Download media 404

[konamichou]

Several hours ago, downloading media files started resulting in 404 errors.
The update list is still working fine.
The system has been functioning properly for several months prior to this issue.
I've confirmed that there's sufficient quota remaining for the apk key.
Youcast 2.24.
August 9, 2024

[dirkschut]

My downloads have also started 404'ing since this morning. Feeds update fine, it's just the downloads that don't work anymore... @i3arnon I think youtube explode will need to be updated. V6.4 was released at the end of July https://github.com/Tyrrrz/YoutubeExplode/releases

[qtlin]

@dirkschut new release won't help, read an issue in YoutubeExplode project.
For YouCast to work properly it should allow passing either browser login cookie like yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser does or any other way to authenticate with youtube.

[dirkschut]

That sounds like a nightmare... And as far as I can see, yt-dlp recommends not sending existing cookies with your requests because they van have your accounts banned or something: yt-dlp/yt-dlp#10085 and yt-dlp/yt-dlp#10108

[oddtoddy]

Thanks for posting this. I thought it was just me.

[maxol18]

Hi @i3arnon

Do you kniw if this can be patched ?

Best regards

[oddtoddy]

Looks like YouTube Explode has been updated now
https://github.com/Tyrrrz/YoutubeExplode/releases/tag/6.4.2

[dirkschut]

Looks to me like the best solution would be to authenticate with OAuth to download the videos. Unfortunately, Youtube Explode doesn't currently support this, but from what I've read it can be done with yt-dlp (which is a console application) with this wrapper to use it in C#: https://github.com/Bluegrams/YoutubeDLSharp . That way we can still use the old explode code to get the feeds, but pass the downloads over to DLSharp to download the video, then pass that over to the client... Kinda cumbersome, but probably the easiest solution that currently exists...

Edit: I'll see if I can patch together a prototype over the weekend...
Edit2: Unfortunately I've been confined to my bead because of a concussion so I haven't been able to play around with this yet...