Nothing Works

[kpirnie]

time="2024-09-06T11:45:03Z" level=error msg="youtube-dl error: /tmp/podsync-3604958398/-bdOQIy_0tw.%(ext)s" error="failed to execute youtube-dl: exit status 1"
time="2024-09-06T11:45:03Z" level=error msg="[youtube] -bdOQIy_0tw: Downloading webpage\n[youtube] -bdOQIy_0tw: Downloading android player API JSON\nWARNING: [youtube] YouTube said: ERROR - Precondition check failed.\nWARNING: [youtube] HTTP Error 400: Bad Request.

In error logs

[garlic-hub]

I was running into this because I was using mxpv/podsync docker image (2 years out of date) instead of the ghcr.io/mxpv/podsync image. Once I switched the issue was gone. The README.md needs to be updated

[garlic-hub]

See my PR here #657

[Harnas]

Podsync uses yt-dlp to download from youtube. Last time, Youtube changes their policy, and now yt-dlp have problems with downloading. More about that yt-dlp/yt-dlp#10128

[muradjabir]

on docker: docker exec -it podsync yt-dlp -U
This updates yt-dlp for your current instance only!

[brothamanben]

docker exec -it podsync yt-dlp -U

I did this but I'm still getting download errors, and asked to sign in to confirm that I'm not a bot