Add ytInitialPlayerResponse checker to let user easily know problem #3027
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Today I have tried use you-get to download video from YouTube. I noticed one of my hosts from OVH Cloud FR failed to download the example video:
In advanced investigation, I noticed that the returned
ytInitialPlayerResponse
which raised exception have the following format:Which a normal
ytInitialPlayerResponse
from my another host should look like this:The content inner
playabilityStatus
has the answer whyytInitialPlayerResponse
can not return video details:I submit this commit to raise AssertionError to users when returned status is not okay, this error message helps user know about what happened.
After this commit, user could get a better error message like this: