ytarchive: "No video information found, somehow" error when using cookies

Seemingly out of nowhere, I’m unable to use the --cookies command on ytarchive with any success. When using --cookies, every video I attempt to download throws me this error. --verbose and --debug don’t give any further information either.

Using a random public video as an example:

WARNING: Failed to retrieve data from https://www.youtube.com/get_video_info?video_id=-3Ns_n_7QzU&el=detailpage: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
WARNING: No video information found, somehow

If I don’t use --cookies, I can download it no problem but that doesn’t solve the problem of being able to record unarchived members-only streams which is what I prefer using ytarchive for. I’ve attempted this on two different computers with the same result. Additionally, I use yt-dlp for all non-live archiving and it’s recording members-only livestreams without an issue so I know it’s not my cookies. Something similar happened to me with youtube-dl months ago and I think it turned out to be on YouTube’s backend that changed but not for everyone at once.

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  • State: closed
  • Created 3 years ago
  • Comments: 16 (9 by maintainers)

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Interestingly enough I was getting this same issue with Streamlink just last night. Consistently failed if I had it set to wait for a stream, but worked if the stream was already running.

Will look into this.