[Solved] ABC [GO]: Unable to retrieve required files for playback.

Checklist

• I’m reporting a broken site support
• I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dl version 2020.05.08
• 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

$ youtube-dl --version
2020.05.08

$ youtube-dl https://abc.com/shows/the-goldbergs/episode-guide/season-07/22-the-fakeup -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: [u'--download-archive', u'/home/pat/archive-youtube-dl.txt', u'--retries', u'infinite', u'--fragment-retries', u'infinite', u'--abort-on-unavailable-fragment']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'https://abc.com/shows/the-goldbergs/episode-guide/season-07/22-the-fakeup', u'-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.05.08
[debug] Python version 2.7.17 (CPython) - Linux-4.15.0-96-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-18.04-bionic
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-95880-gd07d1c1, ffprobe N-95880-gd07d1c1, phantomjs 2.1.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Go] 22-the-fakeup: Downloading webpage
[Go] VDKA0_uixgx8ru: Downloading JSON metadata
[Go] VDKA0_uixgx8ru: Retrieving Media Token
[Go] VDKA0_uixgx8ru: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: Go said: 1025:Unable to retrieve required files for playback. Please try again in a few minutes.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 797, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 530, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/go.py", line 205, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError('%s said: %s' % (self.IE_NAME, error_message), expected=True)
ExtractorError: Go said: 1025:Unable to retrieve required files for playback. Please try again in a few minutes.

Description

These URL’s were working fine just a few weeks ago. This change seems to have happened recently?

[alma359]

This is still not fixed. Please merge the change!

[tmthywynn8]

This is because the method for retrieving the video ID has changed to a different key pair, so youtube-dl scrapes the wrong video ID—VDKA0_uixgx8ru instead of whatever the real ID is. Also is the reason for #25197, though why it’s asking for log-in credentials I have no idea.

Solution:

Open /youtube_dl/extractor/go.py, go to line 141, and change it to read:

                    r'\bvideoIdCode["\']\s*:\s*["\'](vdka\w+)'