/videoplayback 403 - Piped not playing videos

[probatschool2]

Official Instance

• The bug is reproducible on the official hosted instance, or is API-related.

Describe the bug

For some reason the videos dont load and I cant watch piped. I primarily use piped cause youtube is blocked and this piped link is just about one of the only ones not blocked. If someone can please help me with this it would be much appriciated!

To Reproduce

i honestly dont know how to reproduce this bug

Expected behavior

I expected to be able to watch the youtube videos I want to.

Logs/Errors

No response

Browser, and OS with Version.

I use google and i think I may use chrome os beacuse Im on my school chrome book and use it.

Additional context

No response

[alejandro-alzate]

same issue here; mine is reproducible on the lastest libretube client of fdroid with the instance piped.yt my suspicious is that instances are being bot-blocked correct me if the case.
Unrelated to the bug, how can i run an instance for my people if theres an article for this please link it to me.

Edit: changing instance seems fruitless , does load thumbnails cover art and personalized feed (A.k.a. subscriptions), selecting a video loads description title and comments, No playback whatsoever. i'm running libretube v0.16.1 on a modified samsung s9 running lineageOS 20 (Android 13), no gapps installed, still, if i'm somewhat usefull, tell me.

Edit 2: I take the changing instance seems fruitless back, instance whatever.social fuctions normally, However If you try my solution please spread out so we don't acidentally DDoS the working instances.

[DarkCat09]

The same issue with my ytapi.dc09.ru instance.

Proxy returns 403 Forbidden on every video stream request. I mean previews and channel avatars are succesfully loaded, but URLs from videoStreams and audioStreams are not.

I'll update API and proxy, and then edit this comment if anything changed.
Upd: bug still exists in the latest version.

[DarkCat09]

Found the same issue in Invidious repo, and it have been already fixed: iv-org/invidious#4045 (comment)

[DarkCat09]

Fix in NewPipeExtractor: TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#1084

[DarkCat09]

This bug still exists even on the latest Piped-Backend commit.

[fahim44]

no instance work right now. For example: GET https://watchproxy-nl.whatever.social/videoplayback returns 403.

[probatschool2]

I dont know all these terms yall use like instances and stuff like that i m only in 9th grade just trying to find a unblocked youtube to use

[ReduxFlakes]

@probatschool2 To put it simply, YouTube has blocked access to Piped proxy from connecting to YouTube and thus not being able to play videos as far as I know.

[Qaz-6]

https://api.piped.projectsegfau.lt
It works

[alejandro-alzate]

instance whatever.social broke, i migrated to [REDACTED] but broke as well WHILE writing this down

[DarkCat09]

@FireMasterK, could you update your Extractor fork? TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#1084

[probatschool2]

sadly the website https://api.piped.projectsegfau.lt/ is blocked and not working for me they have it blocked by category on my computer.
Btw if yall can please give me links to any other fake youtubes for things that may be unblocked it would be much appriciated thank you

[FireMasterK]

@FireMasterK, could you update your Extractor fork? TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#1084

This is unrelated and we already have this commit.

[Qaz-6]

Now all instances are working.Sometimes it still doesn't work.

[smol-loli]

Cannot confirm this. Tested the offical, piped.adminforge.de and piped.smnz.de and they all don't work.

[lmenale]

Still doesn't work

[Dominion0815]

yes still broken. I think google blocked again. piped.adminforge.de is now running with privoxy/wireguard vpn and it works but the performance is realy bad.

[DarkCat09]

piped.mha.fi and project segfault work.

I don't know how, but if Google actually banned proxy IPs, I can request other address from my hoster for dc09.ru instance. Will it help?

[LavellanDWR]

The official libre instance works

[blacklight]

@n-ce if Google is straight away banning IP addresses of ytproxy servers is it really worth? It may just be a matter of time before those servers get banned too, if they use static addresses (unless this was a one-off stunt from their side). Maybe it'd be more helpful to compile a list of instances that will start adopting rotating IP addresses, if it really turns out that Google is blacklisting requests on an IP basis.

As a Piped instance admin I think I'm pretty much done from my side - I've played this cat-and-mouse game with Google for too long and I don't want to invest time to give my server a dynamic IP because that server is also used for other stuff. But I'm happy to support anyone who embarks into this new challenge.

[DarkCat09]

@blacklight, if I understood everything correctly, Google detected IPs by the deprecated API requests. Your IP address will be blocked only if something like #2487 or #2809 happen again.

[giselle-campos]

This is informative and unfortunate...

[DarkCat09]

For instance maintainers who run a VPN/proxy client supporting connection over HTTP or SOCKS (like Xray), you can tell piped-proxy to use it with this env var:

piped-proxy:
  ...
  environment:
    PROXY=socks5://127.0.0.1:2080

Or in OpenRC config file instead of Docker in my case:

#!/sbin/openrc-run

export PROXY=socks5://127.0.0.1:2080
...

Piped-proxy uses reqwest library under the hood, so the format is the same as here.
http://address:port or socks[4/5]://address:port

[d4rklynk]

For instance maintainers who use docker but don't want to put the whole system behind a VPN, you can use gluetun as such: (truncated)

version: "3"

services:
    vpn:
      image: qmcgaw/gluetun
      cap_add:
        - NET_ADMIN
      environment:
        - VPN_SERVICE_PROVIDER=mullvad
        - VPN_TYPE=openvpn 
        - OPENVPN_USER= # Account code
        - SERVER_COUNTRIES=USA
      privileged: true
      restart: unless-stopped
    piped-proxy:
      image: 1337kavin/piped-proxy:latest
      network_mode: "service:vpn" # IMPORTTANT
      restart: unless-stopped
      environment:
          - UDS=1
      volumes:
          - piped-proxy:/app/socket

If you use a different provider, gluetun supports anything including custom configs: https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun-wiki/tree/main/setup/providers

Omg man, thanks, it's way easier than setup a VPN.
That's actually a good solution rn.

[Qaz-6]

TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#10352 (comment)

[MuubNito]

Piped somehow stopped working again, but it still loads thumbnails and titles.

[d4rklynk]

It works for me though
Which instance are you referring to ?
https://piped.simpleprivacy.fr works fine

[DarkCat09]

@MuubNito, yt.dc09.ru and piped.projectsegfau.lt work.
If you meant the official instance piped.video, looks like it overloaded with requests (or maybe it's my ISP issues).

[hugoghx]

I've also just had this happen today after a frontend update. It's happening in piped.video too when playing a livestream. From the looks of it, it's some frontend problem as the proxy is replying with data but no playback occurs, and also I can watch the livestreams on the phone through Yattee.

Update: I built the frontend from source, version master @ cc478fd5 and it now works. I suspect the shaka player update broke something

[FireMasterK]

I've also just had this happen today after a frontend update. It's happening in piped.video too when playing a livestream. From the looks of it, it's some frontend problem as the proxy is replying with data but no playback occurs, and also I can watch the livestreams on the phone through Yattee.

Update: I built the frontend from source, version master @ cc478fd5 and it now works. I suspect the shaka player update broke something

This appears to be a different issue, please open a new issue for this! This issue is for the Google 403 issue

[d4rklynk]

Any update for this issue ? Do we still need to use VPN or so ?

[FireMasterK]

Any update for this issue ? Do we still need to use VPN or so ?

It looks like you still need to. I checked with of my IPs that was affected, and it still appears to be affected by this issue.

[Qaz-6]

I don't use VPN. I closed Piped proxy. Videos open easily.

[d4rklynk]

What are the consequences of disabling proxy ? Google will see IP of users ? And what ?

If it's IP, I totally don't care.

But if for example, using Piped w/o proxy or LibreTube with proxy-bypass feature will show my IP users to Google, can they potentially block account that are used from the same IP ?

I had similar problem when using Aurora Store months ago. My account Google has been irrevocably blocked. Aurora does not respect ToS. I don't know if Piped does though.

[ghost]

pretty much all instances just take a million years to load videos if they load at all. very frustrating. as I've mentioned in some other issue, NewPipe works much better. What does NewPipe have that the desktop instances don't?

[absidue]

@cyberhardt NewPipe does everything on your device and talks directly to YouTube, so your IP address, search queries etc are exposed to them. Piped does everything through the server, including the video streaming, so YouTube has no idea what comes from you and what comes from other users on the same instance. The downside of Piped's approach, is that YouTube is not a fan of the same IP address streaming 100s of terabytes of video and audio every month, so the do waves of IP bans for streaming, all the API endpoints still work fine.

The only solution, without sacrificing your privacy, is for the server to get a new IP address.

[ghost]

@cyberhardt NewPipe does everything on your device and talks directly to YouTube, so your IP address, search queries etc are exposed to them. Piped does everything through the server, including the video streaming, so YouTube has no idea what comes from you and what comes from other users on the same instance. The downside of Piped's approach, is that YouTube is not a fan of the same IP address streaming 100s of terabytes of video and audio every month, so the do waves of IP bans for streaming, all the API endpoints still work fine.

The only solution, without sacrificing your privacy, is for the server to get a new IP address.

I see, thanks for the explanation

[d4rklynk]

How do you remove proxy part in Piped ?

I mostly use Piped, because I want SponsorBlock and I love using LibreTube.

[absidue]

@d4rklynk Setup your own Piped instance without the proxy and modify the code in Piped and LibreTube to not use the proxy.

[Qaz-6]

This is written when this video opens.Also some 6 minute videos open in 3 minutes and often freeze or stop.Videos are close to region.Server is kavin.rocks.Server is supported in my country and no region restrictions.Internet connection is great.🤔

Video link specific to the problem in the image:https://youtu.be/6pqbFiHHrbk?si=KE6t25OCzYS1JtBy
6 minute video playback challenge link:

1. https://youtu.be/Y-uMPL5qcKE?si=OH4rIGrDsEM1uG5S
2. https://youtu.be/MQM7CNoAsBI?si=dFoT6QdBjl4zktgx

[Real-Gecko]

I have kinda similar issue, with piped.video: video starts playing fine, but after random period of 2 to 8 minutes it stops and infinite loading is happening, the period is different for each video, but always the same for same video. A good example is https://piped.video/watch?v=lMKK7DUVEmQ it freezes somewhere around 8:45. Tried different browsers on different platforms, result is always the same. iPadOS: Safari, Opera, Firefox; Arch Linux: Firefox, Chromium.

[Moonstone3010]

I have kinda similar issue, with piped.video: video starts playing fine, but after random period of 2 to 8 minutes it stops and infinite loading is happening, the period is different for each video, but always the same for same video. A good example is https://piped.video/watch?v=lMKK7DUVEmQ it freezes somewhere around 8:45. Tried different browsers on different platforms, result is always the same. iPadOS: Safari, Opera, Firefox; Arch Linux: Firefox, Chromium.

Do you use a VPN?

[Real-Gecko]

I have kinda similar issue, with piped.video: video starts playing fine, but after random period of 2 to 8 minutes it stops and infinite loading is happening, the period is different for each video, but always the same for same video. A good example is https://piped.video/watch?v=lMKK7DUVEmQ it freezes somewhere around 8:45. Tried different browsers on different platforms, result is always the same. iPadOS: Safari, Opera, Firefox; Arch Linux: Firefox, Chromium.

Do you use a VPN?

Nope, but I'm located in Kazakhstan, just in case.

[Moonstone3010]

I have the same problem. Longer videos stop at the eighth minute of playback. I have to press Ctrl+F5 to continue playing and from then on the video stops about every two minutes until the end of playback. The problem applies only to video playback, it does not occur in the audio-only option.

[np22-jpg]

If this is an IP banning issue, then maybe Invidious’s fix could apply, where they appear to force the use of IPv6 addresses for DNS resolution then regularly rotate their instance’s public IPv6 address?

[codenyte]

If this is an IP banning issue, then maybe Invidious’s fix could apply, where they appear to force the use of IPv6 addresses for DNS resolution then regularly rotate their instance’s public IPv6 address?

I opened an issue suggesting this #3242