/Video', '--downloader', 'libaria2c.so', '--external-downloader-args', 'aria2c:"--summary-interval=1"', '--config-locations', '/data/user/0/com.junkfood.seal/cache/config.txt', '--cookies', '/data/user/0/com.junkfood.seal/cache/cookies.txt', '--no-cache-dir', '--ffmpeg-location', '/data/app/~~XSDC-LMB-cq3Tj3LZrsaVg==/com.junkfood.seal-x2Mh2NlmNAcgVAEBJpSG8g==/lib/arm64/libffmpeg.so', 'https://t.me/c/1548735445/509'] [debug] | Config "/data/user/0/com.junkfood.seal/cache/config.txt": ['-vU'] [debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, pref UTF-8, out utf-8 (No ANSI), error utf-8 (No ANSI), screen utf-8 (No ANSI) [debug] yt-dlp version 2022.11.11 [8b64402] (zip) [debug] Python 3.8.0 (CPython aarch64 64bit) - Linux-5.4.147-25489110-abG996BXXS5DWA4-aarch64-with-libc (OpenSSL 1.1.1d 10 Sep 2019, libc) [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 5.1 (setts), ffprobe 5.1 [debug] Optional libraries: mutagen-1.46.0, sqlite3-2.6.0 [debug] Proxy map: {} [debug] Loaded 1723 extractors [debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest [debug] Downloading _update_spec from https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/download/2023.01.06/_update_spec [debug] Downloading yt-dlp from https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/download/2023.01.06/yt-dlp [debug] Downloading SHA2-256SUMS from https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/download/2023.01.06/SHA2-256SUMS WARNING: Restart yt-dlp to use the updated version Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data/user/0/com.junkfood.seal/no_backup/youtubedl-android/packages/python/usr/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 192, in _run_module_as_main return _run_code(code, main_globals, None, File "/data/user/0/com.junkfood.seal/no_backup/youtubedl-android/packages/python/usr/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code exec(code, run_globals) File "/data/user/0/com.junkfood.seal/no_backup/youtubedl-android/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/__main__.py", line 17, in File "/data/user/0/com.junkfood.seal/no_backup/youtubedl-android/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/__init__.py", line 968, in main File "/data/user/0/com.junkfood.seal/no_backup/youtubedl-android/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/__init__.py", line 958, in _real_main File "/data/user/0/com.junkfood.seal/no_backup/youtubedl-android/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 3322, in download File "/data/user/0/com.junkfood.seal/no_backup/youtubedl-android/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 3297, in wrapper File "/data/user/0/com.junkfood.seal/no_backup/youtubedl-android/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1474, in extract_info File "/data/user/0/com.junkfood.seal/no_backup/youtubedl-android/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 784, in get_info_extractor File "/data/user/0/com.junkfood.seal/no_backup/youtubedl-android/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/lazy_extractors.py", line 36, in __new__ File "/data/user/0/com.junkfood.seal/no_backup/youtubedl-android/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/utils.py", line 5857, in __get__ File "/data/user/0/com.junkfood.seal/no_backup/youtubedl-android/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/lazy_extractors.py", line 32, in real_class File "/data/user/0/com.junkfood.seal/no_backup/youtubedl-android/packages/python/usr/lib/python3.8/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level) File "", line 1014, in _gcd_import File "", line 991, in _find_and_load File "", line 975, in _find_and_load_unlocked File "", line 655, in _load_unlocked File "", line 618, in _load_backward_compatible File "", line 241, in load_module File "", line 709, in _get_module_code File "", line 548, in _get_data zipimport.ZipImportError: bad local file header: '/data/user/0/com.junkfood.seal/no_backup/youtubedl-android/yt-dlp/yt-dlp' ```

[Marco-9456]

@Marco-9456 Was the video actually downloaded? If so, use -J and post the log here, it could be a parsing error

On the video link a pasted in additional context using -J it downloads the video and gives me this log;

log

`{"id": "314", "webpage_url": "https://t.me/bruhcollective/314?single=True", "duration": 3.0, "thumbnail": "https://cdn4.telegram-cdn.org/file/kCxb7Ntz9IH8OlCLVNRWAOuCwGXVmX2CvuUB2z1FWkMBZmp_7rX49en3YtrvKMXruakiznKnr9X9mnA9rOWFMLemx1wso2MnXEry_RchjFPwnpeYmhzg9R8sqUKO6vEczgb1g1LM43GN-DpX6J7Nobe-LGDKvHYSeZM7AmqPxXgDfDGw-xozV-TGvj_tkRXF0X-EXK3s_cWBzbbY_5M4Q2R7aoEnSCjhH_WRQFkAg5oKc7HUgi_od2bPmrM6ZduvXky1ychoyS9LvZoT5b4nDlJNi6I_CpzS2U9WAPlJtRhlDaU4VtAWH5R9Y9u-WVr4HtS-jekhhzOXQ9GjMiqaNQ", "formats": [{"url": "https://cdn4.telegram-cdn.org/file/7317467c2d.mp4?token=tqMGhKs1jBvZ1BMtRFkBG9B41J1g0-KaUAYhSn8KESLPWHf8fPw5Tkj-3UKFHHHWYKahjo8q0pRtfElLt-8XPTDN4nt4ObIRDP8y-omOwjB3TA5HLjFmD0L_q6f3eAQTDskhXMN0HQfweyzN7p8ZMZlVw46p5Ycpi2zjTHcs5wJIVQv0T4L9sycs4Q6JhIqGKPhp_sRLWFHGacgDyh6JpWovJCR0hu97fP1-uNODzCYdVG-m7FuuIc_wubn3OsL4voMZPhsuP_v_ItFVS3qHIYZtAsQzX-RenAkEH6lwBep-iE6wllypufzS_v5Cr1m7Vq3egpLM8-91-uBCbvb75Q", "ext": "mp4", "protocol": "https", "video_ext": "mp4", "audio_ext": "none", "format_id": "0", "format": "0 - unknown", "resolution": null, "dynamic_range": "SDR", "aspect_ratio": null, "http_headers": {"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/94.0.4606.61 Safari/537.36", "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8", "Accept-Language": "en-us,en;q=0.5", "Sec-Fetch-Mode": "navigate"}}], "title": "aaaaand more animations ;)", "description": "aaaaand more animations ;)", "channel": "bruhcollective.", "channel_id": "bruhcollective", "timestamp": 1674793389, "original_url": "https://t.me/bruhcollective/314", "webpage_url_basename": "314", "webpage_url_domain": "t.me", "extractor": "telegram:embed", "extractor_key": "TelegramEmbed", "playlist": null, "playlist_index": null, "thumbnails": [{"url": "https://cdn4.telegram-cdn.org/file/kCxb7Ntz9IH8OlCLVNRWAOuCwGXVmX2CvuUB2z1FWkMBZmp_7rX49en3YtrvKMXruakiznKnr9X9mnA9rOWFMLemx1wso2MnXEry_RchjFPwnpeYmhzg9R8sqUKO6vEczgb1g1LM43GN-DpX6J7Nobe-LGDKvHYSeZM7AmqPxXgDfDGw-xozV-TGvj_tkRXF0X-EXK3s_cWBzbbY_5M4Q2R7aoEnSCjhH_WRQFkAg5oKc7HUgi_od2bPmrM6ZduvXky1ychoyS9LvZoT5b4nDlJNi6I_CpzS2U9WAPlJtRhlDaU4VtAWH5R9Y9u-WVr4HtS-jekhhzOXQ9GjMiqaNQ", "id": "0"}], "display_id": "314", "fulltitle": "aaaaand more animations ;)", "duration_string": "3", "upload_date": "20230127", "requested_subtitles": null, "_has_drm": null, "requested_downloads": [{"url": "https://cdn4.telegram-cdn.org/file/7317467c2d.mp4?token=tqMGhKs1jBvZ1BMtRFkBG9B41J1g0-KaUAYhSn8KESLPWHf8fPw5Tkj-3UKFHHHWYKahjo8q0pRtfElLt-8XPTDN4nt4ObIRDP8y-omOwjB3TA5HLjFmD0L_q6f3eAQTDskhXMN0HQfweyzN7p8ZMZlVw46p5Ycpi2zjTHcs5wJIVQv0T4L9sycs4Q6JhIqGKPhp_sRLWFHGacgDyh6JpWovJCR0hu97fP1-uNODzCYdVG-m7FuuIc_wubn3OsL4voMZPhsuP_v_ItFVS3qHIYZtAsQzX-RenAkEH6lwBep-iE6wllypufzS_v5Cr1m7Vq3egpLM8-91-uBCbvb75Q", "ext": "mp4", "protocol": "https", "video_ext": "mp4", "audio_ext": "none", "format_id": "0", "format": "0 - unknown", "dynamic_range": "SDR", "http_headers": {"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/94.0.4606.61 Safari/537.36", "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8", "Accept-Language": "en-us,en;q=0.5", "Sec-Fetch-Mode": "navigate"}, "epoch": 1675078118, "_filename": "/storage/emulated/0/Download/Seal/Video/aaaaand more animations ;) [314].mp4", "__write_download_archive": false}], "url": "https://cdn4.telegram-cdn.org/file/7317467c2d.mp4?token=tqMGhKs1jBvZ1BMtRFkBG9B41J1g0-KaUAYhSn8KESLPWHf8fPw5Tkj-3UKFHHHWYKahjo8q0pRtfElLt-8XPTDN4nt4ObIRDP8y-omOwjB3TA5HLjFmD0L_q6f3eAQTDskhXMN0HQfweyzN7p8ZMZlVw46p5Ycpi2zjTHcs5wJIVQv0T4L9sycs4Q6JhIqGKPhp_sRLWFHGacgDyh6JpWovJCR0hu97fP1-uNODzCYdVG-m7FuuIc_wubn3OsL4voMZPhsuP_v_ItFVS3qHIYZtAsQzX-RenAkEH6lwBep-iE6wllypufzS_v5Cr1m7Vq3egpLM8-91-uBCbvb75Q", "ext": "mp4", "protocol": "https", "video_ext": "mp4", "audio_ext": "none", "format_id": "0", "format": "0 - unknown", "resolution": null, "dynamic_range": "SDR", "aspect_ratio": null, "http_headers": {"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/94.0.4606.61 Safari/537.36", "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8", "Accept-Language": "en-us,en;q=0.5", "Sec-Fetch-Mode": "navigate"}, "epoch": 1675078118, "_type": "video", "_version": {"version": "2023.01.06", "current_git_head": null, "release_git_head": "6becd25", "repository": "yt-dlp/yt-dlp"}} `

[JunkFood02]

Reproduced on PC with warning message below:

[telegram:embed] Extracting URL: https://t.me/c/1548735445/509
[telegram:embed] 1548735445: Downloading embed frame
WARNING: [telegram:embed] unable to extract timestamp; please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using  yt-dlp -U
WARNING: Extractor telegram:embed returned nothing; please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using  yt-dlp -U

[Marco-9456]

Reproduced on PC with warning message below:

[telegram:embed] Extracting URL: https://t.me/c/1548735445/509
[telegram:embed] 1548735445: Downloading embed frame
WARNING: [telegram:embed] unable to extract timestamp; please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using  yt-dlp -U
WARNING: Extractor telegram:embed returned nothing; please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using  yt-dlp -U

So it's on yt-dlp side ?

[MicroBeast]

Does yt-dlp support Telegram Private Group/Channel/Chat though?

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/2910

That talk seem indicate it didn't.

Sorry, to chime in. This conversation quiet long on TG ch.