YouTube links checking issue

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  • Stian Lund

    (@pathduck)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    YouTube API checking stopped working a while back, and AFAIK there is no fix coming any time soon. Disable the YouTube API check, they will then be checked with the regular methods (HEAD/GET).

    Note that this has the drawback of not being able to detect for instance if a video is private, since it still technically exists and won’t return a 404.

    Thread Starter Sadi87

    (@sadi87)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,
    thank you, I already switch off YouTube API and we will see what happen.. 🙂

    but additional I have the same problem with videos from Vimeo service. 🙁 but Vimeo hasn’t API option to switch off. where to look for a solution?

    Stian Lund

    (@pathduck)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    Turn on logging under Advanced in the plugin settings. Do a recheck of the links and check the log for any errors and other messages which might explain it.

    Thread Starter Sadi87

    (@sadi87)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    Hi Stian Lund,
    I did it and checked errors but I’m confuse and I can not understand this could you check this:

     'UPDATE wp_blc_links SET url = \'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El4LKyzzWnw\', first_failure = \'0000-00-00 00:00:00\', last_check = \'0000-00-00 00:00:00\', last_success = \'0000-00-00 00:00:00\', last_check_attempt = \'2019-09-09 11:06:07\', check_count = 1, final_url = \'\', redirect_count = 0, log = \'\', http_code = 0, request_duration = 0.000000, timeout = 0, result_hash = \'\', broken = 0, warning = 0, false_positive = 0, may_recheck = 1, being_checked = 1, status_text = \'\', status_code = \'\', dismissed = 0 WHERE link_id=6'
[2019-09-09 11:06:07 +00:00] DEBUG: blcLink:save Link updated.
[2019-09-09 11:06:07 +00:00] DEBUG: Starting DB commit.
[2019-09-09 11:06:07 +00:00] DEBUG: Commit executed.
[2019-09-09 11:06:08 +00:00] DEBUG: HTTP module checking "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El4LKyzzWnw"
[2019-09-09 11:06:08 +00:00] INFO: blcCurlHttp Checking link 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El4LKyzzWnw'
[2019-09-09 11:06:08 +00:00] DEBUG: blcCurlHttp Clean URL: 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El4LKyzzWnw'
[2019-09-09 11:06:08 +00:00] DEBUG: HTTP request took 0.191 seconds
[2019-09-09 11:06:08 +00:00] INFO: HTTP response: 200, duration: 0.19 seconds, status text: "N/A"
[2019-09-09 11:06:08 +00:00] DEBUG: blcLink:save Updating a link. SQL query:
 'UPDATE wp_blc_links SET url = \'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El4LKyzzWnw\', first_failure = \'0000-00-00 00:00:00\', last_check = \'2019-09-09 11:06:07\', last_success = \'2019-09-09 11:06:07\', last_check_attempt = \'2019-09-09 11:06:07\', check_count = 0, final_url = \'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El4LKyzzWnw\', redirect_count = 0, log = \'=== HTTP code : 200 ===\\n\\nResponse headers\\n================\\nHTTP/1.1 200 OK\\r\\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\\r\\nX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\\r\\nP3P: CP="This is not a P3P policy! See http://support.google.com/accounts/answer/151657?hl=en for more info."\\r\\nStrict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000\\r\\nExpires: Tue, 27 Apr 1971 19:44:06 EST\\r\\nCache-Control: no-cache\\r\\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\\r\\nDate: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 11:06:07 GMT\\r\\nServer: YouTube Frontend Proxy\\r\\nX-XSS-Protection: 0\\r\\nSet-Cookie: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=8wRYVVdVFws; path=/; domain=.youtube.com; expires=Sat, 07-Mar-2020 11:06:07 GMT; httponly\\r\\nSet-Cookie: GPS=1; path=/; domain=.youtube.com; expires=Mon, 09-Sep-2019 11:36:07 GMT\\r\\nSet-Cookie: PREF=f1=40000000; path=/; domain=.youtube.com; expires=Sat, 09-May-2020 22:59:07 GMT\\r\\nSet-Cookie: YSC=cQyHusj4y6g; path=/; domain=.youtube.com; httponly\\r\\nAlt-Svc: quic=":443"; ma=2592000; v="46,43,39"\\r\\nAccept-Ranges: none\\r\\nVary: Accept-Encoding\\r\\nConnection: close\\r\\n\\r\\nRequest headers\\n================\\nHEAD /watch?v=El4LKyzzWnw HTTP/1.1\\r\\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.102 Safari/537.36\\r\\nHost: www.youtube.com\\r\\nAccept: */*\\r\\nReferer: http://skatevideotest.pl\\r\\nConnection: close\\r\\n\\r\\n\\nLink is valid.\', http_code = 200, request_duration = 0.190931, timeout = 0, result_hash = \'200|0|0|https://www.youtube.com/watch\', broken = 0, warning = 0, false_positive = 0, may_recheck = 1, being_checked = 0, status_text = \'\', status_code = \'\', dismissed = 0 WHERE link_id=6'
[2019-09-09 11:06:08 +00:00] DEBUG: blcLink:save Link updated.
[2019-09-09 11:06:08 +00:00] DEBUG: Starting DB commit.
[2019-09-09 11:06:08 +00:00] DEBUG: Commit executed.
[2019-09-09 11:06:08 +00:00] DEBUG: Starting DB commit.
[2019-09-09 11:06:08 +00:00] DEBUG: Commit executed.
[2019-09-09 11:06:08 +00:00] INFO: work(): All done.

    so URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El4LKyzzWnw is definitely broken but test passed?

    Stian Lund

    (@pathduck)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    Hey – like I said, turning off YouTube API checking will not mark private videos as broken so test will pass. YouTube returns a http 200 for private videos because they exist.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes#2xx_Success

    I thought you said Vimeo videos was the problem?

    Thread Starter Sadi87

    (@sadi87)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,
    I did some tests for ex.:

    I uploaded on my youtube profile one footage and then copy and paste link into post.

    I tested with public and private visibility and after that I deleted video from youtube service and recheck all pages and posts.

    NO broken links found. 🙁 I’m confused..

    PS. I can allow to access to my WP test site to check this if you want to see it yourself.

    Michael.

    Thread Starter Sadi87

    (@sadi87)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    “I thought you said Vimeo videos was the problem?” – there problem is in YouTube and Vimeo too. :/

    Michael.

    Stian Lund

    (@pathduck)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    You can post a link to the log here and I can have a look.

    The URL for the log would be something like:
    <site URL>/wp-content/uploads/broken-link-checker/blc-log.txt

    If you give access to the site it might help too.

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by Stian Lund.
    Thread Starter Sadi87

    (@sadi87)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,
    how can I sent it to you in safety way? any email or something?

    best regards
    Michael

    Stian Lund

    (@pathduck)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    You can email me stianlund at Gmail.

    Thread Starter Sadi87

    (@sadi87)

    6 years, 7 months ago

    I have already sent you a message.

    best regards,
    Michael

    cultoftheshadow

    (@cultoftheshadow)

    6 years, 7 months ago

    I have the exact same issue on 4 different sites that I am using this plugin. Broken YT videos pass the check.
    Did you came up with a fix? Please let us know.

    Stian Lund

    (@pathduck)

    6 years, 7 months ago

    @cultoftheshadow There is no quick fix I’m afraid, and probably not coming. Apart from maybe getting your own key from Google APIs as outlined here:
    https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/getting-started
    https://github.com/ManageWP/broken-link-checker/issues/56

    You can disable the YouTube API in settings, I assume this is what you’ve done? BLC will then check YT links the same way as regular links, with the drawback that for instance private/hidden videos will still show as OK. This is just how YT works.

    cultoftheshadow

    (@cultoftheshadow)

    6 years, 7 months ago

    @pathduck just saw your comment…. yes I have disable the YouTube API in settings and embedded YT video pass the check. I will try to see what can be done with Google API

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