Error getting mssing player: This video is unavailable

[MBCX]

In Youtube's war against all other ways of interacting with its service, youtube-local is now in the cross fire and this error appears in every video I try to watch, doesn't matter if you're using a VPN, or TOR, or neither.

If you reload enough times it will eventually get through, but this is still super annoying.

[MBCX]

This commit #219 actually seems to fix the issue for me.

[dmbarrad]

Got the same issue, Still don't know how does the #219 helps?

[KongoBongo]

Yeah, this is still persistent and now it just full on doesn't work. You can spam refresh but it will still come up with the same error message.

[alive4ever]

Got the same issue, Still don't know how does the #219 helps?

The #219 pull request introduces mweb innertube client with n signature decryption to get working player inside the watch page and several more changes.

The simplest fix is by removing params from yt api request body and changing the client to ios. Here is how to do it from the master branch.

diff --git a/youtube/watch.py b/youtube/watch.py
index 8cddf1d..b08d29a 100644
--- a/youtube/watch.py
+++ b/youtube/watch.py
@@ -337,7 +337,6 @@ def _add_to_error(info, key, additional_message):
 def fetch_player_response(client, video_id):
     return util.call_youtube_api(client, 'player', {
         'videoId': video_id,
-        'params': 'CgIQBg',
     })
 
 def fetch_watch_page_info(video_id, playlist_id, index):
@@ -367,7 +366,7 @@ def extract_info(video_id, use_invidious, playlist_id=None, index=None):
         gevent.spawn(fetch_watch_page_info, video_id, playlist_id, index),
 
 
-        gevent.spawn(fetch_player_response, 'android-test-suite', video_id)
+        gevent.spawn(fetch_player_response, 'ios', video_id)
     )
     gevent.joinall(tasks)
     util.check_gevent_exceptions(*tasks)

[backspacedodge]

Have the same issue shown in OP's screenshot, does not matter how many times I refresh. As a solution, I've tried both #219 separately and the patch that alive4ever posted above on the main branch. Both work for now.

[ntnguyen1234]

Btw, I think the current INNERTUBE_CONTEXT of ios doesn't allow 4K 60fps? When I try the config from yt-dlp, I can play 4K 60fps now (example link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw1MWfilz_k)

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/4b5eec0aaa7c02627f27a386591b735b90e681a8/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py#L198-L208

'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT': {
    'client': {
        'hl': 'en',
        'gl': 'US',
        'clientName': 'IOS',
        'clientVersion': '19.45.4',
        'deviceMake': 'Apple',
        'deviceModel': 'iPhone16,2',
        'userAgent': 'com.google.ios.youtube/19.45.4 (iPhone16,2; U; CPU iOS 18_1_0 like Mac OS X;)',
        'osName': 'iPhone',
        'osVersion': '18.1.0.22B83',
    }
},