Why Generic Loader fails to load YouTube Audoio

[hsabaghpour]

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lready satisfied: idna<4,>=2.5 in /opt/anaconda3/envs/my_conda_venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages (from requests<3,>=2.31.0->yt-dlp) (3.7)
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWdyhFiyH0Y
[youtube] qWdyhFiyH0Y: Downloading webpage
WARNING: [youtube] unable to extract initial player response; please report this issue on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using yt-dlp -U
[youtube] qWdyhFiyH0Y: Downloading ios player API JSON
WARNING: [youtube] qWdyhFiyH0Y: Failed to parse JSON (caused by JSONDecodeError("Expecting value in '': line 1 column 1 (char 0)")); please report this issue on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using yt-dlp -U
[youtube] qWdyhFiyH0Y: Downloading iframe API JS
WARNING: [youtube] unable to extract player version; please report this issue on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using yt-dlp -U
[youtube] qWdyhFiyH0Y: Downloading web player API JSON
WARNING: [youtube] qWdyhFiyH0Y: Failed to parse JSON (caused by JSONDecodeError("Expecting value in '': line 1 column 1 (char 0)")); please report this issue on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using yt-dlp -U
ERROR: [youtube] qWdyhFiyH0Y: Failed to extract any player response; please report this issue on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using yt-dlp -U
ExtractorError Traceback (most recent call last)
File /opt/anaconda3/envs/my_conda_venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py:1606, in YoutubeDL._handle_extraction_exceptions..wrapper(self, *args, **kwargs)
1605 try:
-> 1606 return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
1607 except (DownloadCancelled, LazyList.IndexError, PagedList.IndexError):

File /opt/anaconda3/envs/my_conda_venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py:1741, in YoutubeDL.__extract_info(self, url, ie, download, extra_info, process)
1740 try:
-> 1741 ie_result = ie.extract(url)
1742 except UserNotLive as e:

File /opt/anaconda3/envs/my_conda_venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py:734, in InfoExtractor.extract(self, url)
732 self.to_screen('Extracting URL: %s' % (
733 url if self.get_param('verbose') else truncate_string(url, 100, 20)))
--> 734 ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
735 if ie_result is None:

File /opt/anaconda3/envs/my_conda_venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py:4145, in YoutubeIE._real_extract(self, url)
4143 webpage_url = base_url + 'watch?v=' + video_id
-> 4145 webpage, master_ytcfg, player_responses, player_url = self._download_player_responses(url, smuggled_data, video_id, webpage_url)
4147 playability_statuses = traverse_obj(
4148 player_responses, (..., 'playabilityStatus'), expected_type=dict)

File /opt/anaconda3/envs/my_conda_venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py:4109, in YoutubeIE._download_player_responses(self, url, smuggled_data, video_id, webpage_url)
...
1011 exc_info = sys.exc_info()
-> 1012 raise DownloadError(message, exc_info)
1013 self._download_retcode = 1

Provide verbose output that clearly demonstrates the problem

• Run your yt-dlp command with -vU flag added (yt-dlp -vU <your command line>)
• If using API, add 'verbose': True to YoutubeDL params instead
• Copy the WHOLE output (starting with [debug] Command-line config) and insert it below

Complete Verbose Output

[debug] Command-line config: ['-vU']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, pref UTF-8, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
[debug] yt-dlp version [email protected] from yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds [4093eb1fc] (pip)
[debug] Python 3.12.3 (CPython arm64 64bit) - macOS-14.5-arm64-arm-64bit (OpenSSL 3.0.13 30 Jan 2024)
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.20.0, brotli-1.1.0, certifi-2024.06.02, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.32.3, sqlite3-3.45.3, urllib3-2.2.1, websockets-12.0
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets
[debug] Loaded 1821 extractors
[debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds/releases/latest
Latest version: [email protected] from yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds
yt-dlp is up to date ([email protected] from yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds)
[youtube] Extracting URL : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWdyhFiyH0Y

[bashonly]

Looks like a networking issue, maybe firewall-related?

Can you watch the same Youtube video in a browser on the same computer on the same IP address / same networking setup?

[hsabaghpour]

Yes I can, I even could download the video and Audio, the error message says :
ERROR: Postprocessing: ffprobe and ffmpeg not found. Please install or provide the path using --ffmpeg-location

They are both already installed
╰─➤ which ffprobe
/opt/homebrew/bin/ffprobe
But still the code does not want to work, any comment? here is the code:

import os
os.environ['PATH'] += ':/opt/homebrew/bin/'

url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly8orBNiNQM"
save_dir="/Users/alexparsee/Desktop/YouTube/"

loader = GenericLoader(
YoutubeAudioLoader([url],save_dir),
OpenAIWhisperParser()
)

docs = loader.load()

and here the full run + error msg :

[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly8orBNiNQM
[youtube] ly8orBNiNQM: Downloading webpage
[youtube] ly8orBNiNQM: Downloading ios player API JSON
[youtube] ly8orBNiNQM: Downloading m3u8 information
[info] ly8orBNiNQM: Downloading 1 format(s): 140
[download] Destination: /Users/alexparsee/Desktop/YouTube//Architectural Design Process ｜ Form, Orientation and Sunlight.m4a
[download] 100% of 9.17MiB in 00:00:01 at 7.52MiB/s
WARNING: ly8orBNiNQM: writing DASH m4a. Only some players support this container. Install ffmpeg to fix this automatically
ERROR: Postprocessing: ffprobe and ffmpeg not found. Please install or provide the path using --ffmpeg-location

[bashonly]

try adding 'ffmpeg_location': '/opt/homebrew/bin' to your ydl opts