Unable to download the YouTube channel member video

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Checklist

  • I’m reporting a broken site support
  • I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
  • 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

C:\Users\OWNER\Music\youtube-dl>youtube-dl -v --cookies cookies.txt -f best --external-downloader aria2c --external-downloader-args "-j 16 -x 16 -s 16 -k 1M" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCy7s-c5xAw
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '--cookies', 'cookies.txt', '-f', 'best', '--external-downloader', 'aria2c', '--external-downloader-args', '-j 16 -x 16 -s 16 -k 1M', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCy7s-c5xAw']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp949, fs mbcs, out cp949, pref cp949
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.19041
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.4-full_build-www.gyan.dev, ffprobe 4.4-full_build-www.gyan.dev
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] MCy7s-c5xAw: Downloading webpage
WARNING: [youtube] MCy7s-c5xAw: Failed to parse JSON Unterminated string starting at: line 1 column 60361 (char 60360)
[youtube] MCy7s-c5xAw: Downloading API JSON
ERROR: This video is available to this channel's members on level: TEAM AAAA (or any higher level). Join this channel to get access to members-only content and other exclusive perks.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpupik7c6w\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 815, in wrapper
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpupik7c6w\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 836, in __extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpupik7c6w\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 534, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpupik7c6w\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 1731, in _real_extract
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: This video is available to this channel's members on level: TEAM AAAA (or any higher level). Join this channel to get access to members-only content and other exclusive perks.

Description

Trying to download the YouTube members only video, and unable to download the video. I’m currently a member of the channel, and able to watch the YouTube video at the website. I downloaded the most recent cookies and applied it on the script.

I’m able to download the other videos that do not require “members only” using Youtube-dl. I was able to download the members only video about two weeks ago without a problem.

Issue Analytics

  • State:open
  • Created a year ago
  • Comments:14 (12 by maintainers)

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pukkandancommented, Jun 6, 2022

FYI, yt-dlp’s implementation has been changed to use a custom decoder. https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/b7c47b743871cdf3e0de75b17e4454d987384bf9

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