Stream broken: Episode is released, but no valid sources.

[sahil-k-george]

Make sure you are on the latest version by running ani-cli -U

Metadata
Version: 4.14.1
OS: Termux, Arch 7.0.5
Shell: bash, zsh
Anime: All animes

Describe the bug
The output stream is broken, it shows the given error on all devices.

Steps To Reproduce

1. Run ani-cli Tensura
2. Choose 1
3. Choose episode 1

Expected behavior
Video streaming should work

Screenshots

[Dextricity]

ani-cli not working

Describe the bug:
The output stream appears to be broken. When attempting to play any anime, ani-cli fails and shows the same error on all tested devices.

To Reproduce:

1. Run ani-cli.
2. Select any anime.
3. Attempt to start playback.
4. The stream fails and the error is displayed.

Metadata:
ani-cli Version: 4.14.1
OS: Ubuntu
Shell: bash

Affected Anime: All anime titles tested

Screenshot:

[BigMel1388]

it still doesnt work tho

[Pulok-Akibuzzaman]

Yes facing the same issue

[Soumyadeep-Dey123]

Facing the same issue, was working 12-14 hrs ago

Os : ubuntu v24
shell : bash

[aarabdh]

It is a problem with api.allanime.day/api that is used to get the source URLs. it is giving this error:

{"errors":[{"message":"NEED_CAPTCHA","locations":[{"line":7,"column":1}],"path":["episode"],"extensions":{"code":"INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR"}}],"data":{"episode":null}}

I noticed it is behind some Cloudflare protection. This error can be seen by printing the response from api_resp.
Also can be seen running this curl query (insert disclaimer to not run random curl commands on the internet):

curl -e https://youtu-chan.com -sG -A 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:150.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/150.0' -H 'Origin: https://youtu-chan.com' 'https://api.allanime.day/api' --data-urlencode 'variables={"showId":"2P7kFgthrEfRRkcdm","translationType":"sub","episodeString":"2"}' --data-urlencode 'extensions={"persistedQuery":{"version":1,"sha256Hash":"d405d0edd690624b66baba3068e0edc3ac90f1597d898a1ec8db4e5c43c00fec"}}'

[ImonChakraborty]

It is a problem with api.allanime.day/api that is used to get the source URLs. it is giving this error:

{"errors":[{"message":"NEED_CAPTCHA","locations":[{"line":7,"column":1}],"path":["episode"],"extensions":{"code":"INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR"}}],"data":{"episode":null}}

I noticed it is behind some Cloudflare protection. This error can be seen by printing the response from api_resp. Also can be seen running this curl query (insert disclaimer to not run random curl commands on the internet):

curl -e https://youtu-chan.com -sG -A 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:150.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/150.0' -H 'Origin: https://youtu-chan.com' 'https://api.allanime.day/api' --data-urlencode 'variables={"showId":"2P7kFgthrEfRRkcdm","translationType":"sub","episodeString":"2"}' --data-urlencode 'extensions={"persistedQuery":{"version":1,"sha256Hash":"d405d0edd690624b66baba3068e0edc3ac90f1597d898a1ec8db4e5c43c00fec"}}'

does work

[dayem-saeed]

It is a problem with api.allanime.day/api that is used to get the source URLs. it is giving this error:
{"errors":[{"message":"NEED_CAPTCHA","locations":[{"line":7,"column":1}],"path":["episode"],"extensions":{"code":"INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR"}}],"data":{"episode":null}}
I noticed it is behind some Cloudflare protection. This error can be seen by printing the response from api_resp. Also can be seen running this curl query (insert disclaimer to not run random curl commands on the internet):
curl -e https://youtu-chan.com -sG -A 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:150.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/150.0' -H 'Origin: https://youtu-chan.com' 'https://api.allanime.day/api' --data-urlencode 'variables={"showId":"2P7kFgthrEfRRkcdm","translationType":"sub","episodeString":"2"}' --data-urlencode 'extensions={"persistedQuery":{"version":1,"sha256Hash":"d405d0edd690624b66baba3068e0edc3ac90f1597d898a1ec8db4e5c43c00fec"}}'

does work

Facing the same issue here. I get the captcha when running the query:
{"errors":[{"message":"NEED_CAPTCHA","locations":[{"line":7,"column":1}],"path":["episode"],"extensions":{"code":"INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR"}}],"data":{"episode":null}}

[naveensrinivas282]

Duplicate of #1744

Try running - sudo ani-cli -U

[dayem-saeed]

Already ran it and verified version as 4.14.1 prior to running the query

[aarabdh]

Duplicate of #1744

Try running - sudo ani-cli -U

Did not work. Seems some of us are facing the issue of needing captcha and some aren't.

[sahil-k-george]

Duplicate of #1744

Try running - sudo ani-cli -U

That issue is based on version 4.13 which was technically resolved at the time. It was supposed to be closed...
This issue is based on 4.14.1 . So..., yeah, both are different imo.

[kushcoded]

Same issue on scoop V 4.14.1 and fedora 44 copr that never got updated to latest version

[TrulyVagabond]

I tried using vpn and it got fixed. my OS is Linux Mint, used nordvpn cli. and connected it to US.