AssertionError when using yt-dlp to download from YouTube through gallery-dl (update to newest version of gdl in the actions tab)

[Ari-Star-Speckled-Tanuki]

I've looked through my galler-dl config file, but I can't seem to figure out where I went wrong. I even did away with the yt-dlp config file and added all that data into gdl, but I still get the same error.

PS C:\Apps> gdl --verbose https://www.youtube.com/@ViralGenesis                                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                                                        
C:\Apps>gallery-dl --verbose https://www.youtube.com/@ViralGenesis                                                                                                                                      
[gallery-dl][debug] Version 1.27.4-dev:2024.09.01 - Executable (dev/windows)                                                                                                                            
[gallery-dl][debug] Python 3.12.5 - Windows-11-10.0.22631-SP0                                                                                                                                           
[gallery-dl][debug] requests 2.31.0 - urllib3 2.2.2                                                                                                                                                     
[gallery-dl][debug] Configuration Files ['%APPDATA%\\gallery-dl\\config.json']                                                                                                                          
[gallery-dl][debug] Starting DownloadJob for 'https://www.youtube.com/@ViralGenesis'                                                                                                                    
[ytdl][debug] Using YoutubeDLExtractor for 'https://www.youtube.com/@ViralGenesis'                                                                                                                      
[cookies][debug] Extracting cookies from C:\Users\ariha\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\64ym2bhh.default-release\cookies.sqlite                                                                
[cookies][debug] Only loading cookies not belonging to any container                                                                                                                                    
[cookies][info] Extracted 355 cookies from Firefox                                                                                                                                                      
[ytdl][debug] Using <module 'yt_dlp' from 'C:\\Users\\ariha\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\_MEI97562\\yt_dlp\\__init__.pyc'>                                                                                    
[ytdl][debug] [youtube:tab] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/@ViralGenesis                                                                                                                       
[ytdl][debug] [youtube:tab] @ViralGenesis: Downloading webpage                                                                                                                                          
[ytdl][debug] [youtube:tab] Downloading all uploads of the channel. To download only the videos in a specific tab, pass the tab's URL                                                                   
[ytdl][debug] [youtube:tab] @ViralGenesis/streams: Downloading webpage                                                                                                                                  
[ytdl][debug] [youtube:tab] @ViralGenesis/shorts: Downloading webpage                                                                                                                                   
[ytdl][debug] [youtube:tab] Downloading as multiple playlists, separated by tabs. To download as a single playlist instead, pass https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUwuMwHtnseX2g4qFg5COlOA         
[ytdl][debug] [download] Downloading playlist: Viral Genesis                                                                                                                                            
[ytdl][debug] [youtube:tab] Playlist Viral Genesis: Downloading 3 items of 3                                                                                                                            
[ytdl][debug] [download] Downloading item 1 of 3                                                                                                                                                        
[ytdl][debug] [download] Downloading playlist: Viral Genesis - Videos                                                                                                                                   
[ytdl][debug] [youtube:tab] UCwuMwHtnseX2g4qFg5COlOA page 1: Downloading API JSON                                                                                                                       
[ytdl][debug] [youtube:tab] Playlist Viral Genesis - Videos: Downloading 55 items of 55                                                                                                                 
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[ytdl][debug] [download] Finished downloading playlist: Viral Genesis - Videos                                                                                                                          
[ytdl][debug] [download] Downloading item 2 of 3                                                                                                                                                        
[ytdl][debug] [download] Downloading playlist: Viral Genesis - Live                                                                                                                                     
[ytdl][debug] [youtube:tab] Playlist Viral Genesis - Live: Downloading 1 items of 1                                                                                                                     
[ytdl][debug] [download] Downloading item 1 of 1                                                                                                                                                        
[ytdl][debug] [download] Finished downloading playlist: Viral Genesis - Live                                                                                                                            
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[ytdl][debug] [download] Downloading playlist: Viral Genesis - Shorts                                                                                                                                   
[ytdl][debug] [youtube:tab] Playlist Viral Genesis - Shorts: Downloading 2 items of 2                                                                                                                   
[ytdl][debug] [download] Downloading item 1 of 2                                                                                                                                                        
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[ytdl][debug] [download] Finished downloading playlist: Viral Genesis - Shorts                                                                                                                          
[ytdl][debug] [download] Finished downloading playlist: Viral Genesis                                                                                                                                   
[ytdl][debug] Using download archive 'C:/Apps/Tools - Utilities/DL-Files/archive/ytdl_archive.sqlite3'                                                                                                  
[ytdl][debug] Active postprocessor modules: [MetadataPP]                                                                                                                                                
[ytdl][error] An unexpected error occurred: AssertionError - . Please run gallery-dl again with the --verbose flag, copy its output and report this issue on https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/issues .
[ytdl][debug]                                                                                                                                                                                           
Traceback (most recent call last):                                                                                                                                                                      
  File "gallery_dl\job.py", line 152, in run                                                                                                                                                            
  File "gallery_dl\job.py", line 195, in dispatch                                                                                                                                                       
  File "gallery_dl\job.py", line 329, in handle_url                                                                                                                                                     
  File "gallery_dl\job.py", line 495, in download                                                                                                                                                       
  File "gallery_dl\downloader\ytdl.py", line 75, in download                                                                                                                                            
  File "gallery_dl\downloader\ytdl.py", line 134, in _download_playlist                                                                                                                                 
  File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 3195, in process_info                                                                                                                                                
AssertionError                                                                                                                                                                                          
PS C:\Apps>                                                                                                                                                                                            

[Ari-Star-Speckled-Tanuki]

It didn't like that many lines in the text box and my browser was lagging, so here is the rest from my config file:

{
    "extractor":
    {
        "base-directory": "K:/Data/Art/gallery-dl",
        "parent-directory": false,
        "path-restrict": {
            ":" : "-",
			"|" : "-",
			"/" : "_",
			"\\" : "_",
			"*" : "",
			"?" : "",
			"\"" : "",
            "<" : "[",
            ">" : "﹥]"
        },
        "postprocessors": [
		{
			"name": "ugoira",
            "whitelist": ["pixiv", "danbooru"],
            "extension": "gif",
            "ffmpeg-args": ["-filter_complex", "[0:v] split [a][b];[a] palettegen [p];[b][p] paletteuse"],
            "repeat-last-frame": false
		}
		],
        "archive": "C:/Apps/Tools - Utilities/DL-Files/archive/{category}_archive.sqlite3",
        "cookies": ["firefox"],
        "cookies-update": true,
        "proxy": null,
        "skip": true,

        "user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0",
        "retries": 100,
        "timeout": 30.0,
        "verify": true,
        "fallback": true,

        "sleep": 0,
        "sleep-request": 0,
        "sleep-extractor": 0,

        "path-replace": "_",
        "path-remove": "\\u0000-\\u001f\\u007f",
        "path-strip": "auto",
        "extension-map": {
            "jpeg": "jpg",
            "jpe" : "jpg",
            "jfif": "jpg",
            "jif" : "jpg",
            "jfi" : "jpg"
        },

Started on individual extractors...
Skipping down to ytdl extractor:

        "ytdl":
        {
            "enabled": true,
            "format": "bestvideo*+bestaudio/best",
			"module": "yt_dlp",
			"config-file" : null,
            "generic": true,
            "logging": true,
			"raw-options":
			{
				"parse-metadata": "title:%(meta_title)s",
				"S": "lang:en,width,hdr:DV,fps,acodec,asr,abr,channels,+size,br",
				"sub-format": "ass/srt/vtt/best",
				"write-subs": true,
				"sub-langs": "en-US,ja-JP,en,ja,-live_chat",
				"yes-playlist": true,
				"no-overwrites": true,
				"no-post-overwrites": true,
				"retries": "infinite",
				"fragment-retries": "infinite",
				"merge-output-format": "mkv",
				"user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/116.0",
				"ffmpeg-location": "C:/Apps/Editors - Media/ffmpeg/bin/ffmpeg.exe",
				"audio-multistreams":true
			},
			"postprocessors": [
            {
				"directory": "K:/Data/Art/gallery-dl (finished)/_META/ytdl",
				"name": "metadata",
				"mode": "custom",
				"extension-format": "txt",
				"content-format": ["{channel|uploader!C:?Channel or Uploader: //}{playlist:?\nPlaylist: '/' /}{playlist_index:? (/)/}","{fulltitle:?Title: '/'/}","{tags!S:?Tags: '/'/}","Height: {height}px","Width: {width}px","{webpage_url:?Link: //}","\n\n\n\n\n\n\n{description}"],
				"event": "after"
			}
            ],
			"directory": ["{category!C}", "{channel|uploader!C}", "{playlist:?//}"],
			"filename": "{channel|uploader!C} - {release_date[0:4]|upload_date[0:4]}-{release_date[4:6]|upload_date[4:6]}-{release_date[6:8]|upload_date[6:8]}, {playlist:?'/' /}{playlist_index:? (/), /}'{title!C}' - {subcategory!C}.{extension}"
        },

And the downloader and output segments:

    "downloader":
    {
        "filesize-min": null,
        "filesize-max": null,
        "mtime": true,
        "part": true,
        "part-directory": null,
        "progress": 3.0,
        "rate": null,
        "retries": 4,
        "timeout": 30.0,
        "verify": true,

        "http":
        {
            "adjust-extensions": true,
            "headers": null
        },

        "ytdl":
        {
            "format": "bestvideo*+bestaudio/best",
            "forward-cookies": true,
			"config-file" : null,
            "logging": true,
            "module": "yt_dlp",
            "outtmpl": null
        }
    },

    "output":
    {
        "mode": "auto",
        "progress": true,
        "shorten": true,
        "ansi": false,
        "colors": {
            "success": "1;32",
            "skip"   : "2"
        },
        "skip": false,
        "log": null,
		"format": {
			"debug"  : "debug: {message}",
			"info"   : "[{name}] {message}",
			"warning": "Warning: {message}",
			"error"  : "ERROR: {message}"
		}
    },

    "netrc": false
}

[Ari-Star-Speckled-Tanuki]

Just realized the formatting from copying to this issue is abysmal. Let me know if it's hard to read, and I will try to make it neater.

[mikf]

  File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 3195, in process_info                                                                                                                                                
AssertionError                                                                           

gallery-dl triggers this error by calling one of yt-dlp's functions with the wrong argument type. This probably happens when handling a playlist of playlists.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/e8e6a982a1b659eed434d225d7922f632bac6568/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py#L3219

[Ari-Star-Speckled-Tanuki]

Thank you.

So I assume then that by trying to download a whole channel, EX: gallery-dl --verbose https://www.youtube.com/@ViralGenesis , it is then compiling a playlist of playlists as it notes here:

[ytdl][debug] [youtube:tab] Downloading as multiple playlists, separated by tabs. To download as a single playlist instead, pass https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUwuMwHtnseX2g4qFg5COlOA

Is there any way to download whole channels, then, by specifying the channel link? Or will I need to go and download each tab separate (IE. the videos tab, live, shorts, etc.)?

[mikf]

Using https://www.youtube.com/@ViralGenesis as URL already downloads from all tabs, where each tab is given as a separate playlist by yt-dlp as I understand it, but gallery-dl combines them all into one big "playlist" anyway. Or you use https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUwuMwHtnseX2g4qFg5COlOA as URL as stated by yt-dlp to have all channel videos in one real playlist.

[Ari-Star-Speckled-Tanuki]

Okay, thank you. Does gallery-dl -K <Youtube Channel> provide that link so I don't need to attempt download to find it?

[mikf]

It provides channel_id (UCwuMwHtnseX2g4qFg5COlOA) and channel_url (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwuMwHtnseX2g4qFg5COlOA), which only need some small changes to become https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUwuMwHtnseX2g4qFg5COlOA, but I'm pretty sure you can just use https://www.youtube.com/@ViralGenesis and get the same results.

For this channel, https://www.youtube.com/@ViralGenesis is only missing two offline live streams that never started from a few years ago. It would probably be best if you asked the actual yt-dlp devs what's the difference between the two or searched their issue tracker.

[Ari-Star-Speckled-Tanuki]

Okay. Thank you. I think I understand now.

Have a good day.