youtube-dl: WARNING: Unable to look up account info: HTTP Error 404: Not Found on YouTube
Checklist
- I’m reporting a broken site support
- I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dl version 2020.06.16.1
- 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
[07/20/20 17:15:01] [debug] System config: []
[07/20/20 17:15:01] [debug] User config: []
[07/20/20 17:15:01] [debug] Custom config: []
[07/20/20 17:15:01] [debug] Command-line args: ['--newline', '-u', 'PRIVATE', '-p', 'PRIVATE', '--user-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0', '--all-subs', '-o', 'E:\\Videos\\%(uploader)s\\%(title)s-%(resolution)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s', '-v', '--ignore-config', '--hls-prefer-native', '--add-metadata', '-v', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exUnB1iGdME']
[07/20/20 17:15:01] [debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp1252, pref cp1252
[07/20/20 17:15:01] [debug] youtube-dl version 2020.06.16.1
[07/20/20 17:15:01] [debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.18362
[07/20/20 17:15:01] [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.3.2, ffprobe 3.3.2
[07/20/20 17:15:01] [debug] Proxy map: {}
[07/20/20 17:15:01] WARNING: Unable to look up account info: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
[07/20/20 17:15:01] ERROR: exUnB1iGdME: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data
[07/20/20 17:15:01] Traceback (most recent call last):
[07/20/20 17:15:01] File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpspbsbtmq\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 797, in extract_info
[07/20/20 17:15:01] File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpspbsbtmq\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 530, in extract
[07/20/20 17:15:01] File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpspbsbtmq\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 1893, in _real_extract
[07/20/20 17:15:01] youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: exUnB1iGdME: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data
[07/20/20 17:15:01]
Description
This issue occurs on age-restricted videos (in Korea you need to verify your age before you can watch these videos). I did confirm that I can log into the account using those credentials I provided, and the videos are indeed watchable (after verifying the age), but it doesn’t work on youtube-dl. What I’m confused about is that this issue didn’t appear before YouTube silently updated their system and that it says 404 Not Found instead of something like 400 Bad Request or 403 Forbidden. If you need help verifying the issue, let me know and I will do so.
About this issue
- Original URL
- State: closed
- Created 4 years ago
- Reactions: 3
- Comments: 33
According to git issue search, this is not a duplicate. Please re-open the issue. (other issues are referring to 403 error caused by outdated code, this is something else entirely)
Also now for whatever reason it’s stuck doing nothing, so I cannot test it again.
@remitamine duplicate of what?
Seems like he isn’t the only one with problems here…
youtube-dl --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"Just run youtube-dl with this user-agent to download age restricted videos now.
Anyway I don’t even know if this is a duplicate, I just know he has closed several hundred legitimate new issues as “duplicate” where no duplicate actually exists.
Guy is schizophrenic and gone crazy from moderating this bug tracker basically.
@remitamine, this is not the same duplicate (I’m assuming age-gate) issue and is indeed unique. This can be confirmed by trying to use -u -p or .netrc to authenticate to any Google service currently. This error is an example of what we see trying to authenticate to various Google (video, music, etc) “Premium” services that require account authentication - even with cookies used.
duplicate of what? seriously
@dardo82 it looked like you were asking a question.
@dardo82 cookies do not work for *this* issue.
@UnforeseenOcean
@dardo82
Can confirm I am getting the same warning. Specifying cookies nor switching user agents didn’t fix the issue for me either.