YouTube Music

[OzGav]

Music Assistant has support for the Youtube Music provider

DISCLAIMER
Please note that Youtube does not offer an official API to retrieve data and streams. This means that everything we built is on a best-effort basis. Unexpected behavior will occur whilst using this provider. For this reason if you have another streaming provider you may find it more convenient to use that instead of this one.

Documentation https://music-assistant.io/music-providers/youtube-music/

[jabastien]

Authenticate on YouTube music does not work for me. MA server (docker) does not redirect to Google OAuth page for granting access. I get a spinning wheel on clicking the "AUTHENTICATE ON YOUTUBE MUSIC" button. Same issue in both Chrome and Firefox.

>>> "A new window will open. Ignore the code and click 'Next'" THIS DOES NOT WORK FOR ME.

Running in docker as per server /docker-compose.example.yml.

[OzGav]

@MarvinSchenkel thoughts?

[MarvinSchenkel]

Does the popup work for any other music providers like Tidal?

[fsquillace]

Hi all, YT music works good most of the time but sometimes when MA moves to the next track in the queue, MA start playing the next song until it reaches 4 seconds then it restarts over. It seems getting stuck indefinitely. If I change to the next song or pause/play manually it works again. Have you observed the same issue? Any ways to fix it?

Thank you for the great work!

[OzGav]

There are related issues https://github.com/music-assistant/hass-music-assistant/issues/1554 and https://github.com/music-assistant/hass-music-assistant/issues/1573 and https://github.com/music-assistant/hass-music-assistant/issues/1490

So keep an eye on when those get resolved and if you still have a problem then raise an issue for your particular case.

[fsquillace]

Ok, thanks. From a quick look they seems unrelated. Anyway, I will wait until those issues get fixed.

[peterleerental]

As a feature request I would much prefer YouTube videos in general rather than YouTube Music. Using Logitech Media Server we were able to listen to the audio from any YouTube video (audiobooks and TV programs such as quiz shows) but now we've moved over to Music Assistant I've found that the amount of stuff on YouTube Music is very restricted. Or am I being very dim?

[OzGav]

Certainly TTS messages are supported just not yet to the full extent of pausing and resuming the currently playing audio. I think barring playing audio from video sources you will find MA is pretty comprehensive but of course you will need to decide if it is the best of the available options.

[peterleerental]

And pause/resume is on your roadmap so I'm sticking with MASS! Thank you for all the work.

[MarvinSchenkel]

Videos should be supported already if you add them to a YT Music playlist. Just got to the webapp, search for the videos you want (under the videos category) and add them to a playlist. They should get synced to MA and you should be able to play them:

I don't think the entire Youtube library is available, but definitely 'music videos' and things like audio books / podcasts:

[peterleerental]

Only the videos within the YouTube music library are supported. My problem is that most of the things we listen to on the main YouTube site are not available on YTM. We listen mainly to 'unofficial' audiobooks and old TV or radio programmes. As an example; the YT video titled 'University Challenge Tuesday 1st September 1987 - University College Oxford vs Open University.' That's not on YTM.
It's not the end of the world but videos such as this and pause/resume with TTS messages would mean MASS has everything we want.
By the way, music IS sometimes resuming after TTS using the Play Media action in a HA automation and either Piper or Google, but it seems to resume music I was listening to yesterday!

[MarvinSchenkel]

I see your point. The YT Music provider will definitely not support this, since, well, it's not on Youtube Music :-). I am pretty sure we won't be adding a Youtube-provider since it is a huge hassle to keep anything Youtube-related up and running. The reason for this is that there is not an official integration with Youtube / Youtube Music.

[peterleerental]

Because when we used the Logitech Media Player (LMP) YouTube 'app' we weren't using YT for music but rather for the audio from videos such as recorded TV programs. After installing Music Assistant I looked at YouTube Music but I couldn't find any of the material we normally listen to. I've never used YTM before so perhaps I just wasn't searching properly.

[peterleerental]

I appreciate the difficullty and we can use bluetooth to send audio to the squeezelite players on Raspberry Pis, although it's a bit klunky (using Max2Play). I am still v. happy to use Music Assistant and look forward to new features on your road map. 26 Oct 2023 9:54:45 am Marvin Schenkel ***@***.***>:

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I see your point. The YT Music provider will definitely not support this, since, well, it's not on Youtube Music :-). I am pretty sure we won't be adding a Youtube-provider since it is a huge hassle to keep anything Youtube-related up and running. The reason for this is that there is not an official integration with Youtube / Youtube Music. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub[#1551 (reply in thread)], or unsubscribe[https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AJJVDPTFISKDUMWILYPH3ZDYBIJMHAVCNFSM6AAAAAA5TX6BMWVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43SRDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHM3TGOBZG4YDA]. You are receiving this because you commented.[Tracking image][https://github.com/notifications/beacon/AJJVDPT3ZPOJPPO4YP3YB5DYBIJMHA5CNFSM6AAAAAA5TX6BMWWGG33NNVSW45C7OR4XAZNRIRUXGY3VONZWS33OINXW23LFNZ2KUY3PNVWWK3TUL5UWJTQAODBAI.gif]

[Simpelton]

Signing into Youtube Musik does not work for me. I don`t get a popup window needed for the oAuth login. Only manage to get the time out message. Tried on Firefox on MacOs, in the iOS HomeAssistant app and on iOS Chrome.

My HA is working with a HTTP not HTTPS. Not sure if Google has issues with redirects from insecure sites.

Debug log does not show anything interesting.

2024-05-24 12:15:08.436 ERROR (MainThread) [music_assistant.webserver] Error handling message: CommandMessage(message_id=16, command='config/providers/get_entries', args={'provider_domain': 'ytmusic', 'action': 'auth', 'values': {'auth_token': None, 'refresh_token': None, 'expiry_time': None, 'token_type': None, 'log_level': 'GLOBAL', 'session_id': 'bot4ciO-sl6'}})
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/music_assistant/server/controllers/webserver.py", line 351, in _run_handler
result = await result
^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/music_assistant/server/controllers/config.py", line 238, in get_provider_config_entries
await prov_mod.get_config_entries(
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/music_assistant/server/providers/ytmusic/init.py", line 140, in get_config_entries
token = await login_oauth(auth_helper)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/music_assistant/server/providers/ytmusic/helpers.py", line 300, in login_oauth
code = await get_oauth_code(http_session)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/music_assistant/server/providers/ytmusic/helpers.py", line 314, in get_oauth_code
async with session.post(OAUTH_CODE_URL, json=data, headers=headers) as code_response:
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/aiohttp/client.py", line 1197, in aenter
self._resp = await self._coro
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/aiohttp/client.py", line 507, in _request
with timer:
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/aiohttp/helpers.py", line 735, in exit
raise asyncio.TimeoutError from None
TimeoutError

[MarvinSchenkel]

I think the popup does not work very well. Can you check on a desktop/laptop and ensure you do not have any popup blockers that prevent the oauth flow from running?

[Simpelton]

No change did enable pop ups, disabled AdBlock on FireFox, MacOs

[MarvinSchenkel]

I can't reproduce it as it seems to be working fine for me.

1. Can you try another provider that uses Oauth, e.g. Deezer? And see if the oauth pop up is working there
2. Can you try another browser on mac os, e.g. Chrome?
3. If that all fails, can you provide a screen recording?

[Simpelton]

1. Tried oAuth (clicked on authenticate) with Deezer. That opened a new TAB. It does not do that with youtube music
2. Tried on Win10 with Firefox and Chrome - enabled popups etc. Same behavior as above => screen goes grey, some "please wait I am busy" icon, then a time out. With Deezer, this also happens with the main window of HA / Musicassitant - but I do get a new tab where I could log into Deezer.

[Simpelton]

Works for me now (v2.0.7). A new browser tab is created for authentication with Google Youtube Music where I can follow through with the sing in process. Thx

[ncd7]

I just lost connection to YTMusic. Deleting and re-adding the provider fails to work :(. This is the first time this has happened to me. Not sure if they just changed something.

[SiboutVanLoo]

Same here, deleting and, re-authentication =
ERROR: [youtube+yt_access_token] XXXXXXXXXXX: Unable to download API page: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request (caused by <HTTPError 400: Bad Request>)

[rairulyle]

So I encountered multiple error before I can make YouTube music to work. And after checking the Browse, I saw duplicates and it seems to be related to the error I encounter. How can I remove them and leave just the working one?

[OzGav]

Have you tried restarting MA?

[lumper5]

Using the new (Nov 2024) cookie method apparently fails if you have a Google FAMILY account for YouTube Premium. I have such an account and when I copy and paste in my cookie info, I see "User Does Not Have a YouTube Music Premium Account". I then go to YTM, check account status, and my Family Account (US) is active and valid. I was using YT without issue before the Nov 2024 change.

[chicagoandy]

I see this was added to the docs: "If a Family Account is in use then setting up a dedicated account for MA will assist in maximising cookie life". I think I am seeing symptoms of short cookie life, I am getting error spammed in my logs every two minutes: 2024-12-10 07:32:06.650 WARNING (MainThread) [music_assistant] Error loading provider(instance) YouTube Music: User does not have Youtube Music Premium (will be retried later)

Are there any ways to improve cookie reliability with a family account?

[OzGav]

What that means is set up a another YTM user under your family plan for MA

[MarvinSchenkel]

For example, I have a 'smarthome' gmail account that I added to my family subscription. This is the account I solely use for MA.

[chicagoandy]

What that means is set up a another Spotify user under your family plan for MA

Spotify?

[OzGav]

typo

[jensweimann]

So if the cookie expires after some time, how about to read it from a shared file in the filesystem? For example in /config or some other shared folder. Then we could figure out a way to update the cookie with a script or automation like described here: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/FAQ#how-do-i-pass-cookies-to-yt-dlp

[OzGav]

@jensweimann if you come up with a workable solution then please share it.

[l33cuj3s]

Pasting images to preserve formatting from GPT. Please hide or ignore this suggestion if it is unhelpful, but the constant pasting of cookies is doing my head in.

[ncd7]

Question -- what permissions does that cookie impart? Is it strictly for YTM or also for other parts of the google account? Also, are we going the cookie route because YTM is not exposed via an oauth flow? Eg you can access your Google Tasks with oauth and the google dev console. I think it's a decent balance of security and convenience since the permissions you give access to are limited and you also don't need to keep doing this cookie business continuously. It now times out for me constantly. Thanks!

[szemod]

@jensweimann if you come up with a workable solution then please share it.
I created a small browser extension for easy cookie extraction, which can help simplify the extraction process.
https://github.com/szemod/YouTube-Music-Cookie-Extractor-1.0
Of course, this only solves part of the issue.

[Janeki-rgb]

where do I set the cookie path?

[Thorsten1982]

Hello, it may be that there is a new error again, I now always get the error when playing that the streaming details cannot be retrieved. I then tried to re-enter the cookie and got the following error message:

ERROR: [youtube] dQw4w9WgXcQ: Requested format is not available. Use --list-formats for a list of available formats

[MarvinSchenkel]

Update to beta 18 and read the docs on how to install the PO token addon.

[AquaWolf]

Thank you soooo much. I highly appreciate that solution 🤩

[Thorsten1982]

Thank you. How can I install the beta?

[MarvinSchenkel]

You can use the beta addon instead of the normal addon inside home assistant. We'll be doing a new stable release soon (ish) with this fix in there, so you can also wait a bit.

[nickythegreek]

Marvin,
Appreciate the info. I turned off my Music Assistant addon. I installed the beta 18 from the Addon store and ran it after installing the PO token addon and enabling. I go to setup youtube music, fill it out and when I click save, I get a popup "User does not have Youtube Music Premium". My cookies does has a "__Secure-3PAPISID" value. I tried my username, email and 21 digit brand number for Username. I do have a premium family accountin good standing.

Edit:
Issue resolved. I noticed the cookie I was getting from Zen Browser did not start with YSC= like in the doc screenshots. I tried Chrome, saw the cookie started with YSC= and used that. MA beta 18 took it without issue.

[leolionart]

I'm so tired of having to replace my Youtube token every day, it destroys my morning emotions when waking up with a random song from my favorite playlist every morning. I switched to the solution of syncing youtube playlists directly to nas and playing with plex media player. Genius idea!!!

https://github.com/meeb/tubesync

[Emoniz2007]

Hi! I discovered that this week. no more pain! lol

[quadcom]

I'm a little confused about how I can still sign in and authorize access to my YTM account when adding the source to a Sonos system or even in Tesla vehicles. But it no longer works here? Neither of those platforms requires me to pull a cookie in order for them to work.

Would it be an option to create our own app on Google Dev and create/use our own OAuth credentials to get this running again? I've done this many times for Kodi YT addons and others in the past.

[MarvinSchenkel]

As far as we know, companies like Sonos have access to a private YT Music API that does not have the restrictions we have. We basically are mimicking the webapp which is getting harder and harder with Google putting up these restrictions.

[ncd7]

So if we had the option of creating our own app on Google Dev that would get around that problem as far as I understand it.

Sure, it's a bit of a pain in the a$$ to set up but it would work. It's free to access and you can make up to 10000 calls/24 hours. For an app author where millions of peope are going to hit, that 10K limit would get hit in seconds. Individual app registrations wouldn't hit that number in a single day.

I was asking the same thing above. There are some HA integrations like say Google Tasks that take the approach. It took me all of 5 mins to set up and it's extremely reliable. You can also give fine-grain permission only to YTM (I'm unclear what permission the cookie approach gives you though likely it's just as limited). It will work pretty much until google decides to restrict free access even further but even if they made it 5000 or even 200 an individual is unlikely to hit it. Is there a reason we don't take that approach? I don't know enough about the mechanism to be sure but it seems like a great solution to me.

[ncd7]

See https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/google_tasks/
the section on "To generate client ID and client secret"

[MarvinSchenkel]

This might work in order to obtain library information, but will surely not work when trying to resolve stream urls for music playback. There's no know way to obtain this via an official channel.

[ncd7]

This might work in order to obtain library information, but will surely not work when trying to resolve stream urls for music playback. There's no know way to obtain this via an official channel.

Ah I see. I was hoping the APIs they expose would provide a way to stream (ie without going through stream URLs but via human readable title [though those are not unique]). I guess no such APIs are available for YTM 😭

[EmandM]

Is there any way to detect when the cookie is invalid? I don't mind switching the cookie out once I know about it, but I'd love to have some sort of alert to proactively tell me that I need to swap it, rather than music playback simply failing.

[Orgjvr]

I would also like to know.

[MarvinSchenkel]

That's a very good request. What kind of pro activity are you talking about? MA does not send any sort of notification.

[EmandM]

Some sort of entity that surfaces the state would be fantastic, then it's easy enough to work that entity into other automations

[wessamlauf]

YTM integration no longer works for me. I tried to re-do the cookie thing but I keep getting error - I tried multiple cookies.

ERROR: [youtube] dQw4w9WgXcQ: Requested format is not available. Use --list-formats for a list of available formats

[OzGav]

Are you running the beta?

[wessamlauf]

I am using version 2.4.4

[OzGav]

You need to be on the beta for now

[ProfessorManhattan]

The YouTube Music integration is not worth it. At best, I've been able to get it to stay connected until I sign in or out of my Google account.

[Thorsten1982]

Hello, is it possible that YouTube Music isn't working again? I get the following error message when I try to save the cookie: ERROR: [youtube+GetPOT] dQw4w9WgXcQ: Requested format is not available. Use --list-formats for a list of available formats.

I've installed the update for the YouTube Music PO Token Generator.

I just wanted to know if I'm making a mistake or if it's just not working.

[OzGav]

Are you running the beta? If not then you have to wait for the fix to be rolled out to stable. In the meantime you can upgrade the token generator to v1.1.0

[wildoracle]

Sorry for the screenshot, but this is the best Home Assistant error message ever.
"Stoplteration interacts badly with generators and cannot be raised into a Future"
achieved this gem by trying to validate my YouTube Music account in the main release. The same cookie text works in the dev/nightly build, but "mass" was causing Home Assistant to run out of memory and crash the entire system (!!) so I needed to uninstall it and go back to the main release.

[Thorsten1982]

Thank you, I've already updated the token generator from 1.1.0. How was it again that I could run the beta in parallel?

[OzGav]

https://www.music-assistant.io/release/

[Thorsten1982]

Hello, are you having problems with YouTube Music again? I'm getting an error message in the log again and can't play any music. I'm now using the beta version of the Music Assistant add-on. I can't access the cookie via the developer console anymore; I keep getting an error message there. I don't know if that's related to this or if Google has changed something again.

[MarvinSchenkel]

Yep Google changed something again. We fixed it and will release a new beta asap

[Thorsten1982]

It is broken again?

[fede021]

I'd like to suggest looking into the HACS integration ytube_music_player (https://github.com/KoljaWindeler/ytube_music_player), which has a very well-implemented OAuth token flow using credentials created in the Google Developer Console.
This could be a solid reference or base for improving or expanding the current YouTube Music integration in Music Assistant.

[TRusselo]

Why is this not a thing?

[ThatTallGuy21]

Is this broken again? I'm getting an error "User does not have YouTube Music Premium" which is not correct. I'm using MA and the YT Music PO Token Generator add-ons directly in HA. When I originally set this all up a few months ago it worked great. Since I haven't changed anything on my end, I'm guessing it's a Google thing. Anything I need to update, or do I need to wait for an update?

[ThatTallGuy21]

Server version: 2.5.5 as a Home Assistant add-on

[MarvinSchenkel]

The bug fix for this has not been released to stable yet. It's obly available in the latest beta unfortunately.

[ThatTallGuy21]

Got it- I can hold off and wait then. Thanks for the heads up! Appreciate all you guys do for this project.

[ajwnewkirk]

For awareness, I'm having the same problem running MA beta 2.6.0b14 Home Assistant add on. It had been working previously, but it's been a while since I used it. I am using a fresh cookie. Thank you for making this possible!

[MarvinSchenkel]

In that case, please open a github issue with a debug log so we can help you out.

[MopGitHub]

I cannot play my playlist via home assistant command on youtube music. Is there a way or what am I doing wrong here?

[OzGav]

You are not supplying a valid MEDIA ID. Look at the instructions. URI or NAME OF THE ITEM. Not a URL or random numbers and letters.

[MarvinSchenkel]

I think you have two options here:

• Provide a valid media id, such as: ytmusic://playlist/PLN_V7YvbzWCpHsXNr6wKjwo_jRi-yx1Ye
• For your second screenshot, write the media type with a lowercase p. So playlist and not Playlist.

[MopGitHub]

• ytmusic://playlist/

Thank you It's working now.

[kitopopo]

Hello everyone, I’m new to YouTube Music on Home Assistant. After entering the cookie, everything works fine for about 8 hours, but then it seems the cookie stops working. The log of the token generator appears to be doing its job, but sometimes I get this error:

<html>
<head><title>504 Gateway Time-out</title></head>
<body>
<center><h1>504 Gateway Time-out</h1></center>
<hr><center>openresty</center>
</body>
</html>
<!-- a padding to disable MSIE and Chrome friendly error page -->
<!-- a padding to disable MSIE and Chrome friendly error page -->
<!-- a padding to disable MSIE and Chrome friendly error page -->
<!-- a padding to disable MSIE and Chrome friendly error page -->
<!-- a padding to disable MSIE and Chrome friendly error page -->
<!-- a padding to disable MSIE and Chrome friendly error page -->

Could it be that the session lasts only around 8 hours? Do you also get this error, or is my YouTube token generator not working properly?

Thanks in advance.

[MarvinSchenkel]

Strange, I have never seen a 504 error for the YTM provider before. Is this a one time thing or is it happening consistently?

One thing that can expire cookies quite quickly is when you play music on the (web)app using the same account you used to obtain the cookie. Could this be causing your cookie expiration? For the best experience you need a dedicated account for MA unfortunately

[kitopopo]

Dear friends,
in case this helps anyone else who loses access to YouTube Music and gets the message “this user does not have a premium account”, I just discovered one of the possible causes.

I run Home Assistant inside a virtual machine on Proxmox. Whenever I stop the VM (either to create a snapshot or simply by shutting it down manually), after starting it again the cookie or token becomes invalid and I need to re-enter the cookie manually.

This does not happen when restarting Home Assistant or rebooting the VM — it only happens when the VM is completely stopped and then started again. I’ve tested this several times and the result is always the same: after restarting the VM from a full stop, YouTube Music no longer works.

@OzGav @MarvinSchenkel Is there any way to solve this issue? It’s a pity not to be able to take snapshots of HA when stopping the VM.

I hope this information helps others who lose their YTM session for the same reason.
Best regards.

[MarvinSchenkel]

That's an interesting find. I run HA on proxmox too but never thought about this pattern. I'll see if I can reproduce it. I'm pretty sure I've rebooted the VM without having to get a fresh cookie but haven't tried fully stopping it.

Any reason you're stopping the vm though? Can't remember the last time I've stopped my vm

[bb12ett]

I have started getting the following error this afternoon:

WARNING: [youtube] X7ymbi-uBtM: Signature extraction failed: Some formats may be missing player = https://www.youtube.com/s/player/2b83d2e0/player_ias.vflset/en_US/base.js Please report this issue on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using yt-dlp -U WARNING: Only images are available for download. use --list-formats to see them ERROR: [youtube] X7ymbi-uBtM: Requested format is not available. Use --list-formats for a list of available formats

I've refreshed the login cookie but still the same. Anybody else seeing this?

[MarvinSchenkel]

What version are you on? The latest beta has a mechanisme where reloading the YouTube provider installs the latest ytdlp to fix these problems as soon as they are fixed in ytdlp.

[bb12ett]

No I'm not on the Beta channel. I'm on 2.5.8. Will wait for the next release. Thanks

[Thorsten1982]

I have the same problem and use the current beta. okay after restarting the addon it works again

WARNING: [youtube] 8ySJJMu8ReY: Signature extraction failed: Some formats may be missing
         player = https://www.youtube.com/s/player/377ca75b/player_ias.vflset/en_US/base.js
         Please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using  yt-dlp -U
WARNING: Only images are available for download. use --list-formats to see them
ERROR: [youtube] 8ySJJMu8ReY: Requested format is not available. Use --list-formats for a list of available formats
2025-09-25 09:40:13.962 WARNING (MainThread) [music_assistant.audio] ERROR: [youtube] 8ySJJMu8ReY: Requested format is not available. Use --list-formats for a list of available formats
2025-09-25 09:40:13.963 WARNING (MainThread) [music_assistant.player_queues] Skipping unplayable item Helene Fischer - Herzbeben (ytmusic://track/8ySJJMu8ReY)
2025-09-25 09:40:13.963 ERROR (MainThread) [music_assistant] Error doing task: Task exception was never retrieved
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/app/venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/music_assistant/controllers/player_queues.py", line 854, in _play_index
    raise MediaNotFoundError("No playable item found to start playback")
music_assistant_models.errors.MediaNotFoundError: No playable item found to start playback

[MarvinSchenkel]

My bad, this feature actually already is available in 2.5.8. Try reloading the YTM provider and see if that fixes it for you

@bb12ett

[bb12ett]

No reloading the provider doesn't fix the issue.

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[LLBR88]

I've just started getting the same issue. I'm on the Beta release in Docker and I've refreshed the cookie, restarted the container and reloaded the provider.

WARNING: [youtube] dQw4w9WgXcQ: Signature extraction failed: Some formats may be missing
         player = https://www.youtube.com/s/player/377ca75b/player_ias.vflset/en_US/base.js
         Please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using  yt-dlp -U
WARNING: Only images are available for download. use --list-formats to see them
ERROR: [youtube] dQw4w9WgXcQ: Requested format is not available. Use --list-formats for a list of available formats```

[LLBR88]

Manually updated yt-dlp to latest version in Docker Exec. Now working again.

[bb12ett]

Looks Like this issue has been fixed on YT-DLP yt-dlp/yt-dlp#14400

This suggests running yt-dlp --update-to master if i run this via Portainer i get the following:

yt-dlp -- update-to master Current version: [email protected] from yt-dlp/yt-dlp Latest version: [email protected] from yt-dlp/yt-dlp-master-builds ERROR: You installed yt-dlp with pip or using the wheel from PyPi; Use that to update

I have then tried pip install --force-reinstall "yt-dlp[default] @ https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/archive/master.tar.gz"

this appeared to pull the latest pip install -- force-reinstall "yt-dlp[default] @ https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/archive/master.tar.gz" Collecting yt-dlp@ https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/archive/master.tar.gz (from yt-dlp[default]@ https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/archive/master.tar.gz) Using cached https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/archive/master.tar.gz (2.9 MB) Installing build dependencies ... done Getting requirements to build wheel Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) Collecting brotli (from yt-dlp@ https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/archive/master.tar.gz->yt-dlp[default]@ https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/archive/master.tar.gz) Using cached Brotli-1.1.0-cp313-cp313-musllinux_1_2_x86_64.whl.metadata (5.5 kB) Collecting certifi (from yt-dlp@ https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/archive/master.tar.gz->yt-dlp[default]@ https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/archive/master.tar.gz) Using cached certifi-2025.8.3-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (2.4 kB) Collecting mutagen (from yt-dlp@ https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/archive/master.tar.gz->yt-dlp[default]@ https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/archive/master.tar.gz) Using cached mutagen-1.47.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (1.7 kB) Collecting pycryptodomex (from yt-dlp@ https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/archive/master.tar.gz->yt-dlp[default]@ https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/archive/master.ta r.gz) Using cached pycryptodomex-3.23.0-cp37-abi3-musllinux_1_2_x86_64.whl.metadata (3.4 kB) Collecting requests<3,>=2.32.2 (from yt-dlp@ https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/archive/master.tar.gz->yt-dlp[default]@ https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/archive/mas ter.tar.gz) Using cached requests-2.32.5-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (4.9 kB) Collecting urllib3<3,>=2.0.2 (from yt-dlp@ https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/archive/master.tar.gz->yt-dlp[default] @ https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/archive/maste r.tar.gz) Using cached urllib3-2.5.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (6.5 kB) Collecting websockets>=13.0 (from yt-dlp@ https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/archive/master.tar.gz->yt-dlp[default] @ https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/archive/master .tar.gz) Using cached websockets-15.0.1-cp313-cp313-musllinux 1 2 x86_64.whl.metadata (6.8 kB) Collecting charset normalizer<4,>=2 (from requests<3,>=2.32.2->yt-dlp@ https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/archive/master.tar.gz->yt-dlp[default]@ https://github.com /yt-dlp/yt-dlp/archive/master.tar.gz) Using cached charset normalizer-3.4.3-cp313-cp313-musllinux 1_2 x86_64.whl.metadata (36 kB) Collecting idna<4,>=2.5 (from requests<3,>=2.32.2->yt-dlp@ https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/archive/master.tar.gz->yt-dlp[default]@ https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-d 1p/archive/master.tar.gz) Using cached idna-3.10-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (10 kB) Using cached requests-2.32.5-py3-none-any.whl (64 kB) Using cached charset normalizer-3.4.3-cp313-cp313-musllinux_1_2_x86_64.whl (152 kB) Using cached idna-3.10-py3-none-any.whl (70 kB) Using cached urllib3-2.5.0-py3-none-any.whl (129 kB) Using cached certifi-2025.8.3-py3-none-any.whl (161 kB) Using cached websockets-15.0.1-cp313-cp313-musllinux 1 2 x86_64.whl (182 kB) Using cached Brotli-1.1.0-cp313-cp313-musllinux 1 2 x86 64.whl (2.9 MB) Using cached mutagen-1.47.0-py3-none-any.whl (194 kB) Using cached pycryptodomex-3.23.0-cp37-abi3-musllinux_1_2_x86_64.whl (2.3 MB) Building wheels for collected packages: yt-dlp Building wheel for yt-dlp (pyproject.toml) ... done Created wheel for yt-dlp: filename=yt_dlp-2025.9.23-py3-none-any.whl size=2991539 sha256=1d4632bbf51f70ea9700b9742f0c973de303cdbc33bc14c5fb382cbae3697549 Stored in directory: /tmp/pip-ephem-wheel-cache-q11uq5cp/wheels/47/37/1e/86c8e08a3b535be59fea85c87237e95787ab7ba22cf8d4bb53 Successfully built yt-dlp Installing collected packages: brotli, yt-dlp, websockets, urllib3, pycryptodomex, mutagen, idna, charset_normalizer, certifi, requests Attempting uninstall: brotli Found existing installation: Brotli 1.1.0 Uninstalling Brotli-1.1.0: Successfully uninstalled Brotli-1.1.0 Attempting uninstall: yt-dlp Found existing installation: yt-dlp 2025.9.23 Uninstalling yt-dlp-2025.9.23: Successfully uninstalled yt-dlp-2025.9.23 Attempting uninstall: websockets Found existing installation: websockets 15.0.1 Uninstalling websockets-15.0.1: Successfully uninstalled websockets-15.0.1 Attempting uninstall: urllib3 Found existing installation: urllib3 2.5.0 Uninstalling urllib3-2.5.0: Successfully uninstalled urllib3-2.5.0 Attempting uninstall: pycryptodomex Found existing installation: pycryptodomex 3.23.0 Uninstalling pycryptodomex-3.23.0: Successfully uninstalled pycryptodomex-3.23.0 Attempting uninstall: mutagen Found existing installation: mutagen 1.47.0 Uninstalling mutagen-1.47.0: Successfully uninstalled mutagen-1.47.0 Attempting uninstall: idna Found existing installation: idna 3.10 Uninstalling idna-3.10: Successfully uninstalled idna-3.10 Attempting uninstall: charset normalizer Found existing installation: charset-normalizer 3.4.3 Uninstalling charset-normalizer-3.4.3: Successfully uninstalled charset-normalizer-3.4.3 Attempting uninstall: certifi Found existing installation: certifi 2025.8.3 Uninstalling certifi-2025.8.3: Successfully uninstalled certifi-2025.8.3 Attempting uninstall: requests Found existing installation: requests 2.32.5 Uninstalling requests-2.32.5: Successfully uninstalled requests-2.32.5 Successfully installed brotli-1.1.0 certifi-2025.8.3 charset_normalizer-3.4.3 idna-3.10 mutagen-1.47.0 pycryptodomex-3.23.0 requests-2.32.5 urllib3-2.5.0 websocke ts-15.0.1 yt-dlp-2025.9.23

This appeared to work but when i check the version I am still on 2025.9.05

[bb12ett]

Restarting the addon has fixed this following the above

[sdeegee]

I am getting the following error again:
ERROR: [youtube] dQw4w9WgXcQ: Requested format is not available. Use --list-formats for a list of available formats

I am not sure when it started -- it was some time this week. It happens even if I restart the YT Music PO Generator, or even if I do a full restart of HA.

Anyone else getting this one again?

[OzGav]

#4348

[sdeegee]

Ah thank you for that redirect @OzGav! Happy to patiently wait for a fix. I know y'all are good at updating once made aware of these issues.