youtube download raises 403 via ncdownloader & works when run from CLI

[bugsyb]

Running on latest :

• yt-dlp (2023.07.06)
• ncdownloader (1.0.20).

On some videos, trying to download YT link which works when run from CLI, raises failure via ncdownloader:

WARNING: [youtube] unable to extract initial player response; please report this issue on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using yt-dlp -U
WARNING: [youtube] unable to extract yt initial data; please report this issue on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using yt-dlp -U
ERROR:
[download] Got error: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden. Giving up after 10 retries
ERROR: fragment 1 not found, unable to continue
ERROR:
[download] Got error: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden. Giving up after 10 retries
ERROR: fragment 1 not found, unable to continue

Example link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywOJj7GmfsQ

[kck1001]

same for this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_V_ISMK368

[MinamiHasaki]

@bugsyb @kck1001 If YT-DLP works from the command line but not in Nextcloud, you can try setting the Youtube-dl binary location in Nextcloud to the one you use on the command line and see if that works. If you don't know where that is try using the whereis command.

[bugsyb]

After setting path manually - it worked. There is no other yt-dlp binary. Seems like ncdownloader doesn't check PATH and if yt-dlp is in /usr/local/bin/ it is not used showing weird 403 messages.

Is there a chance the user PATH variable would be checked to catch the /usr/local/bin based yt-dlp one?

[encryptedapple]

I had the same problem as solved it by specifying the path as /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp

I notice in the instructions it saves the file to youtube-dl. This did not work and resulted in the same error as above. Perhaps this is part of the issue? Just a hunch.

sudo apt install aria2
sudo curl -L https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/download/2022.05.18/yt-dlp 4 -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

[MinamiHasaki]

Is there a chance the user PATH variable would be checked to catch the /usr/local/bin based yt-dlp one?

I think NCDownloader is suppose to download the YT-DLP binary itself when you install the app and reference that one. Why it didn't do that, or did and didn't work? I have no idea. It could be what encryptedapple said.