I have noticed that any youtube videos that are blocked for various reasons such as potentially offensive just error out in the podcasts download. I use YouCast with MusicBee to manage my youtube podcasts. It always says failed and when I look up the video in question it gives me the confirm you wish to continue screen. I noticed it changes the youtube url to end with "&has_verified=1" without quotations. Only problem with just adding that I see is these videos always say sign in to unblock and adding &has_verified=1 to the end wont bypass it if you are not logged in. I am not sure there is an easy way around this issue that wouldn't involve adding login to youtube support. Anyway keep up the great work it is a highly useful program!

Update: I did notice that going to www.TubeOffline.com and entering the video in question with &has_verified=1 at the end it can be downloaded from there without issues. Perhaps its possible to just add that to blocked videos or all videos to get rid of the errors?

I had a similar problem that some videos required signing in or were not available in my country. I prefer to download such problem videos manually so I extended YouCast to read URLs from external file. YouCast creates an empty missing. file when it fails to get a link, I download video manually, put it to a local web server and add URL to the missing. file. YouCast reads the link form the file when my podcast application tries to download video next time.

Patch:

Index: YoutubeFeed.cs

--- YoutubeFeed.cs (revision 33) +++ YoutubeFeed.cs (working copy) @@ -134,19 +134,52 @@

     public void GetVideo(string videoId, string encoding)
     {

var resoultion = int.Parse(encoding.Remove(encoding.Length - 1).Substring(4));
var orderedVideos = DownloadUrlResolver.GetDownloadUrls(string.Format(VideoUrlFormat, videoId), false).
Where( => .VideoType == VideoType.Mp4).
OrderByDescending( => .Resolution).
ToList();
var video = orderedVideos.FirstOrDefault( => .Resolution == resoultion) ?? orderedVideos.First();
if (video.RequiresDecryption)
{
DownloadUrlResolver.DecryptDownloadUrl(video);

- }

WebOperationContext.Current.OutgoingResponse.StatusCode = HttpStatusCode.Redirect;
WebOperationContext.Current.OutgoingResponse.Headers["Location"] = video.DownloadUrl;
var resoultion = int.Parse(encoding.Remove(encoding.Length - 1).Substring(4));
var videoURL = "";
try
{
var orderedVideos = DownloadUrlResolver.GetDownloadUrls(string.Format(VideoUrlFormat, videoId), false).
Where( => .VideoType == VideoType.Mp4).
OrderByDescending( => .Resolution).
ToList();
var video = orderedVideos.FirstOrDefault( => .Resolution == resoultion) ?? orderedVideos.First();
if (video.RequiresDecryption)
{
DownloadUrlResolver.DecryptDownloadUrl(video);
}
videoURL = video.DownloadUrl;
}
catch (YoutubeExtractor.YoutubeParseException)
{
} +
var location = "";
var eraseFile = false;
var fileName = System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + "missing." + videoId;
try
{
location = Uri.EscapeUriString(System.IO.File.ReadAllText(fileName));
}
catch (System.IO.FileNotFoundException)
{
}
if (location == null || location.Length == 0)
{
location = videoURL;
eraseFile = true;
}
if (location == null || location.Length == 0)
{
System.IO.File.Create(fileName).Close();
}
else
{
if (eraseFile && System.IO.File.Exists(fileName))
System.IO.File.Delete(fileName);
}
WebOperationContext.Current.OutgoingResponse.StatusCode = HttpStatusCode.Redirect;

     WebOperationContext.Current.OutgoingResponse.Headers["Location"] = location;
}

#endregion

i3arnon / YouCast

Failed Downloads #2

Index: YoutubeFeed.cs

- }