New exception in NewPipe 0.28.0 on the main screen

[Beurt]

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Affected version

0.28.0

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. launch Newpipe
2. go to trending page

Expected behavior

show the last trending videos

Actual behavior

Error message (with the 3 buttons to report, try again and open the browser). I have this behaviour since a few days only.

Screenshots/Screen recordings

No response

Logs

Exception

• User action: requested kiosk
• request: Start loading: https://www.youtube.com/feed/trending
• Content country: FR
• Content language: fr-
• App language: fr_FR
• service: YouTube
• timestamp: 2025-11-12T10:11:36.058+01:00
• package: org.schabi.newpipe
• service: YouTube
• version: 0.28.0
• os: Linux Android 15 - 35

Crash log

org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.exceptions.ParsingException: Could not get Trending name
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.extractors.kiosk.YoutubeTrendingExtractor.getName(youtubetrendingextractor.java:97)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.kiosk.KioskInfo.getInfo(kioskinfo.java:66)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.kiosk.KioskInfo.getInfo(kioskinfo.java:54)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.util.ExtractorHelper.lambda$getKioskInfo$12(extractorhelper.java:197)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.util.ExtractorHelper.$r8$lambda$2ahwdH5zUG2IizC29Cvn0G0d-Ek(extractorhelper.java:0)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.util.ExtractorHelper$$ExternalSyntheticLambda6.call(R8$$syntheticclass:0)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleFromCallable.subscribeActual(singlefromcallable.java:43)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Single.subscribe(single.java:4855)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleDoOnSuccess.subscribeActual(singledoonsuccess.java:35)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Single.subscribe(single.java:4855)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleSubscribeOn$SubscribeOnObserver.run(singlesubscribeon.java:89)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Scheduler$DisposeTask.run(scheduler.java:644)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.schedulers.ScheduledRunnable.run(scheduledrunnable.java:65)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.schedulers.ScheduledRunnable.call(scheduledrunnable.java:56)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(futuretask.java:317)
	at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(scheduledthreadpoolexecutor.java:348)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(threadpoolexecutor.java:1156)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(threadpoolexecutor.java:651)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(thread.java:1119)

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Affected Android/Custom ROM version

Android 15

Affected device model

Fairphone 5

Additional information

No response

[hollownights]

Yes, this issue started being discussed in #12762 a few hours ago.