[Bug]: Subscriptions and Channel pages do not fetch content from Videos/Live tabs

[Daedalus1400]

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• I have encountered this bug in the latest release of FreeTube.
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• I have searched the issue tracker for open and closed issues that are similar to the bug report I want to file, without success.
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Describe the bug

1. Open FreeTube
2. There are no videos on the subscriptions page (in non RSS mode)

Expected Behavior

1. Open FreeTube
2. The subscriptions feed shows videos.

Issue Labels

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FreeTube Version

0.24.0 Beta

Operating System Version

Linux Mint 20.3

Installation Method

.deb

Primary API used

Local API

Last Known Working FreeTube Version (If Any)

0.24.0 Beta

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Additional Information

Using RSS feed still retrieves the videos correctly.

The live feed behaves the same, but posts still load like normal.

Going to individual channels gives the following error popup:
TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'metadata_parts')

This happened very suddenly. Initially, the feed would only load older videos, then only videos from a few channels (different channels on each refresh), then it was gone. All in the span of 10 minutes.

Videos still load and play fine if I get a link from elsewhere. The recommended feed on the video player page also still works.

Nightly Build

• I have encountered this bug in the latest official nightly build, do not check this box if you are using an unofficial or custom build.

[Ioxcv12]

Having this exact issue too. Shorts and posts still work for me too. Live and video seem to be broken and when clicking on a channel it shows 0 videos. History also appears to work too.

[cmck28]

I switched to RSS and it mostly worked. A few channels with errors, but most loaded.

[figuld]

Same, and btw the issue wasn't there an hour ago, when I was refreshing subscriptions a previous time, youtube probably broke something.

When going to any channel page, I getting toast error:

TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'metadata_parts')

[Guilded-Aurora]

I've also been receiving this error, RSS fallback doesn't work the way expected either, it's showing videos from a week ago, with many of my channels being errored. I get the same toast error when visiting pages that other users have in this thread
TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'metadata_parts')

[figuld]

Btw, probably irrelevant, but just in case, on launch (if I do it from terminal) the app prints this error (to terminal's stderr) exactly 7 times:

[99047:0521/031352.599886:ERROR:content/browser/site_info.cc:861] Check failed: origin.GetTupleOrPrecursorTupleIfOpaque().IsValid().

[figuld]

When refreshing subscriptions (not RSS mode), this error is spammed a bunch of times in F12 console:

renderer.js:2
[YOUTUBEJS][Text]: Unable to find matching run for attachment run. Skipping...
{attachment_run: {…}, input_data: {…}, parsed_runs: Array(1)}
...

On RSS mode I get a different error spammed:

renderer.js:2
GET https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=... 404 (Not Found)
...

[jungle-boogie]

Also present on v0.24.0-nightly-7337 Beta

[bonadoni95]

Sorry for mentioning other app's name, but I encounter this similar issue on NewPipe where I cannot see any videos from the 'Videos' tab, but I can still see shorts. Perhaps this is a YouTube error?

[torriem]

I've also been receiving this error, RSS fallback doesn't work the way expected either, it's showing videos from a week ago, with many of my channels being errored.

That's not unusual. RSS is usually broken at this time of day anyway. Breaks like clockwork every evening.

[torriem]

Sorry for mentioning other app's name, but I encounter this similar issue on NewPipe where I cannot see any videos from the 'Videos' tab, but I can still see shorts. Perhaps this is a YouTube error?

It's definitely a change on Youtube's end. They regularly try to break FreeTube and any other player. It's a never-ending task for FreeTube developers to fix things when Youtube deliberately throws up another road block. Ad revenue is sacred to them.

[CypherG97]

And I'd imagine they're willing to break their own website to combat threats to the ad revenue. End result is a never ending loop of different groups trying to adapt to each other.