[viki] HTTP Error 422: Unprocessable Entity

[debug] Command-line config: ['-v', 'https://www.viki.com/videos/1080865v', '--c
ookies', 'C:UsersNomaanDesktopcookies.txt']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref cp1252
[debug] yt-dlp version 2021.06.23
[debug] Python version 3.9.5 (CPython 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.19043-SP0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.4-full_build-www.gyan.dev, ffprobe 4.4-full_build
-www.gyan.dev
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] [viki] Extracting URL: https://www.viki.com/videos/1080865v
[viki] 1080865v: Downloading video JSON
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 422: Unprocessable Entity (c
aused by <HTTPError 422: 'Unprocessable Entity'>); please report this issue on
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp . Make sure you are using the latest version; s
ee  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp  on how to update. Be sure to call yt-dlp w
ith the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "C:\Users\Nomaan\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3
.9_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python39\site-packages\yt_dlp\extract
or\common.py", line 679, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "C:\Users\Nomaan\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3
.9_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python39\site-packages\yt_dlp\Youtube
DL.py", line 3089, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_3.9.152
0.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\lib\urllib\request.py", line 523, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_3.9.152
0.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\lib\urllib\request.py", line 632, in http_response
    response = self.parent.error(
  File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_3.9.152
0.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\lib\urllib\request.py", line 561, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_3.9.152
0.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\lib\urllib\request.py", line 494, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_3.9.152
0.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\lib\urllib\request.py", line 641, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)

[pukkandan]

Even the example videos seems to have DRM now. Unless someone can provide examples without DRM, the site will no longer be supported

but non drm still exist but using another method and android api

That is not the least bit helpful. Explain the method so that someone can have a look at implementing it @zackmark29

[zackmark29]

@pukkandan can you take a look? https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/473 the only need to fix there is the channel request but the subtitle and stream already fixed