org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.extractors.YoutubeStreamExtractor$DecryptException: Could not parse decrypt function

[cion49235]

org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.extractors.YoutubeStreamExtractor$DecryptException: Could not parse decrypt function

{
"user_action": "requested stream",
"request": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C8CptPlllQ",
"content_language": "GB",
"service": "YouTube",
"package": "org.schabi.newpipe.debug",
"version": "0.18.0",
"os": "Linux Android 10 - 29",
"time": "2020-01-24 14:08",
"exceptions": [
"org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.extractors.YoutubeStreamExtractor$DecryptException: Could not parse decrypt function \n\tat org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.extractors.YoutubeStreamExtractor.loadDecryptionCode(YoutubeStreamExtractor.java:849)\n\tat org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.extractors.YoutubeStreamExtractor.onFetchPage(YoutubeStreamExtractor.java:716)\n\tat org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.Extractor.fetchPage(Extractor.java:54)\n\tat org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.stream.StreamInfo.getInfo(StreamInfo.java:64)\n\tat org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.stream.StreamInfo.getInfo(StreamInfo.java:60)\n\tat org.schabi.newpipe.util.ExtractorHelper.lambda$getStreamInfo$3(ExtractorHelper.java:115)\n\tat org.schabi.newpipe.util.-$$Lambda$ExtractorHelper$5fJcha6Sq5APJBLdG6osaJby-mc.call(Unknown Source:4)\n\tat io.reactivex.internal.operators.single.SingleFromCallable.subscribeActual(SingleFromCallable.java:44)\n\tat io.reactivex.Single.subscribe(Single.java:3438)\n\tat io.reactivex.internal.operators.single.SingleDoOnSuccess.subscribeActual(SingleDoOnSuccess.java:35)\n\tat io.reactivex.Single.subscribe(Single.java:3438)\n\tat io.reactivex.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeFromSingle.subscribeActual(MaybeFromSingle.java:41)\n\tat io.reactivex.Maybe.subscribe(Maybe.java:4154)\n\tat io.reactivex.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray$ConcatMaybeObserver.drain(MaybeConcatArray.java:153)\n\tat io.reactivex.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray$ConcatMaybeObserver.request(MaybeConcatArray.java:78)\n\tat io.reactivex.internal.operators.flowable.FlowableElementAtMaybe$ElementAtSubscriber.onSubscribe(FlowableElementAtMaybe.java:66)\n\tat io.reactivex.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray.subscribeActual(MaybeConcatArray.java:42)\n\tat io.reactivex.Flowable.subscribe(Flowable.java:14479)\n\tat io.reactivex.internal.operators.flowable.FlowableElementAtMaybe.subscribeActual(FlowableElementAtMaybe.java:36)\n\tat io.reactivex.Maybe.subscribe(Maybe.java:4154)\n\tat io.reactivex.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeToSingle.subscribeActual(MaybeToSingle.java:46)\n\tat io.reactivex.Single.subscribe(Single.java:3438)\n\tat io.reactivex.internal.operators.single.SingleSubscribeOn$SubscribeOnObserver.run(SingleSubscribeOn.java:89)\n\tat io.reactivex.Scheduler$DisposeTask.run(Scheduler.java:578)\n\tat io.reactivex.internal.schedulers.ScheduledRunnable.run(ScheduledRunnable.java:66)\n\tat io.reactivex.internal.schedulers.ScheduledRunnable.call(ScheduledRunnable.java:57)\n\tat java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)\n\tat java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:301)\n\tat java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1167)\n\tat java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641)\n\tat java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:919)\nCaused by: org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.utils.Parser$RegexException: failed to find pattern ";([A-Za-z0-9_\$]{2})\...\( inside of var lea=function(a){a=a.split("");var b=[function(c,d){d=(d%c.length+c.length)%c.length;c.splice(-d).reverse().forEach(function(e){return c.unshift(e)};"\n\tat org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.utils.Parser.matchGroup(Parser.java:73)\n\tat org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.utils.Parser.matchGroup(Parser.java:61)\n\tat org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.utils.Parser.matchGroup1(Parser.java:52)\n\tat org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.extractors.YoutubeStreamExtractor.loadDecryptionCode(YoutubeStreamExtractor.java:836)\n\t... 30 more\n"
],
"user_comment": ""
}

[drewkime]

Same error here. On the latest version 0.18.1. Thumbnails and comments appear, this error is when trying to play a video.

[rohan-sircar]

Same here.

[gkeegan]

Update to new version. See the Readme's "Update" section for instructions.

[B0pol]

duplicate of #2981
You must to update the app

[Narcolapser]

Can confirm. I updated manually by downloading the APK. However, this required me to uninstall the app and reinstall it, losing my configuration in the process. Any idea when fdroid will have the new APK?

[B0pol]

Can confirm. I updated manually by downloading the APK. However, this required me to uninstall the app and reinstall it, losing my configuration in the process. Any idea when fdroid will have the new APK?

Go in settings, content, export database
Uninstall your app, download and install v0.18.2 from github, and go in content settings, import database, pick the file you just exported

For your information, 0.18.1 took 4 days to be available in F-Droid

[cyphar]

From memory, there were discussions a year or two ago to make it so that the regexes used for extracting stream information are user-modifiable (or provided over the network), since most of the YouTube breakages are related to the regex no longer matching the newest version of YouTube's JavaScript. Have those discussions stalled? To be fair, #1981 appears to be a nicer solution to this problem but it seems like having the regular expressions be user-modifiable (with a "reset to defaults" button) would allow for people to hot-fix their NewPipe installations while we wait for the fixed version to be available in F-Droid.