Extraction error: Request contains an invalid argument #73

Schmiddiii commented 2026年01月31日 11:05:58 +01:00

It seems like since yesterday (2026年01月30日), querying the videos of a channel occasionally fails. Which channels fail exactly does not seem to be deterministic. I've attached a debug report of a failing query (an error report does not seem to be generated). One thing I noticed is that it always fails with operation "continuation", but I can still reproduce it without actually paging the pager and only using the first page.

See also this downstream issue.

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}

It seems like since yesterday (2026年01月30日), querying the videos of a channel occasionally fails. Which channels fail exactly does not seem to be deterministic. I've attached a debug report of a failing query (an error report does not seem to be generated). One thing I noticed is that it always fails with operation "continuation", but I can still reproduce it without actually paging the pager and only using the first page. See also [this downstream issue](https://gitlab.com/schmiddi-on-mobile/pipeline/-/issues/297). ```json { "info": { "package": "rustypipe", "version": "0.11.4", "date": "2026年01月31日T09:49:41Z", "language": "en", "botguard_version": null }, "level": "DBG", "operation": "continuation(4qmFsgJgEhhVQ3dId0R1TmQ5bENkQTdjaHl5cXVEWHcaRDhnWXdHaTU2TEJJbUNpUTFaamN5TW1WaVlpMW1OREF4TFRkaFpqTXRZemRoT0MxaU9HRTVZek5oTWpJNU5UQVlBU0FF)", "error": "extraction error: bad request (Request contains an invalid argument.)", "http_request": { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/youtubei/v1/browse?prettyPrint=false", "method": "POST", "req_header": { "content-type": "application/json", "origin": "https://www.youtube.com", "referer": "https://www.youtube.com", "user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0", "x-goog-eom-visitor-id": "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%3D%3D", "x-youtube-client-name": "1", "x-youtube-client-version": "2.20260128.05.00" }, "req_body": "{\"context\":{\"client\":{\"clientName\":\"WEB\",\"clientVersion\":\"2.20260128.05.00\",\"platform\":\"DESKTOP\",\"originalUrl\":\"https://www.youtube.com\",\"visitorData\":\"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%3D%3D\",\"hl\":\"en\",\"gl\":\"US\",\"timeZone\":\"UTC\",\"utcOffsetMinutes\":0},\"request\":{\"internalExperimentFlags\":[],\"useSsl\":true},\"user\":{\"lockedSafetyMode\":false}},\"continuation\":\"4qmFsgJgEhhVQ3dId0R1TmQ5bENkQTdjaHl5cXVEWHcaRDhnWXdHaTU2TEJJbUNpUTFaamN5TW1WaVlpMW1OREF4TFRkaFpqTXRZemRoT0MxaU9HRTVZek5oTWpJNU5UQVlBU0FF\"}", "status": 400, "resp_body": "{\n \"error\": {\n \"code\": 400,\n \"message\": \"Request contains an invalid argument.\",\n \"errors\": [\n {\n \"message\": \"Request contains an invalid argument.\",\n \"domain\": \"global\",\n \"reason\": \"badRequest\"\n }\n ],\n \"status\": \"INVALID_ARGUMENT\"\n }\n}\n" } } ```

Schmiddiii commented 2026年02月04日 10:08:40 +01:00

This seems to happen to every channel now. @ThetaDev if there is anything I can do to help debug or fix this issue, please tell me. But I'm not that familiar with the YouTube API, so I'm not sure I can help.

This seems to happen to every channel now. @ThetaDev if there is anything I can do to help debug or fix this issue, please tell me. But I'm not that familiar with the YouTube API, so I'm not sure I can help.

Schmiddiii commented 2026年02月04日 10:44:49 +01:00

I found a workaround: Use channel_videos instead of channel_videos_order, which seems to be the same when using ChannelOrder::latest. Potentially the order_ctoken computation got changed by YouTube.

I found a workaround: Use `channel_videos` instead of `channel_videos_order`, which seems to be the same when using `ChannelOrder::latest`. Potentially the `order_ctoken` computation got changed by YouTube.