[FIXED IN 0.27.2][YouTube] HTTP error 403 when starting videos

[Spok1]

Please also see About YouTube playback errors - YouTube changed some things to get working streams

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• I made sure that there are no existing issues - open or closed - which I could contribute my information to.
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Affected version

0.27.0

Steps to reproduce the bug

Open the video and try to play it.

Expected behavior

For the videos to play.

Actual behavior

The video doesn't want to play. An error code appears in the notification.

Screenshots/Screen recordings

No response

Logs

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_IO_BAD_HTTP_STATUS] occurred while playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoLa-J8YpxU
• Content Country: RU
• Content Language: ru-RU
• App Language: ru_RU
• Service: YouTube
• Version: 0.27.0
• OS: Linux Android 7.0 - 24

Crash log

com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: Source error
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleIoException(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:644)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:616)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:98)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:159)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:61)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.HttpDataSource$InvalidResponseCodeException: Response code: 403
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.open(YoutubeHttpDataSource.java:422)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultDataSource.open(DefaultDataSource.java:263)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.TeeDataSource.open(TeeDataSource.java:52)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.openNextSource(CacheDataSource.java:796)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.open(CacheDataSource.java:609)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.StatsDataSource.open(StatsDataSource.java:84)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.chunk.InitializationChunk.load(InitializationChunk.java:99)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(Loader.java:412)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1133)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:607)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:761)

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Affected Android/Custom ROM version

Android 7

Affected device model

Asus z500m

Additional information

No response

[MrNessuno]

Same problem here.
Android 14
it-IT
Version 0.27.0
It refuses to load the video and crashes after a while.
I sent the report from the app via mail.

[Wicycool]

I'm getting the same error too...

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_IO_BAD_HTTP_STATUS] occurred while playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXyJZowsTjw
• Content Country: US
• Content Language: en-US
• App Language: en_US
• Service: YouTube
• Version: 0.27.0
• OS: Linux Android 14 - 34

Crash log

com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: Source error
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleIoException(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:644)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:616)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:103)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:232)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:317)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:85)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.HttpDataSource$InvalidResponseCodeException: Response code: 403
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.open(YoutubeHttpDataSource.java:422)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultDataSource.open(DefaultDataSource.java:263)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.TeeDataSource.open(TeeDataSource.java:52)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.openNextSource(CacheDataSource.java:796)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.open(CacheDataSource.java:609)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.StatsDataSource.open(StatsDataSource.java:84)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.chunk.InitializationChunk.load(InitializationChunk.java:99)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(Loader.java:412)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:644)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1012)

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[limesqueezy]

Same

Exception

• User Action: requested stream
• Request: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cbOim_HjPg
• Content Country: US
• Content Language: en-US
• App Language: en_US
• Service: YouTube
• Version: 0.25.2
• OS: Linux samsung/beyond2qlteue/beyond2q:11/RP1A.200720.012/G975U1UEU6GUJ3:user/release-keys 11 - 30

Crash log

org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.exceptions.ParsingException: Could not get like count
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.extractors.YoutubeStreamExtractor.getLikeCount(YoutubeStreamExtractor.java:508)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.stream.StreamInfo.extractOptionalData(StreamInfo.java:279)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.stream.StreamInfo.getInfo(StreamInfo.java:83)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.stream.StreamInfo.getInfo(StreamInfo.java:73)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.util.ExtractorHelper.lambda$getStreamInfo$3(ExtractorHelper.java:119)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.util.ExtractorHelper.$r8$lambda$YTHJjScxCJNO1LTCqs3IKy35iyY(ExtractorHelper.java:0)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.util.ExtractorHelper$$ExternalSyntheticLambda3.call(R8$$SyntheticClass:0)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleFromCallable.subscribeActual(SingleFromCallable.java:43)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Single.subscribe(Single.java:4855)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleDoOnSuccess.subscribeActual(SingleDoOnSuccess.java:35)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Single.subscribe(Single.java:4855)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeFromSingle.subscribeActual(MaybeFromSingle.java:41)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Maybe.subscribe(Maybe.java:5377)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray$ConcatMaybeObserver.drain(MaybeConcatArray.java:153)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray$ConcatMaybeObserver.request(MaybeConcatArray.java:78)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.flowable.FlowableElementAtMaybe$ElementAtSubscriber.onSubscribe(FlowableElementAtMaybe.java:66)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray.subscribeActual(MaybeConcatArray.java:42)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Flowable.subscribe(Flowable.java:16013)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.flowable.FlowableElementAtMaybe.subscribeActual(FlowableElementAtMaybe.java:36)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Maybe.subscribe(Maybe.java:5377)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeToSingle.subscribeActual(MaybeToSingle.java:46)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Single.subscribe(Single.java:4855)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleSubscribeOn$SubscribeOnObserver.run(SingleSubscribeOn.java:89)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Scheduler$DisposeTask.run(Scheduler.java:644)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.schedulers.ScheduledRunnable.run(ScheduledRunnable.java:65)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.schedulers.ScheduledRunnable.call(ScheduledRunnable.java:56)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
	at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:301)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1167)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:923)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'boolean java.lang.String.equalsIgnoreCase(java.lang.String)' on a null object reference
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.extractors.YoutubeStreamExtractor.lambda$getLikeCount$7(YoutubeStreamExtractor.java:458)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.extractors.YoutubeStreamExtractor.$r8$lambda$JNZYncC0vyG9Ez_PK6G8Ez8Psqs(YoutubeStreamExtractor.java:0)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.extractors.YoutubeStreamExtractor$$ExternalSyntheticLambda14.test(R8$$SyntheticClass:0)
	at j$.util.stream.d2.accept(SourceFile:0)
	at j$.util.stream.d2.accept(SourceFile:0)
	at j$.util.stream.d2.accept(SourceFile:0)
	at j$.util.stream.d2.accept(SourceFile:0)
	at j$.util.a.tryAdvance(SourceFile:0)
	at j$.util.stream.l2.z0(Unknown Source:6)
	at j$.util.stream.c.a0(Unknown Source:15)
	at j$.util.stream.c.Z(SourceFile:0)
	at j$.util.stream.c.t0(Unknown Source:10)
	at j$.util.stream.J.v(Unknown Source:8)
	at j$.util.stream.c.w0(SourceFile:0)
	at j$.util.stream.l2.findFirst(SourceFile:0)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.extractors.YoutubeStreamExtractor.getLikeCount(YoutubeStreamExtractor.java:466)
	... 30 more

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[bit-garden]

It should be mentioned that yt-dlp yesterday started throwing 403 errors.

yt-dlp/yt-dlp#10397

This sounds like YouTube has made changes that are breaking 3rd party access.

[ACR-Jeff]

Youtube is messing with 3rd party apps again. It's happening on other apps as well.

[joshuabengal]

Same here. No videos will play, no channel pages will load.

Worth noting that on my PC, PotPlayer can still play videos just fine. Last time this happened (NewPipe failed to play a video but PotPlayer plays it), it was a result of YouTube doing A/B testing targeting different platforms.

[Player005]

Same issue here. First started just occasionally occurring on some videos, now no videos play at all.
Changing DNS to cloudflare or quad9 doesn't change anything, same goes with deleting metadata cache.

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_IO_BAD_HTTP_STATUS] occurred while playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgdSJdeGF_0
• Content Country: DE
• Content Language: de-DE
• App Language: de_DE
• Service: YouTube
• Version: 0.27.0
• OS: Linux Android 13 - 33

Crash log

com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: Source error
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleIoException(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:644)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:616)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:201)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:288)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.HttpDataSource$InvalidResponseCodeException: Response code: 403
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.open(YoutubeHttpDataSource.java:422)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultDataSource.open(DefaultDataSource.java:263)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.openNextSource(CacheDataSource.java:796)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.open(CacheDataSource.java:609)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.StatsDataSource.open(StatsDataSource.java:84)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.chunk.InitializationChunk.load(InitializationChunk.java:99)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(Loader.java:412)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1137)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:637)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1012)

[gsture]

Same here. No videos will play, no channel pages will load.

Worth noting that on my PC, PotPlayer can still play videos just fine. Last time this happened (NewPipe failed to play a video but PotPlayer plays it), it was a result of YouTube doing A/B testing targeting different platforms.

Grayjay android app also still works. That's what I am using in the meantime.

[ACR-Jeff]

The only thing I can get working is other apps that utilize the invidious instances, Everything else just fails