[YouTube] Video is not possible to download [Only 360p & 720p Available]

[pootz10]

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Question

I'm very experienced user with youtube-dl all links I download used to work just fine, except today with the link below. https://youtu.be/-iZio70bd-M I've tried to download it (any quality format fails), check available formats It ends up telling HTTP 404 error

I require confirmation, is it a youtube-dl bug or youtube side problem?

Thanks in advance.

[dirkf]

Try playing it in the browser (fails for me, media URL gets 404 in Developer Tools).

Apparently some combined formats are giving 404 (eg, #30167). This video has no separate video and audio formats, only 18 and 22.

No-one seems to have reported this issue for yt-dlp yet: maybe the throttling fix also by-passes this. It would be interesting if the video played in the Android app but not in a PC browser.

The video also fails through an Invidious instance.

[pootz10]

dirkf, thank you for your reply. I've tried in the browser sometimes, the video is running fine. (Windows 10 x64 , Firefox 93.0) I've tried jdownloader and 3 youtube download sites, none was capable to download it.

[dirkf]

Is it really playing in FF now? If so, are you logged in to a G account?

You should be able to use the Network tab of the Developer Tools to see the media URL that is being used, and the request header that was used to fetch it, in case some special header was required.

[pootz10]

Strangely the video is not running now, at the moment I created the topic it was, I remember watching it part of it on the browser. (Yes I was logged in) All the preview frames on the timing bar are visible and I achieved the download of the video subtitle.

Well, I'm going to try it later, thanks for the tip.

Yesterday I downloaded all english subtitles of the entire playlist (this video too), but when I downloaded all the videos only this one failed, then I released the formats missing.

I used to use a .bat file to download with youtube-dl and I have cookies.txt all set up, it's the first time I see this issue.

[edited] I've check out the newest comments on the video and people from 9 hours ago couldn't play it, but 3 days ago could. What a unusual issue.

[pukkandan]

Defenitely not a youtube-dl issue. The video isnt available in any client

➤ yt-dlp --extractor-args youtube:player-client=all -vF --no-sim -f all --check-formats -- -iZio70bd-M
[debug] Command-line config: ['--extractor-args', 'youtube:player-client=all', '-vF', '--no-sim', '-f', 'all', '--check-formats', '--', '-iZio70bd-M']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, out utf-8, err utf-8, pref cp1252
[debug] yt-dlp version 2021.10.22 (source)
[debug] Lazy loading extractors is disabled
[debug] Plugins: ['SamplePluginIE', 'SamplePluginPP']
[debug] Git HEAD: 0930b11fd
[debug] Python version 3.9.6 (CPython 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.19043-SP0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-103892-g71f2a9a2e5-20210927, ffprobe N-103892-g71f2a9a2e5-20210927, phantomjs 2.1.1
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome, keyring, mutagen, sqlite, websockets
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] [youtube] Extracting URL: -iZio70bd-M
[youtube] -iZio70bd-M: Downloading webpage
[youtube] -iZio70bd-M: Downloading android player API JSON
[youtube] -iZio70bd-M: Downloading android agegate player API JSON
[youtube] -iZio70bd-M: Downloading android embedded player API JSON
[youtube] -iZio70bd-M: Downloading android music player API JSON
[youtube] -iZio70bd-M: Downloading android creator player API JSON
[youtube] -iZio70bd-M: Downloading web agegate player API JSON
[youtube] -iZio70bd-M: Downloading web_embedded config
[youtube] -iZio70bd-M: Downloading player 9216d1f7
[youtube] -iZio70bd-M: Downloading web embedded player API JSON
[youtube] -iZio70bd-M: Downloading web_music config
[youtube] -iZio70bd-M: Downloading web music player API JSON
[youtube] -iZio70bd-M: Downloading web creator player API JSON
[youtube] -iZio70bd-M: Downloading ios player API JSON
[youtube] -iZio70bd-M: Downloading ios agegate player API JSON
[youtube] -iZio70bd-M: Downloading ios embedded player API JSON
[youtube] -iZio70bd-M: Downloading ios music player API JSON
[youtube] -iZio70bd-M: Downloading ios creator player API JSON
[youtube] -iZio70bd-M: Downloading mweb player API JSON
[youtube] -iZio70bd-M: Downloading mweb agegate player API JSON
[debug] Sort order given by extractor: quality, res, fps, hdr:12, source, codec:vp9.2, lang
[debug] Formats sorted by: hasvid, ie_pref, quality, res, fps, hdr:12(7), source, vcodec:vp9.2(10), acodec, lang, filesize, fs_approx, tbr, vbr, abr, asr, proto, vext, aext, hasaud, id
[info] Available formats for -iZio70bd-M:
ID EXT RESOLUTION │ PROTO │ VCODEC      ACODEC    MORE INFO
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
17 3gp 256x144    │ https │ mp4v.20.3   mp4a.40.2 144p
18 mp4 640x360    │ https │ avc1.42001E mp4a.40.2 360p
22 mp4 1280x720   │ https │ avc1.64001F mp4a.40.2 720p
[info] Testing format 17
[info] Unable to download format 17. Skipping...
[info] Testing format 18
[info] Unable to download format 18. Skipping...
[info] Testing format 22
[info] Unable to download format 22. Skipping...
ERROR: [youtube] -iZio70bd-M: Requested format is not available

[dirkf]

Even the 144p format that yt-dl disdains is offline!

[edited] I've check out the newest comments on the video and people from 9 hours ago couldn't play it, but 3 days ago could. What a unusual issue.

That's the same timescale as issue #30167.

Given that YT's own players are affected, apparently someone at YT has done a Facebook, rather than combined formats being withdrawn because they were too useful.

[pootz10]

Thank you guys.