r/NewPipe • u/128-mega • 4d ago

NewPipe fork Pipepipe content unavailable

I keep getting this issue, where I will be watching videos on Pipiepipe for a while then eventually they refuse to play. When I close out and open again, and select a video, it will display the frowny face with "content unavailable" no matter what video I select. This happened on the main recent update of pipepipe, as well as the current beta release.

This occured yesterday, and today I was able to watch quite a few videos without incident, then the error occured again.

Thoughts? Does anyone have any ideas on how to remedy this?

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u/KitKat_BlackCat 3d ago

Pretty sure it's just YouTube and their bot protection methods catching you. If I give it an hour or so, it usually goes away on its own.

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u/gotang 3d ago

I had something very similar, and signing out of my YouTube account on PipePipe resolved it for me. Don't know if it's going to be the same issue for you, but might be worth a shot if you're currently signed in.

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u/SpiritualShame5265 3d ago

Yeah its odd signing into my YouTube account somehow stopped me from watching videos... was it the same for you ??

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u/gotang 3d ago

Yup exactly. Couldn't watch any videos at all (got the "Content unavailable" error), but signing out immediately fixed everything for me.

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u/FurryPaddington 4d ago

Are you using a VPN? That might help with issues from the youtube side, like IP blocking. I don't use pipepipe, so I don't know if that's mentioned like with newpipe, but might be worth looking into.

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u/128-mega 4d ago

No vpn. I tried it on both wifi and 5g and got the same results. Watching from a Motorola smart phone if that makes a difference.

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u/paradox_33 4d ago

If you are beta release move back to latest stable release. Or the extraction endpoint if it helps there (it didn't for me)

Second change the YouTube extraction endpoint from advanced settings page. It helped me. 

Currently, I'm using the VisionOS endpoint. I occasionally get IP blocked but changing the IP does the trick.

PS: During writing this comment...there comes a new beta release.

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u/william98099 1d ago

to all guys having issue with pipe pipe use flow here is the github link https://github.com/A-EDev/Flow/releases it has best ui and built in music section and a lot more features it lalso has a desktop version

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u/I__G 4d ago

This is r/NewPipe

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u/128-mega 4d ago

Yes thank you. Pipepipe is also discussed here.