iawia002/lux · error

Could not extract media name from page

Error message

Could not extract media name from page

What it means

Companion check on the same embed HTML: the extractor greps for video_name = "..." to title the stream. Thrown when that assignment is missing, usually for the same reasons the media URL fails (challenge page or template change). Note the regex's ["|'] character class also matches a literal pipe, which is a latent bug for titles containing |.

Source

Thrown at extractors/bitchute/bitchute.go:73

	b, err := io.ReadAll(reader)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, errors.WithStack(err)
	}

	// There is also an API that provides meta data
	// POST https://api.bitchute.com/api/beta9/video {"video_id": <video_id>}
	html := string(b)
	regMediaURL := regexp.MustCompile(`media_url\s*=\s*['|"](https:\/\/[^.]+\.bitchute\.com\/.*\.mp4)`)
	matchMediaURL := regMediaURL.FindStringSubmatch(html)
	if len(matchMediaURL) < 2 {
		return nil, errors.New("Could not extract media URL from page")
	}
	mediaURL := matchMediaURL[1]

	regVideoName := regexp.MustCompile(`(?m)video_name\s*=\s*["|']\\?"?(.*)["|'];?$`)
	matchVideoName := regVideoName.FindStringSubmatch(html)
	if len(matchVideoName) < 2 {
		return nil, errors.New("Could not extract media name from page")
	}
	videoName := strings.ReplaceAll(matchVideoName[1], `\"`, "")

	streams := make(map[string]*extractors.Stream, 1)
	size, err := request.Size(mediaURL, u)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, errors.WithStack(err)
	}
	streams["Default"] = &extractors.Stream{
		Parts: []*extractors.Part{
			{
				URL:  mediaURL,
				Size: size,
				Ext:  "mp4",
			},
		},
		Size:    size,
		Quality: "Default",

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Solutions

1. Triage exactly as for 'Could not extract media URL from page': verify the embed page in a browser and retry with a clean session.
2. Fetch the title from the beta9 video API (POST https://api.bitchute.com/api/beta9/video) instead of the embed HTML.
3. Tighten the regex — replace the buggy ["|'] class with ('|') style alternation and re-test.

Example fix

// before
regVideoName := regexp.MustCompile(`(?m)video_name\s*=\s*["|']\\?"?(.*)["|'];$`)
// after — explicit quote alternation, no literal pipe
regVideoName := regexp.MustCompile(`(?m)video_name\s*=\s*('([^']*)'|"([^"]*)")`)

func isMediaNameMissing(err error) bool {
	return err != nil && strings.Contains(err.Error(), "Could not extract media name")
}

Catch and substitute a default title (the name is only used for the output file name) — e.g. fall back to the video id — then continue. Re-raise any other error.

When it happens

Trigger: An anti-bot page that still exposes media_url but not video_name; a template migration renaming the variable; titles whose quoting does not fit the ["|'] class or the optional backslash-quote prefix.

Common situations: Same contexts as the media-URL failure; videos with unusual titles; long-running scrapers after a BitChute update.

Related errors

• Could not extract media URL from page
• this page has no playlist
• could not find video in page
• Invalid video URL: Missing video ID parameter
• ErrURLParseFailed

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