YouTube SABR Protection

[paul92]

Hi all

Has anyone figured out how to circumvent YouTube's SABR Protection?

This is extremely frustrating, and has broken a lot of things, including my workflows.

VideoDownloadHelper seems to with some videos, but some UHD videos just don't download.

Thanks in advance

[lomero]

what is YouTube SABR Protection ? explain and share a video link just example

[LZAA]

Url?

[paul92]

Url?

[notice] A new release of pip is available: 25.0.1 -> 25.2
[notice] To update, run: python3.11 -m pip install --upgrade pip
paul@paul-Lenovo-ideapad-510-15ISK:~$ mpv --ytdl-format="bestvideo[height<=2160]+bestaudio/best" "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcD4CTt3ZaQ"
[ytdl_hook] ERROR: [youtube] dcD4CTt3ZaQ: Requested format is not available. Use --list-formats for a list of available formats
[ytdl_hook] youtube-dl failed: unexpected error occurred
Failed to recognize file format.
Exiting... (Errors when loading file)
paul@paul-Lenovo-ideapad-510-15ISK:~$ yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser firefox --format "bestvideo+bestaudio/best" "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcD4CTt3ZaQ"
Extracting cookies from firefox
Extracted 1834 cookies from firefox
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcD4CTt3ZaQ
[youtube] dcD4CTt3ZaQ: Downloading webpage
[youtube] dcD4CTt3ZaQ: Downloading tv client config
[youtube] dcD4CTt3ZaQ: Downloading tv player API JSON
[youtube] dcD4CTt3ZaQ: Downloading tv simply player API JSON
[youtube] dcD4CTt3ZaQ: Downloading player 17ad44a3-main
WARNING: [youtube] dcD4CTt3ZaQ: Signature extraction failed: Some formats may be missing
player = https://www.youtube.com/s/player/17ad44a3/player_ias.vflset/en_US/base.js
Please report this issue on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using yt-dlp -U
WARNING: [youtube] dcD4CTt3ZaQ: Some web client https formats have been skipped as they are missing a url. YouTube is forcing SABR streaming for this client. See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12482 for more details
WARNING: Only images are available for download. use --list-formats to see them
ERROR: [youtube] dcD4CTt3ZaQ: Requested format is not available. Use --list-formats for a list of available formats
paul@paul-Lenovo-ideapad-510-15ISK:~$

[iamghost]

go to update yt-dlp 25.2 then you will be fine

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[paul92]

Thanks guys getting another issue with youtube - unsure if this is related but this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfEJTUMZ1b0 I get error 403 forbidden.

Any idea why?

I am certain something was changed

[iamghost]

yt-dlp --sleep-request 0.5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfEJTUMZ1b0

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