Spotty issues with YouTube downloads on main instance

[dumorando]

bug description
no yt videos will download. all of them say "this youtube video is unavailable. it could be age or region restricted. try another one!"

reproduction steps
steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. go on cobalt.tools
2. download this video: any video from youtube
3. see error

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on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vclMrjci1rs for testing
same thing happens on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvCMv-oP8vc
and any other youtube link

network tab

links
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platform

• OS [e.g. iOS, windows] arch linux
• browser [e.g. chrome, safari, firefox] firefox
• version [e.g. 115] 126

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[lyh1028]

same error

[lostdusty]

youtube seems to be ratelimiting cobalt. try other instances in https://instances.hyper.lol

[dumorando]

oh

[wukko]

ratelimiting cobalt

not sure if that's the case, i feel like ipv6 network is dying yet again

[prajeshElEvEn]

I couldn't agree less. Youtube is rate limiting cobalt!
I tried to download this from here, and cobalt says that the video is unavailable. Hence, I tried the one of the other instance and voila, it works!

Thanks to @lostdusty for this.

Hereby I'm also attaching a screenshot for the same.

[wukko]

seems like invidious is also affected: iv-org/invidious#4734

[wukko]

main instance seems to be fine now, will close this issue and open it back up if google goes back to tormenting services that use innertube api

[wukko]

spoke too soon 😭

[wukko]

recreated the issue with more information and no guesses: #551