Unable to search or play youtube videos.

[blindndangerous]

I'm unable to play Youtube videos using the u parameter or the p parameter. If using U, nothing happens, if using P, I get the error that it got an unexpected keyword proxies.

[cyrmax]

This is because of youtube-search-python is out of date.
Manually downgrade httpx to version 0.27.
Execute pip install httpx==0.27.

[blindndangerous]

I was able to do this and I now see this in my logs. ttmboriginal | yt_dlp.utils.DownloadError: ERROR: [youtube] PyD9cMarVJk: Sign in
to confirm you’re not a bot. Use --cookies-from-browser or --cookies for the au
thentication. See /~https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/FAQ#how-do-i-pass-cooki
es-to-yt-dlp for how to manually pass cookies. Also see /~https://github.com/yt-
dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Extractors#exporting-youtube-cookies for tips on effectively ex
porting YouTube cookies
This is the same as @Oliver2213 error. Is their anything I can do to fix this? Looking at the instructions I think I can export my cookies from my windows machine into a txt file and put it in the docker container, but how would I pass that to yt-dlp?

[grishakonzalaev]

as temporary decision, you can add following key:value in self._ydl_config:
"cookiefile": "yourpath/cookies.txt",
how to get cookie file you can read here

[blindndangerous]

I'm going to leave this issue open as the fix is only a temporary one and I believe the devs would probably want to implement a more permanent one. Here's what you have to do to get the bot working with youtube videos again.
nano requirements.txt: Add at the bottom httpx==0.27.
nano bot/services/yt.py: Thanks to deepseek for helping me find where to put this. Do a search for this: self._ydl_config = {
Once found, go down past the skip download option and add this line. Remember to keep the indentation count the same. It should be 12 spaces.
"cookiefile": "/home/ttbot/data/cookies.txt",
I'll be happy to add this as a pull request if all looks good to you guys.