Nothing Works

[kpirnie]

time="2024-09-06T11:45:03Z" level=error msg="youtube-dl error: /tmp/podsync-3604958398/-bdOQIy_0tw.%(ext)s" error="failed to execute youtube-dl: exit status 1"
time="2024-09-06T11:45:03Z" level=error msg="[youtube] -bdOQIy_0tw: Downloading webpage\n[youtube] -bdOQIy_0tw: Downloading android player API JSON\nWARNING: [youtube] YouTube said: ERROR - Precondition check failed.\nWARNING: [youtube] HTTP Error 400: Bad Request.

In error logs

[garlic-hub]

I was running into this because I was using mxpv/podsync docker image (2 years out of date) instead of the ghcr.io/mxpv/podsync image. Once I switched the issue was gone. The README.md needs to be updated

[garlic-hub]

See my PR here https://github.com/mxpv/podsync/pull/657

[Harnas]

Podsync uses yt-dlp to download from youtube. Last time, Youtube changes their policy, and now yt-dlp have problems with downloading. More about that https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10128

[muradjabir]

on docker: docker exec -it podsync yt-dlp -U This updates yt-dlp for your current instance only!

[brothamanben]

docker exec -it podsync yt-dlp -U

I did this but I'm still getting download errors, and asked to sign in to confirm that I'm not a bot

[jeffreygarc]

on docker: docker exec -it podsync yt-dlp -U This updates yt-dlp for your current instance only!

I had to run docker exec -it podsync /usr/bin/youtube-dl -U instead, and it works now.

[Dasnap]

I put together a docker-compose that includes the update step if anyone finds it helpful:

services:
  podsync:
    container_name: podsync
    image: ghcr.io/mxpv/podsync:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - 80:80
    volumes:
      - ./data:/data
      - ./config.toml:/app/config.toml
    entrypoint: /bin/sh
    command: -c "youtube-dl -U || echo 'Update failed, continuing...'; exec /app/podsync --config /app/config.toml"

Edit: This might actually be redundant if you enable yt-dlp self-updating in the config file.