Comments Not Downloading

[Toylance]

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What operating system are you using?

POPOS

What version of Tartube are you using?

v2.5.0

If your bug report is "I can't download this video", please provide a link to the video

N/A

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As recently as one and a half months ago, Tartube lost the ability to download any comments for any and all YouTube videos. Regular download functions work just fine, but otherwise Tartube fails to download comments as requested, as seen here as an example.

[download] Downloading item 5 of 16 [youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my4eKvoiEZQ [youtube] my4eKvoiEZQ: Downloading webpage [youtube] my4eKvoiEZQ: Downloading ios player API JSON [youtube] my4eKvoiEZQ: Downloading android player API JSON [youtube] my4eKvoiEZQ: Downloading m3u8 information [youtube] Downloading comment section API JSON [youtube] Downloading ~856 comments [youtube] Sorting comments by newest first [youtube] Downloading comment API JSON page 1 (0/~856) [youtube] Downloading comment API JSON page 2 (0/~856) [youtube] Downloading comment API JSON page 3 (0/~856) [youtube] Downloading comment API JSON page 4 (0/~856) [youtube] Downloading comment API JSON page 5 (0/~856) [youtube] Downloading comment API JSON page 6 (0/~856) [youtube] Downloading comment API JSON page 7 (0/~856) [youtube] Downloading comment API JSON page 8 (0/~856) [youtube] Downloading comment API JSON page 9 (0/~856) [youtube] Downloading comment API JSON page 10 (0/~856) [youtube] Downloading comment API JSON page 11 (0/~856) [youtube] Downloading comment API JSON page 12 (0/~856) [youtube] Downloading comment API JSON page 13 (0/~856) [youtube] Downloading comment API JSON page 14 (0/~856) [youtube] Downloading comment API JSON page 15 (0/~856) [youtube] Downloading comment API JSON page 16 (0/~856) [youtube] Downloading comment API JSON page 17 (0/~856) [youtube] Downloading comment API JSON page 18 (0/~856) [youtube] Downloading comment API JSON page 19 (0/~856) [youtube] Downloading comment API JSON page 20 (0/~856) [youtube] Downloading comment API JSON page 21 (0/~856) [youtube] Downloading comment API JSON page 22 (0/~856) [youtube] Downloading comment API JSON page 23 (0/~856) [youtube] Extracted 0 comments

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If I had to guess, I suspect it may actually be some API change on Youtube's end, but I can't confirm either way. If there's currently no solution pending as of right now, it would be nice to know if my suspicions are correct or not. I can elaborate and provide screenshots upon request.

[presageroutlook]

Update;. Tartube download from Sourceforge works fine. Downloads from Github did not work for me.

Tartube not working suddenly. Using Linux Mint.

[axcore]

@Toylance I tried downloading subtitles using just yt-dlp, and it doesn't work. So it seems to be a yt-dlp issue.

(Make sure you update yt-dlp to 2024.05.26, because some problems with subtitles have been fixed recently.)

$ yt-dlp --write-subs --sub-langs all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my4eKvoiEZQ
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my4eKvoiEZQ
[youtube] my4eKvoiEZQ: Downloading webpage
[youtube] my4eKvoiEZQ: Downloading ios player API JSON
[youtube] my4eKvoiEZQ: Downloading m3u8 information
[info] my4eKvoiEZQ: Downloading 1 format(s): 302+251
[info] There are no subtitles for the requested languages
[download] Shedinja is Scary as F＊＊＊ - Halloween Special! [my4eKvoiEZQ].webm has already been downloaded

$ yt-dlp --version
2024.05.27

By the way, it's helpful if you include the yellow text at the top of Tartube's output tab, so I can reproduce your download exactly.

[axcore]

@presageroutlook Tartube seems to be working as normal today on my Linux Mint system. If you feel like submitting an actual bug report, then I'll see what I can do to assist you.