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503 error from Youtube

See original GitHub issue

Every time I try to watch a youtube video the following message appears:

breadmaker@hostname:~$ livestreamer youtube.com/watch?v=tufY_UfHsow best
[cli][info] Found matching plugin youtube for URL youtube.com/watch?v=tufY_UfHsow
error: Unable to open URL: http://youtube.com/get_video_info (503 Server Error: Service Unavailable for url: http://ipv4.google.com/sorry/IndexRedirect?continue=http://youtube.com/get_video_info%3Fel%3Dplayer_embedded%26video_id%3DtufY_UfHsow&q=CGMSBL5fLXQYw9C2uAUiGQDxp4NLDKn_kPXhn7B7vUfn3HF6NlghoBoqSWh0dHA6Ly95b3V0dWJlLmNvbS9nZXRfdmlkZW9faW5mbz9lbD1wbGF5ZXJfZW1iZWRkZWQmdmlkZW9faWQ9dHVmWV9VZkhzb3c)

For the record, the video can be watched via broswer without problems.

Using livestreamer 1.12.2 with Debian 3.16.7-ckt25-2 (2016-04-08) x86_64 GNU/Linux

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Created 7 years ago
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ghostcommented, Apr 15, 2016

If use proper user-agent string, then it is accepted and working again! https://github.com/nitpicker/livestreamer/commit/d5d814fbf673c8bf62c5d34cfed824f8088e30a4

Save https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nitpicker/livestreamer/d5d814fbf673c8bf62c5d34cfed824f8088e30a4/src/livestreamer/plugins/youtube.py to your livestream plugin folder

Is it a profit or law issue??

[Edited] For guy who is unfamiliar with python, there is pre-built one at https://github.com/nitpicker/livestreamer/releases/download/untagged-781898b0704c7ac99ca2/livestreamer-1.12.2.win-amd64.zip (Python 2.7/Windows x64)

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saucecodecommented, Apr 28, 2016

Quicker solution: Run as: livestreamer --http-header "User-Agent"="UA" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=123

Where UA is a user agent string, such as that which appears at http://whatsmyuseragent.com/

This error comes because YouTube treats livestreamer’s HTTP requests as bot requests. The ipv4.google.com address that comes out with the error is a redirect to a captcha page. As far as I know there is no way for livestreamer to prompt a user to solve the captcha. Using a recognised user agent solves this problem.