youtube-dl: Yandex Music is broken

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

youtube-dl --rm-cache-dir --extract-audio https://music.yandex.ru/album/10130567/track/63591534

Removing cache dir ~/.cache/youtube-dl ..
[yandexmusic:track] 63591534: Downloading track JSON
[yandexmusic:track] 63591534: Downloading track location url JSON
[yandexmusic:track] 63591534: Downloading track location JSON
ERROR: An extractor error has occurred. (caused by KeyError('storageDir')); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

About this issue

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  • State: closed
  • Created 4 years ago
  • Comments: 16

Most upvoted comments

Yeah it does download complete tracks with that file filled with yandex cookies dumped from a logged in browser. That’s what I meant initially and you said “it doesn’t matter” so I assumed it just needed cookies to persist between requests.