Stuck on an issue?

Lightrun Answers was designed to reduce the constant googling that comes with debugging 3rd party libraries. It collects links to all the places you might be looking at while hunting down a tough bug.

And, if you’re still stuck at the end, we’re happy to hop on a call to see how we can help out.

Viki no video formats found

See original GitHub issue

Checklist

I’m reporting a broken site support
I’ve verified that I’m running yt-dlp version 2021.03.24.1
I’ve checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
I’ve checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
I’ve searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

Verbose log

[debug] Command-line config: ['-F', '--username', 'PRIVATE', '--password', 'PRIVATE', '--add-header', 'x-viki-app-ver:6.0.0', '--add-header', 'x-viki-as-id: 100005a', '--add-header', 'x-client-user-agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.183 Safari/537.36', '--sub-lang', 'en', '--sub-format', 'vtt', '--write-sub', '--allow-unplayable-formats', 'https://www.viki.com/videos/1161860v-the-best-hit-episode-1', '--verbose']
[debug] Loading archive file None
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref cp1252
[debug] yt-dlp version 2021.03.24.1
[debug] Python version 3.7.3 (CPython 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.19041-SP0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2, ffprobe 4.2
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[viki] Logging in
[viki] 1161860v: Downloading video JSON
[viki] 1161860v: Downloading video streams JSON
ERROR: No video formats found; please report this issue on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp  on how to update. Be sure to call yt-dlp with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\users\shivam\appdata\local\programs\python\python37\lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 1026, in wrapper
    return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "c:\users\shivam\appdata\local\programs\python\python37\lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 1047, in __extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "c:\users\shivam\appdata\local\programs\python\python37\lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 558, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "c:\users\shivam\appdata\local\programs\python\python37\lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\extractor\viki.py", line 378, in _real_extract
    self._sort_formats(formats)
  File "c:\users\shivam\appdata\local\programs\python\python37\lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 1667, in _sort_formats
    raise ExtractorError('No video formats found')
yt_dlp.utils.ExtractorError: No video formats found; please report this issue on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp  on how to update. Be sure to call yt-dlp with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.