error.api.content.video.unavailable while hosting own instance on aws

[dhawansolanki]

problem description

I'm encountering an error while trying to host Cobalt on my own instance. Here are the details: error.api.content.video.unavailable

POST : http://xx.xxx.xxx.xx:9000/ Body :

{
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/xxxxxxxxx"
}

{
    "status": "error",
    "error": {
        "code": "error.api.content.video.unavailable",
        "context": {
            "service": "youtube"
        }
    }
}

Steps I Followed to host my instance:

1. mkdir cobalt cd cobalt && nano docker-compose.yml

2. docker-compose.yml :

   services:
   cobalt-api:
       image: ghcr.io/imputnet/cobalt:10
       restart: unless-stopped
       container_name: cobalt-api
   
       init: true
   
       ports:
           - 9000:9000/tcp
           # if you're using a reverse proxy, uncomment the next line and remove the one above (9000:9000/tcp):
           #- 127.0.0.1:9000:9000
   
       environment:
           # replace https://api.cobalt.tools/ with your instance's target url in same format
           API_URL: "http://xx.xxx.xxx.xx/"
           # if you want to use cookies when fetching data from services, uncomment the next line and the lines under volume
           COOKIE_PATH: "/cookies.json"
           # see docs/run-an-instance.md for more information
       labels:
           - com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.scope=cobalt
   
       # if you want to use cookies when fetching data from services, uncomment volumes and next line
       volumes:
           - ./cookies.json:/cookies.json
   
   # update the cobalt image automatically with watchtower
   watchtower:
       image: ghcr.io/containrrr/watchtower
       restart: unless-stopped
       command: --cleanup --scope cobalt --interval 900 --include-restarting
       volumes:
           - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock

3. added cookies.json

4. docker compose up -d

Additional Context I followed the documentation carefully but still received the error. Able to download youtube videos on local machine, but when same thing is deployed on EC2 instance, it throws the above said error.

your instance configuration

AWS EC2 t2.medium
Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS

[KwiatekMiki]

did you at least try doing what i said on #844 before making this issue?

same answer, set up cookies for youtube.

https://github.com/imputnet/cobalt/issues/687#issuecomment-2293405845

and also you didn't provide any example links (which can be important sometimes) so you could've tried to download a region locked video