Youtube Shorts Playlist on Channels will result in Zero Videos to Download.

[GregoriusT]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
• I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• I've searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

Verbose log

[youtube:tab] @tontarotaro: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: たろー - Shorts
[youtube:tab] Downloading page 1
[youtube:tab] playlist たろー - Shorts: Downloading 0 videos
[download] Finished downloading playlist: たろー - Shorts

Description

When trying to download all shorts of a channel, youtube-dl will think there is ZERO elements in the List of Videos to download. There is no Errors and the Verbosity of the Logs somehow does not increase, likely because of a lack of Error.

Here is a URL to test it with https://www.youtube.com/@tontarotaro/shorts

This Channel worked before, so it is Youtube doing nonsense again...

[dirkf]

No doubt this is the same problem as yt-dlp/yt-dlp#10936. There is also yt-dlp/yt-dlp#11130 which may indicate that further changes are needed to resolve the earlier issue.

Once the solution to #32905 is ready, we can back-port the fix for this.