yt-dlp: Crunchyroll cookie/login not working

The playback key does not exist anymore in episode json if the content is premium only, even if the person is logged in and has premium.

An alternate solution to check the premium state early would be to switch the mentioned check with not bucket.endswith("crunchyroll") (or maybe bucket.endswith("-")), but I cannot test these further. I have tried with 2 free accounts so far where it worked, but it might not be a stable solution.

diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/crunchyroll.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/crunchyroll.py
index 7d356d673..6dccdd883 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/crunchyroll.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/crunchyroll.py
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ def _real_extract(self, url):
         episode_response = self._download_json(
             f'{api_domain}/cms/v2{bucket}/episodes/{internal_id}', display_id,
             note='Retrieving episode metadata', query=params)
-        if episode_response.get('is_premium_only') and not episode_response.get('playback'):
+        if episode_response.get('is_premium_only') and not bucket.endswith('crunchyroll'):
             if self.is_logged_in:
                 raise ExtractorError('This video is for premium members only', expected=True)
             else:

As a side note, the requests in the browser use the objects endpoint now (https://www.crunchyroll.com/content/v2/cms/objects/{display_id}?locale={locale}). Maybe it would make sense to migrate to using that as well?

I went into the extractor and commented out the lines 157-158

if episode_response.get('is_premium_only') and not episode_response.get('playback'):
raise ExtractorError('This video is for premium members only.', expected=True)

now it works.

I also have this issue when I try to use my cookie file and when I pass my login information to yt-dlp. Austria Output:

[debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', '-u', 'PRIVATE', '-p', 'PRIVATE', '-o', '%(title)s.%(ext)s', '--skip-download', '--get-filename', 'https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GEVUZE024/excitement-the-halloween-costume-contest']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, pref UTF-8, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
[debug] yt-dlp version 2023.01.06 [6becd25] (zip)
[debug] Python 3.8.10 (CPython x86_64 64bit) - Linux-5.4.0-139-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.29 (OpenSSL 1.1.1f  31 Mar 2020, glibc 2.31)
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.7, ffprobe 4.2.7
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.17, certifi-2019.11.28, secretstorage-2.3.1, sqlite3-2.6.0
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Loaded 1760 extractors
[debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest
Latest version: 2023.01.06, Current version: 2023.01.06
yt-dlp is up to date (2023.01.06)
[crunchyroll] Getting session id
[crunchyroll] Logging in
[crunchyroll] Extracting URL: https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GEVUZE024/excitement-the-halloween-costume-contest
[crunchyroll] Retrieving main page
[crunchyroll] Authenticating with grant_type=etp_rt_cookie
[crunchyroll] Retrieving signed policy
[crunchyroll] excitement-the-halloween-costume-contest: Retrieving episode metadata
ERROR: [crunchyroll] GEVUZE024: This video is for premium members only.
  File "/usr/local/bin/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 680, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/crunchyroll.py", line 158, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError('This video is for premium members only.', expected=True)

I do indeed have premium and I am willing to share the account for testing purposes.

I have the same issue, but it only happens with some episodes.