Your task is pending...

Hello.

The "Your task is pending..." message remains displayed and the conversion does not works. ComputerHotline (talk) 16:59, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

Yep, the same for me.. // Kakan spelar (talk) 18:50, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

@ComputerHotline and Kakan spelar: What did you task it with uploading? For each video: what is the URL of that video, and what info did you try to add?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 18:53, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

@Jeff G.: I tried to upload https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=692fNrkhZzU, with {{PD-USGov-Military-Air National Guard}} + {{YouTube CC-BY}} licenses, but it didn't work. // Kakan spelar (talk) 19:50, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

I've tried to upload this video made by me : . ComputerHotline (talk) 18:02, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

There has been a huge incident yesterday on WMCS related to NFS, I fear it broke video2commons as all the encoding video instances are listed in the upcoming maintenance next Monday. @Andrewbogott do you confirm? I'm reluctant to do anything that might complicate your task further. vip (talk) 21:52, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

So will it be restored to normal next week? I faced the same as you. Ahri Boy (talk) 14:42, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

Same problem. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs), 04:26, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. vip (talk) 17:41, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

Fixed. vip (talk) 17:41, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

Quick note there are 114 pending tasks , please be patient until the tool picks up the backlog (it might take a few days). vip (talk) 17:42, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

Error

Error: An exception occurred: DownloadError: b'ERROR: [youtube] fRo8KXlqer4: Sign in to confirm you\xe2\x80\x99re not a bot. This helps protect our community. Learn more'

Of course, I'm logged on, so I don't understand what's going on here. TaronjaSatsuma (talk) 10:46, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

@TaronjaSatsuma: It appears that the video in question is restricted by youtube to the point that the tool is not allowed to retrieve it. What is the URL of that video, and what info did you try to add?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 10:29, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

Last youtube upload appears to be File:Webinário Mais Povos 2022.webm.

06:01, 7 January 2025 Ana Vitória Farion (Projeto Mais+) talk contribs 1,101 bytes +1,101 Imported media from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-rgH8hp2CI

v2c rate limited by youtube again? RoyZuo (talk) 11:26, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

I'm not sure if it's a rate limit, as I've queried over and over again for several days and I never get in. I think maybe certain channels will not allow it, as Jeff G. suggested above. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:02, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

You are logged in here (i.e. logged in to the video2commons tool via OAuth with your WMF credentials), but the bot that then queries YouTube is not itself logged in at YouTube. This is what is causing the problem. I have experienced the same problem many times for many days now, unfortunately. I have been able to get around it the very few times in the past that it's happened by just trying again later, but it's not working repeatedly now when I'm trying to port over any video from the White House's YouTube account, even tho I was able to do it several days ago. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:01, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

Does v2c need manual update when yt-dlp gets updated?

this youtube login problem seems to be resolved by the latest ytdlp version. i dont know which version of ytdlp v2c is using. RoyZuo (talk) 17:57, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

Is there a solution for it? TaronjaSatsuma (talk) 19:32, 8 February 2025 (UTC)

Strangely, in feb so far, apparently, 5 videos from youtube could be uploaded. like v2c could work for youtube very limitedly? RoyZuo (talk) 13:41, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

Tracked in GitHub
toolforge/video2commons/issues/237

So V2C currently is broken due to some YouTube changes and can't be used? I think this could maybe be solved by appending sth like this to the yt-dlp command --cookies-from-browser firefox and having a YT account for video2commons with the cookie on that server. Created the issue. Prototyperspective (talk) 13:44, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

New day, new error

when trying to upload using the now updated V2C, it gives me a different error than before (at least it doesn't belive I'm a bot):

Error: An exception occurred: DownloadError: b'ERROR: [youtube] KWFyg_I2AXY: Requested format is not available. Use --list-formats for a list of available formats'

the video requested was this one from YouTube. Juwan (talk) 20:22, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

pinging @Don-vip and @RoyZuo who helped in the thread above. Juwan (talk) 20:33, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

This one was easy, just a matter of upgrading yt-dlp from 2025.3.21 to 2025.3.27. Probably fixed by https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/12761.

Resolved

vip (talk) 21:02, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Prototyperspective (talk) 21:48, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

Could not store upload in the stash (UploadStashFileException)

An exception occurred: TaskError: b'b\'pywikibot.Error: APIError: stashfailed: Could not store upload in the stash (UploadStashFileException): "An unknown error occurred in storage backend "local-swift-eqiad".".\\n[servedby: mw-api-ext.codfw.main-5cb9dc4cfb-nr95p;\\n help: See https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php for API usage. Subscribe to the mediawiki-api-announce mailing list at <https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/mediawiki-api-announce.lists.wikimedia.org/> for notice of API deprecations and breaking changes.]\

I was uploading a 226 MB video (mp4), but it failed with this error. Joofjoof (talk) 00:26, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

@Joofjoof Have you tried it again? It is an error that happens from time to time unrelated to the upload system. Raymond (talk) 06:20, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

• I first tried restarting the job, but it failed with an Oauth error.
• I have just submitted a new job for this video, and it is currently running with the status "Your task is being rescheduled...". Joofjoof (talk) 23:32, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

  Ok, it has uploaded successfully: File:Iclr14-invited-talk-rich-sutton-myths-of-representation-learning.webm Joofjoof (talk) 04:44, 13 March 2025 (UTC)

  Perfect. Raymond (talk) 06:22, 13 March 2025 (UTC)

This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Prototyperspective (talk) 21:49, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

Failling for flickr

i just tried a flickr video. gave me

An exception occurred: DownloadError: b'ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests'

v2c seems to be working for other websites though. RoyZuo (talk) 13:39, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

it's the same error if i use the direct flickr video url e.g. https://live.staticflickr.com/video/48044468858/336f21bb49/1080p.mp4 .

toolforge server blocked by flickr? RoyZuo (talk) 18:47, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

@RoyZuo: For that URL, I get '"code": 403,' and '"message": "Invalid signature"'. See also Commons talk:Flickr2Commons#Empty files.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 08:56, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Terms of service of source sites?

Does video2commons respect the terms of service of YouTube and other source sites it downloads from? YouTube's terms of use quite clearly forbid automated downloads without written permission from YouTube... This is a hard blocker for ever fully integrating video2commons under Wikimedia's operations. --Brooke Vibber (WMF) (talk) 17:37, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

@Brooke Vibber (WMF) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T236446 I dont know what happend to those talks years ago. RoyZuo (talk) 18:26, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Thanks... having read that: looks like no, we don't have an exception arranged with YouTube. We can fully expect frequent rate-limiting or blocking of any Wikimedia Toolforge or other IPs doing forbidden-by-YouTube downloads and it's unlikely we will ever be able to integrate this as a Wikimedia-run tool. --Brooke Vibber (WMF) (talk) 19:31, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Video2Commons is not an automated download tool. It downloads the video the user tasks it to. Prototyperspective (talk) 20:27, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

The tasks are submitted manually by the users, some of whom are loathe to shell out US$13.99⁠/⁠month for YouTube Premium, plus all the necessary hardware expenditures and learning for conversion to a free format. I wonder if YouTube is paying the MP4 patentholders for use of their patented codec technologies.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 22:39, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Help:Server-side upload

Hi, For some unknown reason, for some large files, V2C requests a Server-side upload (SSU). However I have been told that this service is deprecated. Last October 2024, I processed several films and requested a SSU. Now the files are not available anymore, so all this work is lost. :((( Yann (talk) 09:13, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

@Yann: Mine that worked for RoyZuo was phab:T357403 for uploading https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpnOJaZlPaI to File:City Driving 4K- Kraków Poland 2024.webm, but no one has yet reviewed the license visible here.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 09:49, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

OK, I got the explanation here. So in short, V2C requests a SSU when it gets a 'backend-fail-internal' error. So SSU requests are not directly linked to the file size, as I thought. And indeed, some of the videos which were sent to SSU can be uploaded now (e.g. File:Life with Father (1947) by Michael Curtiz.webm, 2.21 GB). Yann (talk) 19:09, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

rereading: dead link https://yt-dl.org/...

In section of error list: "An exception occurred: DownloadError: ERROR: KTvdqve_naM: "token" parameter not in video info for unknown reason; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://yt-dl.org/update on.."

both links -> https://yt-dl.org/bug no longer exist (error 404). Please realign. -- Christian 🇫🇷 FR (talk) 10:14, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

Failed OAuth authentication for Commons

Hi, I got this error: An exception occurred: UnpickleableExceptionWrapper: b"TaskError(b'pywikibot.Error: NoUsernameError: Failed OAuth authentication for commons:commons: The authorization headers in your request are not valid: No approved grant was found for that authorization token.')" Yann (talk) 19:13, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

Today I've tried uploading a video and I'm receiving the same error. --NoonIcarus (talk) 01:39, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

@Yann@NoonIcarus I'm not sure what causes this problem. Have you tried logging out and then in again, then retrying your upload? RoyZuo (talk) 07:55, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

I personally retried the upload and it worked on the fourth try. I'll let know if it happens again. Thank you very much. --NoonIcarus (talk) 15:17, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

Discussion on adding some functionality to the Upload Wizard

We are looking at funding this as per Commons_talk:Upload_Wizard#Merging_in_some_aspects_of_Commons:Video2commons. Welcome to feedback. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 02:12, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

@Doc James thank you! As the current v2c maintainer I totally support this move :) vip (talk) 20:23, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

@Doc James: That would be great!   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 23:36, 27 April 2025 (UTC)