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YouTube video downloader in javascript.
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Error: Video unavailable #888

Open brennanwilkes opened 3 years ago

brennanwilkes commented 3 years ago

About 5% of video URL's throw an error.

Error: Video unavailable at Object.exports.playError (/usr/src/app/node_modules/ytdl-core/lib/utils.js:124:12) at downloadFromInfoCallback (/usr/src/app/node_modules/ytdl-core/lib/index.js:72:19) at /usr/src/app/node_modules/ytdl-core/lib/index.js:20:5 at runMicrotasks (<anonymous>) at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:97:5)

Version

$ npm ls ytdl-core
└── ytdl-core@4.5.0

An example URL which reproducibly fails: youtube.com/watch?v=0NChtZCDCsY

Weirdly, it works just fine on my local machine (in Canada), but fails when deployed to Google Cloud Run on US-West. However the video in question should be available in the United States, and the errors still persist when downloading through a Canadian proxy server, so I don't believe country restrictions is the issue.

When checking for formats with:

ytdl.getInfo(url).then(res => {
    console.dir(res.formats);
});

any empty array [] is printed.

A simplified snippet of my code:

ytdl.getInfo(url).then(res => {
        const audioFormats = ytdl.filterFormats(res.formats, "audioonly");

        const download = ytdl(url, {
                quality: audioFormats.length > 0 ? "highestaudio" : "lowestvideo"
        }).on("error", err => {
                console.error(`Failed to download ${url}`);
                console.error(err);
        });
});

Any ideas?

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