"Failed to extract information from neither embed nor watch pages"

[kirk-marple]

Anyone know if anything changed recently, and now YouTube videos are getting blocked by this library.

We're getting a GrabParseException with this error "Failed to extract information from neither embed nor watch pages".

                var result = await grabber.GrabAsync(uri);

This code used to work, and I recently noticed our tests failing, and it seems to be on any YouTube video.

[javidsho]

YouTube has made some big changes. I am a bit busy at the moment to handle the issue myself. I hope someone else would try fixing it. One way or another worst case scenario other open source repositories will probably push the fixes and we can replicate those

[kirk-marple]

Ah, thought maybe they were totally blocking things.

I'm happy to give it a go and try and fix it. Any advice on what they have changed would be helpful, and then I can make a PR.

[hloychik]

Hello. If you call GrabAsync again, for example in catch, then everything works

[rochapablo]

+1

[PatriceBG]

I tried to repeat the GrabAsync for up to 10 times with the same result. Is there anything else I could try?

[PrinceCharles23]

am i wrong to assume the library is useless for youtube for over a year now?

[PatriceBG]

No, you're right. Personally, I gave up on SharpGrabber for YouTube. However, YouTubeDownloader (https://github.com/Tyrrrz/YoutubeDownloader) worked very well for me. Give it a try.

[PrinceCharles23]

No, you're right. Personally, I gave up on SharpGrabber for YouTube. However, YouTubeDownloader (https://github.com/Tyrrrz/YoutubeDownloader) worked very well for me. Give it a try.

i considered them until i saw that they want to shove their political agenda down my throat and covering it as "usage license". i am using YoutubeDLSharp which also supports separate audio/video downloads ;-)