<10.1.0> <LOGIN_REQUIRED>

[nikunjgupta586]

Steps to reproduce

use getbasicinfo() for any of the youtube video with any of the server location.
result throws "LOGIN_REQUIRED" for any of the youtube videos.
we can't access any youtube video without login

Failure Logs

status: "LOGIN_REQUIRED"

Expected behavior

need it to be worked without account login

Current behavior

throwing "LOGIN_REQUIRED" for any of the youtube videos

Version

Default

Anything else?

No response

Checklist

• I am running the latest version.
• I checked the documentation and found no answer.
• I have searched the existing issues and made sure this is not a duplicate.
• I have provided sufficient information.

[LuanRT]

Hi! Can you provide the full error message?

[retrouser955]

I'm not entirely sure but this could be related. It seems mostly servers are getting these errors in an attempt to block off scrapers.

[nikunjgupta586]

@LuanRT below is the response we are getting from getbasicinfo() function for any of the youtube video.

info -- VideoInfo {
streaming_data: undefined,
playability_status: {
status: 'LOGIN_REQUIRED',
reason: 'Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot',
embeddable: false,
audio_only_playablility: null,
error_screen: PlayerErrorMessage {
type: 'PlayerErrorMessage',
subreason: [Text],
reason: [Text],
proceed_button: [Button],
thumbnails: [Array],
icon_type: 'ERROR_OUTLINE'
}
},
player_config: undefined,
basic_info: {
embed: null,
channel: null,
is_unlisted: undefined,
is_family_safe: undefined,
category: null,
has_ypc_metadata: null,
start_timestamp: null,
end_timestamp: null,
view_count: undefined,
like_count: undefined,
is_liked: undefined,
is_disliked: undefined
},
annotations: undefined,
storyboards: undefined,
endscreen: undefined,
captions: undefined,
cards: undefined
}

[retrouser955]

@LuanRT as I suspected, it is definitely because of the A/B testing YouTube is doing to prevent scrappers. They secured it on their server-side so even YouTube's clients are affected.

[honzawashere]

I bet this is just that page that pops up usually on servers or suspicious clients saying "Please sign in to verify you are not a bot" or something like that. just use auth as shown in examples of this repository and you should be good to go

[unixfox]

Related: #674