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Youtube :ytwatchlater [Broken]

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Checklist

  • I’m reporting a broken site support
  • I’ve verified that I’m running yt-dlp version 2021.06.09
  • 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: ['--verbose', '--cookies', 'cookies.txt', '--skip-download', ':ytwatchlater']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref cp1252
[debug] yt-dlp version 2021.06.09
[debug] Python version 3.8.0 (CPython 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.19041-SP0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg n4.4-19-g8d172d9409, ffprobe n4.4-19-g8d172d9409
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] [youtube:watchlater] Extracting URL: :ytwatchlater
[debug] [youtube:tab] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=WL
[youtube:tab] WL: Downloading webpage
[debug] [youtube:tab] Final URL: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=WL
[youtube:tab] WL: Downloading API JSON with unavailable videos
ERROR: YouTube said: The playlist does not exist.; 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 "d:\python\python38\lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 1133, in wrapper
    return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "d:\python\python38\lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 1154, in __extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "d:\python\python38\lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 567, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "d:\python\python38\lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\extractor\youtube.py", line 3642, in _real_extract
    info_dict = self.__real_extract(url, smuggled_data)
  File "d:\python\python38\lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\extractor\youtube.py", line 3742, in __real_extract
    data = self._reload_with_unavailable_videos(item_id, data, webpage) or data
  File "d:\python\python38\lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\extractor\youtube.py", line 3556, in _reload_with_unavailable_videos
    return self._extract_response(
  File "d:\python\python38\lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\extractor\youtube.py", line 3595, in _extract_response
    self._extract_and_report_alerts(response, expected=False)
  File "d:\python\python38\lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\extractor\youtube.py", line 3515, in _extract_and_report_alerts
    return self._report_alerts(self._extract_alerts(data), *args, **kwargs)
  File "d:\python\python38\lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\extractor\youtube.py", line 3512, in _report_alerts
    raise ExtractorError('YouTube said: %s' % errors[-1][1], expected=expected)
yt_dlp.utils.ExtractorError: YouTube said: The playlist does not exist.; 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 with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

Description

Trying to get a list of videos from my watchlater list, youtube-dl only listed 100 videos, googeling yt-dlp supposedly had this fixed but I’m getting this error instead.

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 2 years ago
  • Comments:9

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coletdjnzcommented, Jun 10, 2021

Awesome! I’ll get this fixed later. Thanks 😃

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jonisbcommented, Jun 10, 2021

Thanks, Seems to work now 😆 and I seem to get the full list that youtube-dl don’t give me.

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