[Sonatine]

Originally Posted by enjikari

Have you recently tried downloading YT videos? As in, in the last hour or so? I'm trying now, no luck.. Beginning to think it IS just me..

I think it may be - I'm currently downloading from YouTube as I type this (with the exception of the members-only videos in my list which still don't work, but it was indicated earlier by staff this would still be an issue).

[enjikari]

Originally Posted by Sonatine

I think it may be - I'm currently downloading from YouTube as I type this (with the exception of the members-only videos in my list which still don't work, but it was indicated earlier by staff this would still be an issue).

Hmmm... well I' glad it's working for some folks. I put a log in, maybe a mod can look into it.

06.09.24 21.29.45 <--> 06.09.24 21.44.28 jdlog://8835411370661/

[rogerjo69]

I just updated my jdownloader and it looks like it working for some videos but I can't download any age restricted youtube videos even though my cookie account i'm using is above the age limit I just keep getting the message "temporarily unavailable"

[JDmurphy]

Originally Posted by rogerjo69

cookie account

Reading the last page at the very least is always a good idea ...

[pseudopod]

Regular videos now work but ones which need a login and cookies are still "temporarily unavailable". I hope this isn't permanent.

[RedViper]

I don't want to advertise anything. But so far the "4K Video Downloader" app has worked for me. While they work hard to fix this problem for JDownloader2; I'll be using 4K Video Downloader as long as it works.
I don't want to be optimistic because it's from a company with several apps, which even had to cancel a project [Stogram] due to the flaws it represented. And since social media platforms change a lot; this solution might not last long. In fact, "4K Video Downloader" has given me problems in the past and some updates do not fix the current bugs. But so far the current version has allowed me to download YouTube videos without errors.

For the moderators and managers; if this post breaks any rules [obviously] you can edit or delete it. My intentions are only to provide a temporary solution to those who need to download videos from YouTube.

Thank you

[rapido]

Automatisch repariert oder was hast Du gemach? Herzlichen Dank!

[rendo]

I'm convinced that the recent YouTube update is a major update to Google's services, including YouTube and Google Photos.

Because a phenomenon very similar to the YouTube download issue also occurred with Google Photos.

I used to create a program in Python that would save private image files uploaded to Google Photos by album.
Just like the current JD2, it used cookie information to achieve a pseudo-login, and I was able to obtain and download the page source just by entering the URL of the album page.
At some point, it became impossible to obtain the page source.
So I changed it so that I could open the album page in the browser, copy the source, and then run the program.

However, around the same time as the recent issue with JD2 downloading from YouTube, downloading from Google Photos became possible only via the browser.

Previously, files that required login information could be downloaded as long as you knew the URL of the image file.
However, now that third-party programs and external access are completely blocked, downloading is not possible even with cookie information.
This is very similar to the phenomenon where JD2 can no longer be used to save private videos that you have posted to YouTube.

I don't know if it's to limit downloads and reduce server load, or to eliminate security risks, but I suspect that Google has some intention behind making these strict and major changes to access.

In the future, it may become impossible to download videos that require login information.
I think this is a problem that cannot be solved even by updating the JD2 program.
The only way I can download my private videos is to click the options button for each video on the content page in YouTube STUDIO and select download.
However, this only allows me to save videos in HD quality (720p).

Finally, I would like to thank the JD2 staff for their continued hard work.

[wppcproductions]

Now getting an error saying Sign in to confirm you're not a bot.

06.09.24 17.42.35 <--> 07.09.24 10.43.08 jdlog://9045411370661/

That came up when im trying to download 10 plus videos at once .

[Wheezer]

FWIW on the YT download situation. I have it working now (sort of).
They appear to be tracking access/download requests and throttling or disabling based on their own rules.

A few things that appear to help are:

1) Do not grab links while downloading. Too much activity ends in downloads being "unavailable". If that happens, then WAIT for the block to timeout.

2) Set a low chunk rate and low simultaneous downloads. That is 1 chunk and 4 simultaneous or 2 chunks and 2 simultaneous. Too much at once seems to lead to failures.

3) Keep a private session in a different browser program open to get your cookies. Don't use it for anything else. Even with that YT may drop your account for no reason. If so, then refresh browser session, grab cookies again, refresh YT account and some unavailable downloads may come back to life.

Nothing major, but that might help some who are getting YT failures.

Cheers!
...W...

[CRX_Fan]

Bei mir gehts jetzt auch wieder

[wppcproductions]

The ban was lifted .

After a couple of hours downloading 1050 files and 4062 videos to go.
The settings are 7 files at once and the speed limit is set to 1.50 mbps.

And again getting the same error Sign in to confirm you're not a bot. BS again.

No offense to JDownloader and its team .Its not your fault. Its the evil google and its YT..
Cant wait for the breakup of that corrupt corp..

[wppcproductions]

Originally Posted by Wheezer

FWIW on the YT download situation. I have it working now (sort of).
They appear to be tracking access/download requests and throttling or disabling based on their own rules.

A few things that appear to help are:

1) Do not grab links while downloading. Too much activity ends in downloads being "unavailable". If that happens, then WAIT for the block to timeout.

2) Set a low chunk rate and low simultaneous downloads. That is 1 chunk and 4 simultaneous or 2 chunks and 2 simultaneous. Too much at once seems to lead to failures.

3) Keep a private session in a different browser program open to get your cookies. Don't use it for anything else. Even with that YT may drop your account for no reason. If so, then refresh browser session, grab cookies again, refresh YT account and some unavailable downloads may come back to life.

Nothing major, but that might help some who are getting YT failures.

Cheers!
...W...

Thanks for the tips....

[wppcproductions]

Ran for about couple of hours.

Now getting a Temporary unavailable error.

Log

07.09.24 18.06.53 <--> 07.09.24 18.03.25 jdlog://1245411370661/

[Wheezer]

Originally Posted by wppcproductions

Ran for about couple of hours.

Now getting a Temporary unavailable error.

Log

07.09.24 18.06.53 <--> 07.09.24 18.03.25 jdlog://1245411370661/

More FWIW on the YT stuff, this is just from observation.
It now seems that they are tracking based on user login.

Last night I went to renew the cookies and got an account unavailable error, with a 60 minute timeout. No amount of cookie refresh could fix it.

However you CAN get around it:

1) Create a second YT account with a new user ID, email, profile over 18, etc.
2) Start a new private session in an alternate browser program. Log in to YT with your second account in the second browser application
3) Use the second account user ID/email and cookies in account manager.
4) Everything should work fine ... until is doesn't.

5) After failure, start a private session in yet another browser program.
6) Using that other browser application, log in to YT with your first account, capture cookies and use the first user ID/email and cookies in JD account manager.
7) Everything should work fine ... until is doesn't.

8) At that point, swap back to your other YT account.
9) Alternate as necessary or on a daily basis.

Cheers!
...W...

[wppcproductions]

Originally Posted by Wheezer

More FWIW on the YT stuff, this is just from observation.
It now seems that they are tracking based on user login.

Last night I went to renew the cookies and got an account unavailable error, with a 60 minute timeout. No amount of cookie refresh could fix it.

However you CAN get around it:

1) Create a second YT account with a new user ID, email, profile over 18, etc.
2) Start a new private session in an alternate browser program. Log in to YT with your second account in the second browser application
3) Use the second account user ID/email and cookies in account manager.
4) Everything should work fine ... until is doesn't.

5) After failure, start a private session in yet another browser program.
6) Using that other browser application, log in to YT with your first account, capture cookies and use the first user ID/email and cookies in JD account manager.
7) Everything should work fine ... until is doesn't.

8) At that point, swap back to your other YT account.
9) Alternate as necessary or on a daily basis.

Cheers!
...W...

Hi Wheezer.. Thanks for your tips. I have a few YT accounts .I never had to put any of my account info in JDownloader since its been running fine without it..

Its working fine now but I think I overload it with to many downloads at the same time and with the full bandwidth of my fiber ISP.

The mass downloading was overloading YT's server as it was flying through the files very fast as their server went to the autoprotect mode.


Most of the files in this batch of 5500 files are average of 3mb to 25mb .
I got the speed limit to 1mb and file setting to 5 files at once.Chunk rate is set to 1 chunk..

Got about 550 more to go .It should be done within 2 hour as long i dont get shut down..

I apologize to the Dev team since if it was more of a user problem.



Take care.

Update.getting Sign in to confirm you're not a bot.

Looks like a PITA to figure out how to sign in on with JDownloader since I never done it with anything yet.
The cookie thing looks like a nightmare to figure it out..

[Wheezer]

Originally Posted by wppcproductions

Looks like a PITA to figure out how to sign in on with JDownloader since I never done it with anything yet.
The cookie thing looks like a nightmare to figure it out..

If it works for you without an account, then have at it.

If you need to use an account with JD, then it is not that difficult.

1) Start a browser program different than your main program. In that program add a cookie capture extension. I have had good success with "EditThisCookie". Make sure to enable the extension to run in private mode.

2) In the different browser program, start a private session and log in to YT. From the main YT page press the EditThisCookie icon and use the right arrow to export cookies. You will see a message stating "Cookies copied to clipboard"

3) In the JD account manager, select YouTube as the account. For the USERNAME enter your user ID or email for that account. For PASSWORD, select the stars and use PASTE to drop in the cookies. That's it. All done.

4) If the YT account times out, just refresh the private YT browser page, grab the cookies again and paste into JD. Refresh time takes maybe 15 seconds.

I've found that using a private window with a second account in a different browser program seems to work well. Just leave that windows alone and don't do anything with that account in other browsers. It may work differently based on OS, browser program, phase of the moon or other factors. This just seems to work for me.

Cheers!
...W...

[wppcproductions]

Originally Posted by Wheezer

If it works for you without an account, then have at it.

If you need to use an account with JD, then it is not that difficult.

1) Start a browser program different than your main program. In that program add a cookie capture extension. I have had good success with "EditThisCookie". Make sure to enable the extension to run in private mode.

2) In the different browser program, start a private session and log in to YT. From the main YT page press the EditThisCookie icon and use the right arrow to export cookies. You will see a message stating "Cookies copied to clipboard"

3) In the JD account manager, select YouTube as the account. For the USERNAME enter your user ID or email for that account. For PASSWORD, select the stars and use PASTE to drop in the cookies. That's it. All done.

4) If the YT account times out, just refresh the private YT browser page, grab the cookies again and paste into JD. Refresh time takes maybe 15 seconds.

I've found that using a private window with a second account in a different browser program seems to work well. Just leave that windows alone and don't do anything with that account in other browsers. It may work differently based on OS, browser program, phase of the moon or other factors. This just seems to work for me.

Cheers!
...W...

Thanks again Wheezer for your help.

I'll look into it ..It looks easy as you explained it..

Its running after the couple hours stop...
I only do bulk YT downloads a few times a month when i do a complete channel download.

Other then that I only do about 25 videos daily.

Take care...

[Chicken++]

Thanks for working on fixing the YT downloader so quickly.



...Is this a bad time to point out that some playlists also aren't working properly? ^_^;;

I've noticed that JDownloader has a problem with some playlists when it is trying to get more than the first 100 videos from them, resulting in a "Plugin defect" error, and not a single video from that list parsed.

This would be somewhat manageable, if restricting the playlist/channel crawler max limit to "100" circumvented the issue (I often have it set to "-1"), but it doesn't for playlists where one or more of the first 100 videos are skipped (as a duplicate).

I found that out by changing the crawler max limit around and noticing that an affected list with 1 duplicate video would work for crawler max limit 99, but not 100. And as mentioned, crawler set to "-1" fails on even more lists.

As you can imagine, when downloading a lot of playlists, many of them will have removed/deleted/duplicate videos, and thus will fail because of this.


Or is that something that only happens for me? I just updated my JDownloader before posting this, so I do have the current version.

EXAMPLE PLAYLIST with 1 duplicate in the first 100 videos: **External links are only visible to Support Staff****External links are only visible to Support Staff**

[pspzockerscene]

@Chicken++
Can't reproduce. Enable debug mode and provide a debug-log.

Please post your log-ID here
If your report is about a specific website which JD supports via plugin, please also provide example URLs which can be used to reproduce the issue you are having.
If your report is related to a login specific problem with a plugin supported website, enable debug mode before creating logs, see previously linked instructions.

Bitte poste deine Log-ID hier.
Falls dein Problem ein Problem mit einer Webseite ist, die per Plugin unterstützt wird, stelle bitte zusätzlich Testlinks zur Verfügung, mit denen sich dein Problem nachstellen lässt.
Geht es um einen nicht funktionierenden Account-Login, aktiviere vor dem Erstellen deines Logs den debug Modus (siehe zuvor verlinkte Anleitung).

-psp-

[pseudopod]

Still getting "temporarily unavailable" for YT videos which require login and cookies. I am fearing they can't fix this. It has been over 3 weeks.

[pspzockerscene]

It is currently being worked on problems with internally/silently failing login leading to issues with downloads of videos that require login.

[tafreire]

It would be great if there was an option to save the audio from a YouTube video in MKA format, with the chapters inserted (AKA timestamps, chapters, titles), in the same way as an MKV file with chapters.

[Bloomdido]

Hi,

I just discovered the "temporarily unavailable" problem with age-restricted YT videos when using the cookie method and found this thread.

All the videos added to my download list would show that error message.

I then unchecked my Youtube account in the JD Account manager and started the downloads again, one after the other. They all downloaded fine, with the YT account unchecked, after they had been added to the list with the account checked and the cookie added.

Edit: this worked with the age-restricted videos from one account. I tried it again with another account, it didn't work, aven after refreshing the cookies.

[pspzockerscene]

It is currently being worked on problems with age restricted videos.

[hottkarl]

Originally Posted by Bloomdido

Hi,

I just discovered the "temporarily unavailable" problem with age-restricted YT videos when using the cookie method and found this thread.

All the videos added to my download list would show that error message.

I then unchecked my Youtube account in the JD Account manager and started the downloads again, one after the other. They all downloaded fine, with the YT account unchecked, after they had been added to the list with the account checked and the cookie added.

Edit: this worked with the age-restricted videos from one account. I tried it again with another account, it didn't work, aven after refreshing the cookies.

Thanks Bloomdido. That tricked worked for me!

[HLX]

For me personally, I usually download videos at two resolutions: 1080p if I want "highest quality" (because I have a 1080p monitor and devices), or 480p if I don't need much quality. A few times I pick 720p if there is no 480p available

1. Some times I add many videos from different youtube channels to the linkgrabber, then I join all of them in one single package

2. I right click the package and in the menu I go to "youtube.com" > "change video variant"

3. It opens a new menu, where I click the 854*480 H264 AAC variant. However, under the "links" tab in this menu, it says 1/2, 78/94, etc., which means that only a fraction of them are available in that resolution (or it can be 100% availability if I'm "lucky")

4. In this simplified example, I click "select" even though it says (1/2), but JD changes a video to 480p and the other becomes an image instead. At this point I have to go through all the images one by one and right click the variant to select another video resolution manually, or 720p which is the closest to 480p but not horrible like 360p

Note: before clicking "select" there is a checkbox that says "Auto-choose best alternative", but it doesn't make any difference if I select it or unselect it

Example of 2 links to reproduce this problem:
**External links are only visible to Support Staff****External links are only visible to Support Staff**
**External links are only visible to Support Staff****External links are only visible to Support Staff**

Thank you for the support ^^

[boronunu]

Originally Posted by hottkarl

Thanks Bloomdido. That tricked worked for me!

Strangely, the same process worked for me too.