"Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot." error with YouTube videos

[MichailiK]

Bug Description

Playing YouTube videos may fail with the error "Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot."

YouTube seems to have recently rolled out this measure. It's affecting not only third party players/clients, but also YouTube's official website & apps when logged out. Several communities have come across a few discoveries. Here's a summary of what I've seen:

1. This is an IP block.
2. Instead of just banning one IP, it looks YouTube is blocking whole ASNs/IP ranges. If you encounter this issue, it's likely a "neighboring" IP address was bombarding YouTube, causing them to block the ASN/IP range you're in.
3. The cobalt.tools developers seem to have found a workaround using OAuth2. This currently has a PR in the lavaplayer youtube source manager, however it seems a bit risky.

We are in the process of implementing OAuth2 login for JMusicBot in #1670. Use this with an alternative/burner!!! Google account to play tracks again on blocked IPs.

Checklist

• I have looked for information about this within the documentation
• I have searched for similar issues on the issues page
• I am running the latest version of the bot:

[PouletteMC]

Also having this issue, if anyone has a solution or a quick and dirty workaround, I'd be down

[TheBjoel2]

downloading youtube videos through tor might be a workaround for this problem. just tested this, it works

$ torsocks yt-dlp https://youtu.be/AL5vANu2gok                                                                                                                                                               
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://youtu.be/AL5vANu2gok
[youtube] AL5vANu2gok: Downloading webpage
[youtube] AL5vANu2gok: Downloading ios player API JSON
[youtube] AL5vANu2gok: Downloading player 4fc7f9fa
[youtube] AL5vANu2gok: Downloading m3u8 information
[info] AL5vANu2gok: Downloading 1 format(s): 302+251
[download] Destination: Black Holes Explained For Gen-Z [AL5vANu2gok].f302.webm
[download] 100% of   48.22MiB in 00:03:40 at 223.78KiB/s
[download] Destination: Black Holes Explained For Gen-Z [AL5vANu2gok].f251.webm
[download] 100% of   10.01MiB in 00:00:49 at 207.41KiB/s
[Merger] Merging formats into "Black Holes Explained For Gen-Z [AL5vANu2gok].webm"
Deleting original file Black Holes Explained For Gen-Z [AL5vANu2gok].f302.webm (pass -k to keep)
Deleting original file Black Holes Explained For Gen-Z [AL5vANu2gok].f251.webm (pass -k to keep)

[cmorley191]

This other repo fixed the issue by adding support for Oauth2, essentially allowing people to create dummy accounts for the bots to log in with: imputnet/cobalt#551

Is this something we'd have to request support for in lavaplayer? Or is MusicBot responsible for querying the youtube API?

[Ozak93]

I'm facing the same issue:

Jun 17 23:49:14 env[441177]: [23:49:14] [ERROR] [AudioHandler]: Track BJhF0L7pfo8 has failed to play Jun 17 23:49:14 env[441177]: com.sedmelluq.discord.lavaplayer.tools.FriendlyException: Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot Jun 17 23:49:14 env[441177]: at dev.lavalink.youtube.clients.skeleton.Client.getPlayabilityStatus(Client.java:72) Jun 17 23:49:14 env[441177]: at dev.lavalink.youtube.clients.skeleton.NonMusicClient.loadTrackInfoFromInnertube(NonMusicClient.java:98) Jun 17 23:49:14 env[441177]: at dev.lavalink.youtube.clients.skeleton.StreamingNonMusicClient.loadFormats(StreamingNonMusicClient.java:35) Jun 17 23:49:14 env[441177]: at dev.lavalink.youtube.track.YoutubeAudioTrack.loadBestFormatWithUrl(YoutubeAudioTrack.java:175)

[Moonchild6279]

I can confirm that with my VPS Server, it logs a "Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot." error everytime I want to play a youtube video on my server.

HOWEVER, just recently I found out my old instance of my bot in my local machine work perfectly with youtube.
Perhaps it's something to do with how the I.P of my local machine is tied to my youtube account perhaps? maybe youtube blocked requests from my server because of that.

[Derahex]

a bot called "Nero Bot" manages to still play YT videos- would be worth looking into how they manage past the whole thing with their "nodes".

[TheBjoel2]

a bot called "Nero Bot" manages to still play YT videos- would be worth looking into how they manage past the whole thing with their "nodes".

1. Nero Bot is not open source
2. Minerea is also able to play YT. Not open source
3. Chances are they are paying for a YT API or idk