Unable to download video (outdated youtube-dl in docker-compose?)

[Arkkimaagi]

So I was unable to get the latest video even tho podsync has worked with docker-compose just fine up until now. (well, okay, paging has not worked)

I checked the log and sure enough, found this:

time="2020-07-21T14:39:17Z" level=info msg="downloading episodes" page_size=50

time="2020-07-21T14:39:17Z" level=info msg="download count: 1"
cker-com
time="2020-07-21T14:39:17Z" level=info msg="! downloading episode https://youtube.com/watch?v=hKlo5FWlxnA" episode_id=hKlo5FWlxnA index=0

time="2020-07-21T14:39:21Z" level=error msg="youtube-dl error: /tmp/podsync-546637666/hKlo5FWlxnA.%(ext)s" error="failed to execute youtube-dl: exit status 1"

time="2020-07-21T14:39:21Z" level=error msg="[youtube] hKlo5FWlxnA: Downloading webpage\n[youtube] hKlo5FWlxnA: Downloading video info webpage\nERROR: hKlo5FWlxnA: "token" parameter not in video info for unknown reason; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.\n"

time="2020-07-21T14:39:21Z" level=info msg="downloaded 0 episode(s)"

I checked the logs for the version, which seems to be old.

using youtube-dl 2020.01.24

I did not have youtube-dl installed in my system as it all has been contained in docker.

I tried installing an up to date version of youtube-dl, but of course it still finds the old version inside docker.

In my system:

$ youtube-dl --version
2018.03.14

But docker log:

using youtube-dl 2020.01.24

Then I tried the trick mentioned in #119 (comment) but the docker-compose will not run, but complain instead

unknown: Are you trying to mount a directory onto a file (or vice-versa)? Check if the specified host path exists and is the expected type

And yep, it's creating a folder named youtube-dl instead of linking a binary or what ever it's supposed to do.

How can I update the youtube-dl version the docker-compose is using?

[Arkkimaagi]

I also tried getting even more recent version of youtube-dl straight from repo, but I do not know how to link it to docker-compose.

[Arkkimaagi]

I was able to bypass this by running "youtube-dl -U" from portainer.

[ctrl-b]

I was able to work around this by mounting the binary, I use podman though

[mxpv]

Have you tried this?

[downloader]
self_update = true # Optional, auto update youtube-dl every 24 hours

[Arkkimaagi]

I had not noticed that setting 😊 I'll try running with that.

[726a67]

@Arkkimaagi note that the current youtube-dl release has an open issue affecting the download/extraction of certain youtube videos (particularly those restricted by age). Even if podsync grabs the latest version, you may continue to see errors.

There is a patch you can apply manually to the youtube-dl executable, but you would need to disable podsync's youtube-dl self-update and explicitly mount the patched executable within your podsync container, at least until the patch is merged in the next release.