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Spotty issues with YouTube downloads on main instance #548

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dumorando opened this issue Jun 7, 2024 · 9 comments
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Spotty issues with YouTube downloads on main instance #548

dumorando opened this issue Jun 7, 2024 · 9 comments
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@dumorando
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bug description
no yt videos will download. all of them say "this youtube video is unavailable. it could be age or region restricted. try another one!"

reproduction steps
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  1. go on cobalt.tools
  2. download this video: any video from youtube
  3. see error

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on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vclMrjci1rs for testing
same thing happens on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvCMv-oP8vc
and any other youtube link
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  • OS [e.g. iOS, windows] arch linux
  • browser [e.g. chrome, safari, firefox] firefox
  • version [e.g. 115] 126

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@dumorando dumorando added the bug Something isn't working label Jun 7, 2024
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lyh1028 commented Jun 7, 2024

same error

@lostdusty
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youtube seems to be ratelimiting cobalt. try other instances in https://instances.hyper.lol

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@wukko wukko changed the title Every Youtube video is unavailable Spotty issues with YouTube downloads on main instance Jun 7, 2024
@wukko wukko added needs fixing main instance issue issue is only present on the main cobalt instance and removed bug Something isn't working labels Jun 7, 2024
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wukko commented Jun 7, 2024

ratelimiting cobalt

not sure if that's the case, i feel like ipv6 network is dying yet again

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pr4j3sh commented Jun 7, 2024

I couldn't agree less. Youtube is rate limiting cobalt!
I tried to download this from here, and cobalt says that the video is unavailable. Hence, I tried the one of the other instance and voila, it works!

Thanks to @lostdusty for this.

Hereby I'm also attaching a screenshot for the same.

Screenshot from 2024-06-07 12-44-00

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wukko commented Jun 7, 2024

seems like invidious is also affected: iv-org/invidious#4734

@wukko wukko added the bug Something isn't working label Jun 7, 2024
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wukko commented Jun 7, 2024

main instance seems to be fine now, will close this issue and open it back up if google goes back to tormenting services that use innertube api

@wukko wukko closed this as completed Jun 7, 2024
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wukko commented Jun 7, 2024

spoke too soon 😭
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@wukko wukko reopened this Jun 7, 2024
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wukko commented Jun 7, 2024

recreated the issue with more information and no guesses: #551

@wukko wukko closed this as not planned Won't fix, can't repro, duplicate, stale Jun 7, 2024
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