livestream_saver does not handle age-restricted videos correctly

[mechalincoln]

Hey. This app worked for a long time, but the streamer I watch started to change his streams to age-restricted, and now livestream_saver no longer works.

I have included a gif showing what happens, even after providing correct login credentials.

Please look into why livestream_saver is not handling age restricted streams.

Thank you.

[glubsy]

Thanks for reporting.

I believe there is no other way than providing cookies of a logged-in session in order to work around this issue. You can do so with the --cookies flag on the command line, or in the config file. Cookies should be formatted in Netscape format (as in most cases).

It's actually mentioned in the top part of the README.md file. ;)

Non logged-in users are most likely blocked from accessing age restricted videos.

[mechalincoln]

I did that, and this is what still happens.

[mechalincoln]

Even with a formatted Netscape cookies file, it will do this.

[glubsy]

Can you share the channel Identifier or at least its name so that I try to test that out?

[mechalincoln]

Thank you.

The channel ID is UCeajjc71kLsu9hVDkFvRHjg

He streams randomly, which is why I need this service.

FYI it's prank calls and lots of cussing, so not the most important thing, but something fun.

[glubsy]

Can you confirm you can view the live streams with your logged-in account? Perhaps your account is blocked for whatever reason.

I'll monitor that channel for a while and keep an eye for that error.

[mechalincoln]

Yes, I can confirm that I can view them with my logged in account.

Thank you again.

[mechalincoln]

I think he's on now but age restriction is not enabled, so the script is currently working. If it does come on I'll let you know.

[mechalincoln]

He made that video age-restricted after awhile.

The script is erroring out like in the gif now.

[glubsy]

Indeed I managed to reproduce the bug. I got 2 hours of the last stream (id was kwVwhylnMsk) and I assume it was not over when the recording stopped.

That will require some investigation and some work.
For now what I suggest is trying to record with yt-dlp and see if that solves your problem (they might have implemented a workaround for the age restriction). You can spawn yt-dlp automatically if you follow the README.md carefully. Just don't forget to provide your session cookies to it just in case they are required to bypass the age restriction.

[mechalincoln]

Understood.

Thank you again for investigating. 😃

[mechalincoln]

On a somewhat unrelated note, livestream_saver is not currently detecting any videos either for that or another channel I watch, both of which have several videos.

I know that youtube has been screwing around with their interface lately, so that may be why.

[mechalincoln]

It's currently showing zero videos for both, when I know there are many more than zero videos for each.

[glubsy]

This is a separate issue that has been reported in #50 already.