content not available on this app - change in user-agent

[mcarni]

i could not access any video due to youtube saying that the content was not available i followed some instructions for another kodi addon and I played around with the user-agent i basically modified functions.py and replaced the two instances of user-agent from: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0 to Mozilla/5.0 (Android 13; Mobile; rv:68.0) Gecko/68.0 Firefox/112.0

not sure if this could be a permanent fix, but it seems to be working fine so far

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[mintsoft]

Thanks, I've just got round to replying to your message on the forum. I'll make that change, or you can Pull-Request it in yourself if you would prefer?

[mcarni]

i forked your repo, modified the file and pull a request... let me know if it works...

[mintsoft]

Yep that's perfect

[mintsoft]

0.4.4 includes this change and will hopefully have fewer issues with "content not available" errors

[mintsoft]

0.4.4 has been released into the KODI addons repo now; it normally takes about 24 hrs before that appears for me in librelec

[mintsoft]

OK so 0.4.4 doesn't improve things for me. I've found that if I find a video through the YouTube app that doesn't work through YT channels; it also doesn't work. I'm pretty sure this is going to be a global problem with Kodi and Youtube. There is a huge thread on the youtube addon: https://github.com/anxdpanic/plugin.video.youtube/issues/442

[mintsoft]

Updating to 7.0.2-alpha7 has improved the situation however, available here: https://github.com/anxdpanic/plugin.video.youtube/releases/download/7.x.x-dev/plugin.video.youtube-7.0.2.alpha7.zip

[mintsoft]

Closing as it's not an issue with ytchannels, it's the youtube addon