/videoplayback 403 - Piped not playing videos

[probatschool2]

Official Instance

• [x] The bug is reproducible on the official hosted instance, or is API-related.

Describe the bug

For some reason the videos dont load and I cant watch piped. I primarily use piped cause youtube is blocked and this piped link is just about one of the only ones not blocked. If someone can please help me with this it would be much appriciated!

To Reproduce

i honestly dont know how to reproduce this bug

Expected behavior

I expected to be able to watch the youtube videos I want to.

Logs/Errors

No response

Browser, and OS with Version.

I use google and i think I may use chrome os beacuse Im on my school chrome book and use it.

Additional context

No response

[alejandro-alzate]

same issue here; mine is reproducible on the lastest libretube client of fdroid with the instance piped.yt my suspicious is that instances are being bot-blocked correct me if the case. Unrelated to the bug, how can i run an instance for my people if theres an article for this please link it to me.

Edit: changing instance seems fruitless , does load thumbnails cover art and personalized feed (A.k.a. subscriptions), selecting a video loads description title and comments, No playback whatsoever. i'm running libretube v0.16.1 on a modified samsung s9 running lineageOS 20 (Android 13), no gapps installed, still, if i'm somewhat usefull, tell me.

Edit 2: I take the changing instance seems fruitless back, instance whatever.social fuctions normally, However If you try my solution please spread out so we don't acidentally DDoS the working instances.

[DarkCat09]

The same issue with my ytapi.dc09.ru instance.

Proxy returns 403 Forbidden on every video stream request. I mean previews and channel avatars are succesfully loaded, but URLs from videoStreams and audioStreams are not.

I'll update API and proxy, and then edit this comment if anything changed.
Upd: bug still exists in the latest version.

[DarkCat09]

Found the same issue in Invidious repo, and it have been already fixed: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4045#issuecomment-1674373088

[DarkCat09]

Fix in NewPipeExtractor: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor/pull/1084

[DarkCat09]

This bug still exists even on the latest Piped-Backend commit.

[fahim44]

no instance work right now. For example: GET https://watchproxy-nl.whatever.social/videoplayback returns 403.

[probatschool2]

I dont know all these terms yall use like instances and stuff like that i m only in 9th grade just trying to find a unblocked youtube to use

[ReduxFlakes]

@probatschool2 To put it simply, YouTube has blocked access to Piped proxy from connecting to YouTube and thus not being able to play videos as far as I know.

[Qaz-6]

https://api.piped.projectsegfau.lt It works

[alejandro-alzate]

instance whatever.social broke, i migrated to [REDACTED] but broke as well WHILE writing this down

[DarkCat09]

@FireMasterK, could you update your Extractor fork? https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor/pull/1084

[probatschool2]

sadly the website https://api.piped.projectsegfau.lt/ is blocked and not working for me they have it blocked by category on my computer. Btw if yall can please give me links to any other fake youtubes for things that may be unblocked it would be much appriciated thank you

[FireMasterK]

@FireMasterK, could you update your Extractor fork? TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#1084

This is unrelated and we already have this commit.

[Qaz-6]

Now all instances are working.Sometimes it still doesn't work.

[smol-loli]

Cannot confirm this. Tested the offical, piped.adminforge.de and piped.smnz.de and they all don't work.

[lmenale]

Still doesn't work

[Dominion0815]

yes still broken. I think google blocked again. piped.adminforge.de is now running with privoxy/wireguard vpn and it works but the performance is realy bad.

[DarkCat09]

piped.mha.fi and project segfault work.

I don't know how, but if Google actually banned proxy IPs, I can request other address from my hoster for dc09.ru instance. Will it help?

[LavellanDWR]

The official libre instance works

[blacklight]

@n-ce if Google is straight away banning IP addresses of ytproxy servers is it really worth? It may just be a matter of time before those servers get banned too, if they use static addresses (unless this was a one-off stunt from their side). Maybe it'd be more helpful to compile a list of instances that will start adopting rotating IP addresses, if it really turns out that Google is blacklisting requests on an IP basis.

As a Piped instance admin I think I'm pretty much done from my side - I've played this cat-and-mouse game with Google for too long and I don't want to invest time to give my server a dynamic IP because that server is also used for other stuff. But I'm happy to support anyone who embarks into this new challenge.

[DarkCat09]

@BlackLight, if I understood everything correctly, Google detected IPs by the deprecated API requests. Your IP address will be blocked only if something like #2487 or #2809 happen again.

[giselle-campos]

This is informative and unfortunate...

[gamer191]

YouTube has blocked access to Piped proxy from connecting to YouTube

Have they though? Do youtube videos work in a browser on the same server, or is there something more to it? (~~EDIT: there is something more to it, at least according to https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/7860#issuecomment-1681243045~~ nevermind, they were using an outdated version of yt-dlp)

[Flywall]

Hello, For me, no video is readable, I saw those messages in console on video page (e.g. https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=S-OgkNgxm3k) :

Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource.
Blocage d’une requête multiorigine (Cross-Origin Request) : la politique « Same Origin » ne permet pas de consulter la ressource distante située sur https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/v8b253dfea2ab4077af8c6f58422dfbfd1689876627854. Raison : échec de la requête CORS. Code d’état : (null).
Aucun des hachages « sha512 » de l’attribut « integrity » ne correspond au contenu de la sous-ressource. Le hachage calculé est « z4PhNX7vuL3xVChQ1m2AB9Yg5AULVxXcg/SpIdNs6c5H0NE8XYXysP+DGNKHfuwvY7kxvUdBeoGlODJ6+SfaPg== ». watch
XHRGET
https://pipedapi.kavin.rocks/streams/S-OgkNgxm3k
[HTTP/3 502 Bad Gateway 51ms]

EmeEncryptionSchemePolyfill: Waiting to detect encryptionScheme support. shaka-player.ui-f6360940.js:1:431327
McEncryptionSchemePolyfill: Waiting to detect encryptionScheme support. shaka-player.ui-f6360940.js:1:433039
Blocage d’une requête multiorigines (Cross-Origin Request) : la politique « Same Origin » ne permet pas de consulter la ressource distante située sur https://pipedapi.kavin.rocks/streams/S-OgkNgxm3k. Raison : l’en-tête CORS « Access-Control-Allow-Origin » est manquant. Code d’état : 502.
Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource.
Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: e is undefined
    fetchSponsors https://piped.kavin.rocks/assets/WatchVideo-312c8ba7.js:1
    fetchSponsors https://piped.kavin.rocks/assets/WatchVideo-312c8ba7.js:1
    getSponsors https://piped.kavin.rocks/assets/WatchVideo-312c8ba7.js:1
    mounted https://piped.kavin.rocks/assets/WatchVideo-312c8ba7.js:1
    Mt https://piped.kavin.rocks/assets/index-9fbaa647.js:1
    Qt https://piped.kavin.rocks/assets/index-9fbaa647.js:1
    rt https://piped.kavin.rocks/assets/index-9fbaa647.js:1
    __weh https://piped.kavin.rocks/assets/index-9fbaa647.js:1
    ku https://piped.kavin.rocks/assets/index-9fbaa647.js:1
    Cu https://piped.kavin.rocks/assets/index-9fbaa647.js:1
WatchVideo-312c8ba7.js:1:29312

[n-ce]

Issue seems to be fixed. Tested on :

• piped.video
• garudalinux.org (edit : failing with authorisation errors)
• privacydev.net
• adminforge.de

[d4rklynk]

Hi, is changing the server IP the only solution rn ?

[r1klz]

Issue seems to be fixed. Tested on :

* piped.video

* garudalinux.org (edit : [failing with authorisation errors](https://piped-proxy.garudalinux.org/videoplayback?expire=1692527517&ei=PZfhZICQN7KH6dsPsayZmA4&ip=116.202.208.112&id=o-AE9-zwDnCVqb7n7bf_8dcOorKLOYAE7VnPGOkWTzZSfe&itag=249&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&mh=BW&mm=31%2C26&mn=sn-4g5ednz7%2Csn-h0jeenl6&ms=au%2Conr&mv=m&mvi=4&pl=17&initcwndbps=520000&spc=UWF9f_N1Jb5brb9vJHaIqmRVXlew_n8&vprv=1&svpuc=1&mime=audio%2Fwebm&gir=yes&clen=2704356&dur=408.381&lmt=1574756811747966&mt=1692505501&fvip=3&keepalive=yes&fexp=24007246%2C24362685%2C51000023&beids=24350017&c=ANDROID&txp=5531432&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cspc%2Cvprv%2Csvpuc%2Cmime%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=AOq0QJ8wRQIgZiP4wUo7xEbUpqPbCgYNV5rzkOQz0BXBf7c3xxRj2AMCIQCrdEIg_Bu2bv_oKtUAWmZYKGpk9wH0aR8j-BrMRnRnFw%3D%3D&lsparams=mh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=AG3C_xAwRQIgPaoRwPCLvFKbHArgyzRJnFNk1VQPUQB5D9-eKoV8AEICIQCwThDeP1iNTpUto6-oYIxSLPua-sQ0S6zyFgy_K5hyeA%3D%3D&cpn=PVKoetfzkY2YJIOh&host=rr4---sn-4g5ednz7.googlevideo.com))

* privacydev.net

* adminforge.de

Moreover

• kavin.rocks
• mha.fi
• kavin.rocks libre
• smnz.de
• qdi.fi
• frontendfriendly.xyz
• piped.yt
• drgns.space

proxies; are working and connecting too!

[drgns-wtd]

Piped proxy just stoped working for drgns.space :( For now I put piped-proxy behind a VPN to get it working :+1:

[FireMasterK]

Hi, is changing the server IP the only solution rn ?

You can use a VPN. That's what the official instance currently does.

[d4rklynk]

I can install a VPN on my instance if needed yeah. But it always will be the same IP, I'm not sure I can change servers.