yewtube: runtime failure

[eclairevoyant]

Describe the bug

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/nix/store/z7xxy35k7620hs6fn6la5fg2lgklv72l-python3-3.12.4/lib/python3.12/threading.py", line 1073, in _bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/nix/store/z7xxy35k7620hs6fn6la5fg2lgklv72l-python3-3.12.4/lib/python3.12/threading.py", line 1010, in run
    self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
  File "/nix/store/qr6xq92s3yill44gxj2wabcdfp9ir0l8-yewtube-2.10.5/lib/python3.12/site-packages/mps_youtube/streams.py", line 196, in _preload
    get_size(ytid, stream['url'], preloading=True)
                   ~~~~~~^^^^^^^
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable

when selecting a video

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. run yt
2. search for a video (/searchstring)
3. type in 1 and press enter

Expected behavior

no error

Screenshots

n/a

Additional context

seems related to the python 3.12 changes, but I didn't bisect

Notify maintainers

@fgaz @k0ral

Metadata

tested on current master (4c68bf5)

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[fgaz]

Could you check whether yt-dlp works on the same video? yewtube uses that to get the stream

[eclairevoyant]

It was working fine with mpv (which also uses yt-dlp in my setup).
In any case... it seems to be working now, sorry for the noise.

[eclairevoyant]

The ghosts have returned...

Here's an example:

1. search user bobbialthoff
2. play the first video (has Matt Rife in the title)

yewtube errors at both steps

mpv 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hQWw95rjm8' and yt-dlp 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hQWw95rjm8' work fine

[fgaz]

The upstream issue seems to be mps-youtube/yewtube#1280

Playing just the audio as suggested here works

[eclairevoyant]

In that case I surmise they're not using yt-dlp at all, and trying to roll their own extraction mechanism, in which case we'd eventually have to drop the package.

[fgaz]

It does use yt-dlp. However I think the issue is the youtube-search-python dependency, which is sadly unmaintained. Yewtube can't get to the point where it calls yt-dlp because it fails at the search stage.

The yewtube maintainer expressed their opinion about youtube-search-python here: mps-youtube/yewtube#1040 (comment)

So it looks like it might get fixed at some point

[fgaz]

:O it started working again on its own