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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon KeluDiao

Some Videos aren't downloading

Open Dbone29 opened this issue 8 years ago • 1 comments

Some times gotube only creates a null byte file. For example when I try to download this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0v9n5RQRto I came from germany. Maybe this information could help... I can watch this video without a problem in the browser.

Dbone29 avatar Sep 03 '16 20:09 Dbone29

Hi Daniel,

Thank you for reporting this issue. I have looked into it but couldn't find anything that can lead to this problem.

If you check the source file of the YouTube page, you can see a bunch of stream media urls in the json structure "ytplayer.config = {xxx}". The urls for this given video is as structured as the others which don't have this problem.

This mechanism of YouTube is a black box for us. We wouldn't know how YouTube deals with these urls and why some of them work but some don't. I'll keep looking into it, but I cannot guarantee that this problem can be solved in a short time, or ever.

lukecold avatar Sep 05 '16 23:09 lukecold