Parabolic downloads picture instead of an audio file

[dodog]

Parabolic downloads picture instead of audio. I tried different urls, result is the same.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Add youtube link
2. Select mp3 audio
3. Instead of audio file a jpg file is downloaded.

Log:
log.txt

Info:
`org.nickvision.tubeconverter
Linux
2025.1.0

Deployment Mode: Flatpak
Locale: sk_SK.UTF-8
Running From: "/app/lib/org.nickvision.tubeconverter"

yt-dlp version 2024.12.23
ffmpeg version 7.1
aria2 version 1.37.0

GTK 4.16.7
libadwaita 1.6.2
`

[David-DeZ]

This is also occurring when you bring down an MP4 from YouTube - the MP4 has no audio and there is a jpg.

[jgcanete]

Same problem, but from Youtube Music

Log last lines:

File "/app/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 4172, in urlopen
return self._request_director.send(req)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/app/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/networking/common.py", line 117, in send
response = handler.send(request)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/app/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/networking/_helper.py", line 208, in wrapper
return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/app/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/networking/common.py", line 340, in send
return self._send(request)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/app/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/networking/_requests.py", line 365, in _send
raise HTTPError(res, redirect_loop=max_redirects_exceeded)

[linfindel]

I'm not very familiar with how Parabolic works but it seems that it succeeds to download the album art but fails with HTTP 403 when downloading the actual audio file

[debug] Command-line config: ['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vEiqil5d3Q', '--xff', 'default', '--no-warnings', '--progress', '--newline', '--progress-template', '[download] PROGRESS;%(progress.status)s;%(progress.downloaded_bytes)s;%(progress.total_bytes)s;%(progress.total_bytes_estimate)s;%(progress.speed)s', '--no-mtime', '--ffmpeg-location', '/app/bin/ffmpeg', '--force-overwrites', '--verbose', '--embed-metadata', '--embed-thumbnail', '--convert-thumbnails', 'jpg', '--postprocessor-args', 'ThumbnailsConvertor:-vf crop=ih:ih', '--extract-audio', '--audio-format', 'mp3', '--paths', '/run/user/1000/doc/3f527478/Pop', '--output', 'Notion.%(ext)s', '--output', 'chapter:%(section_number)03d - Notion.%(ext)s', '--postprocessor-args', '-threads 16', '--print', 'after_move:filepath']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, pref UTF-8, out utf-8 (No ANSI), error utf-8 (No ANSI), screen utf-8 (No ANSI)
[debug] yt-dlp version [email protected] from yt-dlp/yt-dlp [65cf46cdd] (pip)
[debug] Python 3.12.8 (CPython x86_64 64bit) - Linux-6.12.8-200.fc41.x86_64-x86_64-with-glibc2.40 (OpenSSL 3.3.2 3 Sep 2024, glibc 2.40)
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 7.1 (setts), ffprobe 7.1
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.21.0, brotli-1.1.0, certifi-2024.12.14, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.32.3, sqlite3-3.46.1, urllib3-2.3.0, websockets-14.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets
[debug] Loaded 1837 extractors
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vEiqil5d3Q
[youtube] 3vEiqil5d3Q: Downloading webpage
[youtube] 3vEiqil5d3Q: Downloading ios player API JSON
[youtube] 3vEiqil5d3Q: Downloading mweb player API JSON
[debug] [youtube] 3vEiqil5d3Q: ios client https formats require a PO Token which was not provided. They will be skipped as they may yield HTTP Error 403. You can manually pass a PO Token for this client with --extractor-args "youtube:po_token=ios+XXX. For more information, refer to  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Extractors#po-token-guide . To enable these broken formats anyway, pass --extractor-args "youtube:formats=missing_pot"
[debug] [youtube] Extracting signature function js_0b866fa6_110
[debug] Loading youtube-sigfuncs.js_0b866fa6_110 from cache
[debug] Loading youtube-nsig.0b866fa6 from cache
[debug] [youtube] Decrypted nsig 3AN5QeM2shkEAAkL => jd0Sk2qwmLR-sQ
[debug] [youtube] Extracting signature function js_0b866fa6_106
[debug] Loading youtube-sigfuncs.js_0b866fa6_106 from cache
[debug] Loading youtube-nsig.0b866fa6 from cache
[debug] [youtube] Decrypted nsig OnRw71tD6Tx4s7Hn => pZ1PDzzqMmjP9w
[youtube] 3vEiqil5d3Q: Downloading m3u8 information
[debug] Sort order given by extractor: quality, res, fps, hdr:12, source, vcodec, channels, acodec, lang, proto
[debug] Formats sorted by: hasvid, ie_pref, quality, res, fps, hdr:12(7), source, vcodec, channels, acodec, lang, proto, size, br, asr, vext, aext, hasaud, id
[info] 3vEiqil5d3Q: Downloading 1 format(s): 251
[info] Downloading video thumbnail 42 ...
[info] Writing video thumbnail 42 to: /run/user/1000/doc/3f527478/Pop/Notion.webp
[ThumbnailsConvertor] Converting thumbnail "/run/user/1000/doc/3f527478/Pop/Notion.webp" to jpg
[debug] ffmpeg command line: /app/bin/ffmpeg -y -loglevel repeat+info -f image2 -pattern_type none -i file:/run/user/1000/doc/3f527478/Pop/Notion.webp -update 1 -bsf:v mjpeg2jpeg -movflags +faststart -vf crop=ih:ih file:/run/user/1000/doc/3f527478/Pop/Notion.jpg
Deleting original file /run/user/1000/doc/3f527478/Pop/Notion.webp (pass -k to keep)
[debug] Invoking http downloader on "https://rr1---sn-u5a3u5a3-ajty.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1736903987&ei=07iGZ47YH_K_mLAP24zCgAY&ip=92.15.105.85&id=o-AK-DguYop1j3ROTcSPzwdgwooFLwVypcba2jb1g8s95A&itag=251&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&xpc=EgVo2aDSNQ%3D%3D&met=1736882387%2C&mh=xH&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-u5a3u5a3-ajty%2Csn-aigzrn7s&ms=au%2Crdu&mv=m&mvi=1&pl=20&rms=au%2Cau&gcr=gb&initcwndbps=2365000&bui=AY2Et-NY2Sw1AbMdNT9thIYshrNy72881xP4krB2iEJWES42komEsESOfcldpJZyz5oeFougIBmwKAtV&spc=9kzgDeeV2gDv42sBG_Xp-lJGATtlc_Z4er0IT9p32HJn3fLDDDM-O5pK363eLt8&vprv=1&svpuc=1&mime=audio%2Fwebm&ns=mu5IKyyDud5kiRzQdpg4u_IQ&rqh=1&gir=yes&clen=3081994&dur=195.141&lmt=1714440227423519&mt=1736881984&fvip=1&keepalive=yes&fexp=51326932%2C51331020%2C51335594%2C51353498%2C51371294&c=MWEB&sefc=1&txp=4532434&n=pZ1PDzzqMmjP9w&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cxpc%2Cgcr%2Cbui%2Cspc%2Cvprv%2Csvpuc%2Cmime%2Cns%2Crqh%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Clmt&lsparams=met%2Cmh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Crms%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=AGluJ3MwRAIgfrSPVC5WKUBwTkLrhhlfObuzU1I9Q6YnVHlEc4xr3WsCIFX-v2H25G-EAB3w4k2GxL8iC_EGJsLbw1tTwyxg3_Xm&sig=AJfQdSswRgIhAJw8HKfJPKZF6KZ6B3fmjsRWaw1v7bqnjX6pTPgVdnDYAiEAlDlOZytIk8DOCSLiucAqEKLRKsB79Twp-wchvmMNLwI%3D"
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/app/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 3489, in process_info
    success, real_download = self.dl(temp_filename, info_dict)
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/app/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 3209, in dl
    return fd.download(name, new_info, subtitle)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/app/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/downloader/common.py", line 464, in download
    ret = self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/app/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/downloader/http.py", line 367, in real_download
    establish_connection()
  File "/app/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/downloader/http.py", line 118, in establish_connection
    ctx.data = self.ydl.urlopen(request)
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/app/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 4172, in urlopen
    return self._request_director.send(req)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/app/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/networking/common.py", line 117, in send
    response = handler.send(request)
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/app/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/networking/_helper.py", line 208, in wrapper
    return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/app/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/networking/common.py", line 340, in send
    return self._send(request)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/app/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/networking/_requests.py", line 365, in _send
    raise HTTPError(res, redirect_loop=max_redirects_exceeded)
yt_dlp.networking.exceptions.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

[nlogozzo]

This is a known yt-dlp issue: yt-dlp/yt-dlp#11868

There is an update for yt-dlp that I can push to Parabolic that should fix some of the 403 errors. But the recommend fix it to upload a cookies file to Parabolic in Preferences. But this can result in google account ban.

Google is getting smarter and trying to break yt-dlp more and more every day.

[Louis2024ht]

For me also, jpg only now, instead of mp3 or mp4, while everything was still working perfect 2 or 3 days ago. Btw, where do you get these error logs that are posted here ?

[jgcanete]

Hello Louis --->
" Btw, where do you get these error logs that are posted here ? "
I dont't know what's your parabolic version, but in your screenshot in Completed Tab I only can see "Retry" button , not "Show Log" button :((

[nlogozzo]

@Louis2024ht is using the Qt Windows version of the app.

You can click on the download row itself and a log will appear on the bottom part of the app.

[nlogozzo]

I will fix this issue today been reading on yt-dlp everyone is having issues :/