[Triage] Suddenly all video titles are youtube video #

[mayoko185]

Describe the bug
I recently set up pinchflat last week and everything was working great, yesterday I went to add a new channel and now all videos even those ive already downloaded have the title youtube video #randomstuff

To Reproduce
Ive restarted the docker container, also tried to start a manual index/refresh metadata.

Expected behavior
Should have the current videos title

Screenshots

Diagnostic info

• App Version: 2025.1.3
• yt-dlp Version: 2024.12.23
• Apprise Version: v1.9.1
• System Architecture: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
• Timezone: America/New_York

Additional context

pinchflat-logs-2025-01-05.txt

Thanks for any help, loving the app so far its perfect for what I need it for (archiving videos to watch on emby).

[kieraneglin]

Hey there! Thanks for the report (:

This is what happens when yt-dlp can't extract any data from the video it's indexing/downloading. This is, unfortunately, something that's out of my hands and usually happens when YouTube introduces breaking changes to the way yt-dlp works. YouTube always slowly rolls out these changes and in this case it seems like you were one of the (un)lucky first recipients. The good news is that the yt-dlp team is typically extremely quick to roll out a fix for these kinds of issues 🤞

I'll keep this issue open for a few days just to remind myself to check back in on any update from the yt-dlp team

[mayoko185]

Ahhh good old cat and mouse situation, thanks for taking a look.

[Shayviri]

Hi, Sorry to step in like that, I have some questions about this.

Let's imagine there is a problem like that and YouTube make some breaking change. yt-dlp is not updated yet, and pinchflat index the data as they come from yt-dlp. Some data will be wrong because of the breaking changes.

Does this metadata be updated later when the yt-dlp is updated? If yes, does it occur during the indexing? Do we need to force refresh metadata?
What about the videos downloaded during the breaking changes? If the titles were wrong, I guess the files name might be wrong if we use the title name and the metadata aside will be wrong too. What can we do about this? Do we need to redownload everything?

It is just questions to know how to handle it when this happens.

[aklferris]

I, too, am getting the same issue.

[kieraneglin]

Hey all! I've spent some more time looking into this and it seems like this is a widespread issue for some people and yt-dlp. For some people using cookies helped and for others changing their residential IP helped. The root cause seems yet unknown but I'll see if I can push out some changes today to change how rate limiting works in-app

@Shayviri good questions! The next successful index should update the in-app metadata. As for filenames, those will be screwed up until I come up with a solution to #408. I've been working on that issue recently, but it's harder than I expected to get everything to work in a sane way. In the meantime, if your filename is screwed up the best option is to delete the media item in-app and re-download it

[chaosbib]

Thank God I'm not the only one. Another thing that is seems related to this issue is if you're set to download music (adding metadata to the files), it only downloads the album cover (jpg).