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Create a ZIM file from a Youtube channel/username/playlist
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Madrasa channel recipe failure #176

Closed RavanJAltaie closed 1 year ago

RavanJAltaie commented 1 year ago

This recipe is failing for long time https://farm.openzim.org/recipes/madrasa

I tried all the large content APIs with no success, changed the parameter channel to user with no success. Please check.

rgaudin commented 1 year ago

I see that the recipe never worked and never lasted more than 20 seconds. This mean it fails to even start. It should have been disabled then.

If you look at the log it says ERROR:Invalid usernameMadrasa: Not Found

I've checked and indeed it's a youtube scraper issue. We cant seem to query this channel via the API using its name. It looks like a bug/limitation of the Youtube API. See #177

By looking for channel_id= in the source code of the YT page, I found its internal id to be UCq0wtwcAmYtS3VUCgh1BWAg. Please use this as channelId in recipe.