[BUG]: Nothing was scraped.

[im-phantom]

It doesn't scrape anything.
Eg:
ytfzf Linux tips
then it throws the following error:
Scraping YouTube (with ) (Linux tips, pg: 1) [ERROR]: Nothing was scraped

OS = Linux 6.12.7-arch1-1
version = ytfzf: git-2051.a67ba26
Terminal = kitty 0.38.1

[atkirtland]

To fix this, I just had to set the invidious_instance environment variable like: invidious_instance="https://vid.puffyan.us" ytfzf Linux tips

[plum]

I restorted to using that since just before christmas, as follows, from the cmmand line,
to reach the ytfzf search prompt.:
~$ invidious_instance="https://vid.puffyan.us" ytfz

But as from today even that does not work.

The following command produces 'no available instances', as follows:

$ ~$ ytfzf --available-inv-instances

Tue  7 Jan 22:07:01 GMT 2025

What am I to suspect, and what can be done?

[plum]

Update: After placing the environmental variable as follows, in the conf.sh file shortly after posting the above, it works again:

invidious_instance="https://vid.puffyan.us"
It also works on the command line as, shown above.

Yet $ ~$ ytfzf --available-inv-instances still produces no result (i.e available instances)!

What is happening with instances?

[AlleyPally]

It seems as though Youtube is giving Invidious instances a hard time again. :(

[plum]

It seems as though Youtube is giving Invidious instances a hard time again. :(

Ah! Just I imagined.... Is it spanners thrown into the Youtube works, I wondered?

[rabpaulo]

https://github.com/ThatOneCalculator/ytfzfim

orphan fork working just fine somehow

[plum]

@rabpaulo THnaks. I might try that.
We know why ytfzm, as @AlleyPally has informed us, and we see by the invidious problems.

I meanwhile, have found and recommend a particular bash script , which because it does not reply upon ytdl to work. and has some very nice enhancements to the bash menu doveltailing with your own youtube channel and sunbscriotions and lists. It's excellent.
Benexl/yt-x: Browse youtube from your terminal

[tabletseeker]

Updated and working ytfzf project here:
https://github.com/tabletseeker/ytfzf_prime