"This Video is Unavailable" message whenever I open a video

[babylonianhina]

Forgive me, I am a dumbass with very little web dev skills. I followed this guide on reddit to make a YT2009 instance and for the past 2 days it was working great, but now every video I click on redirects me to the main page with the message "This Video is Unavailable". Is there any fix for this? Please be easy on me

[ftde0]

hi, are you running yt2009 on a vps? your ip range could be blocked by youtube which could prevent videos from loading.

[babylonianhina]

I was hosting it on a free Render server as per the tutorial I followed

[ftde0]

as mentioned to #117, this sounds like yt-related changes. an option to work around those is being worked on.

[busybox11]

Same issue here, getting this error on an Oracle Cloud Linux instance. I did have issues hosting Cobalt before, that seemed related to IP blocking. Wouldn't surprise me.

[babylonianhina]

Update: I don't get the warning and tutorial to sign in when I open a video, I just get the same error. Is there a way I can do this manually?

[ftde0]

you can manually run node yt2009tvsignin.js from the /back/ directory. complete the setup, exit the script with ctrl+c and restart yt2009.

[babylonianhina]

I am so sorry, I am a novice and a dumbass so please forgive me if these constant questions are irritating, but can you give me a tutorial on how to go about that? I am not a coder or web dev by any means, just an enthusiast who followed a Reddit tutorial

[SuperLuigiKillz04]

if you're hosting this on render, the onscreen instructions are in the logs

[babylonianhina]

if you're hosting this on render, the onscreen instructions are in the logs

You are a lifesaver! thank you!