modified: app.py

app.py

@@ -381,20 +381,23 @@ YTDL_OPTS = {
     'skip_download': True,
 }
 
-def get_ytdl_opts() -> Dict:
+def get_ytdl_opts(client_hint: Optional[str] = None) -> Dict:
-    """Build yt-dlp options dynamically, injecting cookies and headers if configured."""
+    """Build yt-dlp options dynamically, injecting cookies and headers if configured.
+    client_hint: preferred YouTube client (e.g., 'android', 'web', 'ios', 'tv').
+    """
     opts = dict(YTDL_OPTS)
     # UA and extractor tweaks
     ua = os.getenv('YTDL_UA') or (
         'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 '
         '(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0 Safari/537.36'
     )
-    yt_client = os.getenv('YTDL_YT_CLIENT', 'android')
+    yt_client_env = os.getenv('YTDL_YT_CLIENT', 'android')
+    yt_client = client_hint or yt_client_env
     opts['http_headers'] = {'User-Agent': ua}
     # Extractor args can help avoid some player config checks
     opts.setdefault('extractor_args', {})
     opts['extractor_args'].setdefault('youtube', {})
-    # player_client hint (e.g., android)
+    # player_client hint
     opts['extractor_args']['youtube']['player_client'] = [yt_client]
     # Use cookies if available
     if YTDL_COOKIEFILE:
@@ -446,24 +449,45 @@ async def _ensure_connected(ctx: commands.Context) -> Optional[discord.VoiceClie
 async def _ytdlp_extract(loop: asyncio.AbstractEventLoop, query: str) -> Optional[Dict]:
     if not ytdlp:
         return None
-    def _extract():
+
-        with ytdlp.YoutubeDL(get_ytdl_opts()) as ytdl:
+    # Try multiple YouTube client profiles to bypass some restrictions
-            return ytdl.extract_info(query, download=False)
+    env_client = os.getenv('YTDL_YT_CLIENT', 'android')
-    try:
+    fallback_clients = ['web', 'android', 'ios', 'tv']
-        info = await loop.run_in_executor(executor, _extract)
+    clients_to_try: List[str] = []
-        if info is None:
+    for c in [env_client] + fallback_clients:
-            return None
+        if c not in clients_to_try:
-        if 'entries' in info:
+            clients_to_try.append(c)
-            info = info['entries'][0]
+
-        return info
+    last_error: Optional[Exception] = None
-    except Exception as e:
+    for client in clients_to_try:
-        # Make YouTube cookie issues clearer in logs
+        def _extract_with_client():
-        msg = str(e)
+            with ytdlp.YoutubeDL(get_ytdl_opts(client)) as ytdl:
-        if 'Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot' in msg or 'Use --cookies' in msg or 'pass cookies' in msg:
+                return ytdl.extract_info(query, download=False)
+        try:
+            info = await loop.run_in_executor(executor, _extract_with_client)
+            if info is None:
+                continue
+            if 'entries' in info:
+                info = info['entries'][0]
+            return info
+        except Exception as e:
+            last_error = e
+            msg = str(e)
+            print(f"⚠️ yt-dlp attempt failed with client='{client}': {msg[:200]}")
+            # If it's clearly a bot-check/cookies issue, try next client
+            if ('Sign in to confirm' in msg) or ('Use --cookies' in msg) or ('pass cookies' in msg) or ('HTTP Error 403' in msg):
+                continue
+            # Otherwise, break early for other errors
+            break
+
+    # All attempts failed
+    if last_error:
+        msg = str(last_error)
+        if 'Sign in to confirm' in msg or 'Use --cookies' in msg or 'pass cookies' in msg:
             print("❌ yt-dlp error: YouTube requires cookies to proceed.")
             print("   Provide YTDL_COOKIES_FILE or YTDL_COOKIES_B64 (Netscape cookies.txt).")
         traceback.print_exc()
-        return None
+    return None
 
 async def _create_audio_source(loop: asyncio.AbstractEventLoop, search: str, volume: float):
     # Accept either URL or search text; prepend ytsearch1: if not a URL
@@ -559,7 +583,7 @@ async def play(ctx: commands.Context, *, query: str):
     item = await _create_audio_source(loop, query, state['volume'])
     if not item:
         # Give a hint if cookies likely required
-        hint = "If this is YouTube, the server IP may be challenged. Provide YTDL_COOKIES_FILE or YTDL_COOKIES_B64."
+        hint = "If this is YouTube, try setting YTDL_YT_CLIENT=web and/or provide cookies via YTDL_COOKIES_FILE or YTDL_COOKIES_B64."
         await ctx.reply(f"❌ Couldn't get audio from that query.\n{hint}")
         return
     state['queue'].append(item)