Requested Format Is Not Available Error

[Dogecoin472]

Hi, I am running the latest version of yt-dlp and gytmdl, I keep getting this error no matter what format I select to download. Thanks!

gytmdl --output-path D:\Goog https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nmi9XAt_Inl1yeyooZE_0SNvISaDf8e38
[INFO 14:21:09] Starting Gytmdl
[INFO 14:21:09] (URL 1/1) Checking "https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nmi9XAt_Inl1yeyooZE_0SNvISaDf8e38"
[INFO 14:21:10] (Track 1/24 from URL 1/1) Downloading "Eslabon Intro"
ERROR: [youtube] u3EIHrhHZmc: Requested format is not available. Use --list-formats for a list of available formats
[ERROR 14:21:15] (Track 1/24 from URL 1/1) Failed to download "Eslabon Intro"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users[Name]\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.13_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python313\site-packages\yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 1668, in wrapper
return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users[Name]\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.13_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python313\site-packages\yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 1824, in __extract_info
return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users[Name]\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.13_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python313\site-packages\yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 1883, in process_ie_result
ie_result = self.process_video_result(ie_result, download=download)
File "C:\Users[Name]\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.13_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python313\site-packages\yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 3027, in process_video_result
raise ExtractorError(
'Requested format is not available. Use --list-formats for a list of available formats',
expected=True, video_id=info_dict['id'], ie=info_dict['extractor'])
yt_dlp.utils.ExtractorError: [youtube] u3EIHrhHZmc: Requested format is not available. Use --list-formats for a list of available formats

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users[Name]\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.13_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python313\site-packages\gytmdl\cli.py", line 352, in main
downloader.download(video_id, track_temp_path)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users[[Name]]\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.13_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python313\site-packages\gytmdl\downloader.py", line 335, in download
ydl.download("https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=" + video_id)
~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users[[Name]]\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.13_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python313\site-packages\yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 3660, in download
self.__download_wrapper(self.extract_info)(
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
url, force_generic_extractor=self.params.get('force_generic_extractor', False))
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users[[Name]]\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.13_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python313\site-packages\yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 3633, in wrapper
res = func(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users[[Name]]\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.13_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python313\site-packages\yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 1657, in extract_info
return self.__extract_info(url, self.get_info_extractor(key), download, extra_info, process)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users[[Name]]\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.13_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python313\site-packages\yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 1686, in wrapper
self.report_error(str(e), e.format_traceback())
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users[[Name]]\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.13_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python313\site-packages\yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 1126, in report_error
self.trouble(f'{self._format_err("ERROR:", self.Styles.ERROR)} {message}', *args, **kwargs)
~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users[[Name]]\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.13_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python313\site-packages\yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 1065, in trouble
raise DownloadError(message, exc_info)
yt_dlp.utils.DownloadError: ERROR: [youtube] u3EIHrhHZmc: Requested format is not available. Use --list-formats for a list of available formats

[jayjoshi64]

+1 I keep running into this issue. Is there any resolution / workaround?

[Manni1000]

i also have the issue

[n0va-bot]

Please...

[vixalien]

Yeah, I keep running into this as well, even when I use aria2c

[EdoardoBertora]

For anyone still experiencing this issue i was able to make it work by passing a JS runtime parameter. yt_dlp now requires it to be able to get a list of available formats.

downloader.py

def download(self, video_id: str, temp_path: Path):
    with YoutubeDL(
        {
            **self.ytdlp_options,
            "fixup": "never",
            "format": self.itag,
            "outtmpl": str(temp_path),
            "js_runtimes": {'deno': {'path': '/path/to/deno'}},
            "remote_components": "ejs:npm"
        }
    ) as ydl:
        ydl.download([f"https://music.youtube.com/watch?v={video_id}"])

Also note that i changed the url parameter of ydl.download, since passing a single url is a mistake according to the official documentation.

This worked for my use case, if you need to run tests for your case my suggestion is to try the yt_dlp commands such as

yt-dlp --js-runtimes deno -F --remote-components ejs:npm [VIDEO_ID]

to display more accurate error messages about your runtime or formats available.