soimort/you-get · error · Exception

Weibo api returns non-success: (%s)%s

Error message

Weibo api returns non-success: (%s)%s

What it means

The Miaopai extractor resolves videos through Weibo's h5 API (POST to https://h5.video.weibo.com with Component_Play_Playinfo {oid}) and expects data['msg'] == 'succ'. Any other msg/code — invalid oid, deleted video, anti-crawler refusal — raises Exception('Weibo api returns non-success: ...'). Note the message is built with '.format' on a '%s' template, so the code/msg values never appear; the literal text '(%s)%s' is what you see.

Source

Thrown at src/you_get/extractors/miaopai.py:102

        oid = match1(url, r'\?fid=(\d{4}:\w+)')
    page = "/show/%s" % oid
    data_url = 'https://h5.video.weibo.com/api/component?%s' % parse.urlencode({
        'page': page
    })
    headers = {}
    headers.update(fake_headers_mobile)
    headers['origin'] = 'https://h5.video.weibo.com'
    headers['page-referer'] = page
    headers['referer'] = 'https://h5.video.weibo.com/show/%s' % oid
    post_data = {
        "data": json.dumps({
            "Component_Play_Playinfo": {"oid": oid}
        })
    }
    data_content = post_content(data_url, headers=headers, post_data=post_data)
    data = json.loads(data_content)
    if data['msg'] != 'succ':
        raise Exception('Weibo api returns non-success: (%s)%s'.format(data['code'], data['msg']))

    play_info = data['data']['Component_Play_Playinfo']
    title = play_info['title']

    # get video formats and sort by size desc
    video_formats = []
    for fmt, relative_uri in play_info['urls'].items():
        url = "https:%s" % relative_uri
        type, ext, size = url_info(url, headers=headers)
        video_formats.append({
            'fmt': fmt,
            'url': url,
            'type': type,
            'ext': ext,
            'size': size,
        })
    video_formats.sort(key=lambda v:v['size'], reverse=True)
    selected_video = video_formats[0]

View on GitHub (pinned to 049548f3f3)

Solutions

1. Open the miaopai page in a browser to confirm the video still exists
2. Retry once — transient anti-bot refusals often pass on a fresh request
3. Fix the message formatting bug so the real code/msg show: use 'Weibo api returns non-success: ({}){}'.format(data['code'], data['msg']) at src/you_get/extractors/miaopai.py:102
4. If the API requires cookies, extend headers/post_data to include a valid session

Example fix

# before (values never interpolate)
raise Exception('Weibo api returns non-success: (%s)%s'.format(data['code'], data['msg']))

# after
raise Exception('Weibo api returns non-success: ({}){}'.format(data['code'], data['msg']))

def weibo_playinfo_ok(data):
    return isinstance(data, dict) and data.get('msg') == 'succ'

try:
    miaopai_download(url, ...)
except Exception as e:
    msg = str(e)
    if 'Weibo api returns non-success' in msg:
        print('video deleted or anti-bot refusal; verify in browser')
    else:
        raise

When it happens

Trigger: miaopai_download_by_fid invoked with an oid the Weibo API rejects (deleted/expired video, wrong fid prefix), or the API returning a captcha/verification response because the request lacks expected cookies/headers.

Common situations: Old miaopai links whose backing Weibo video was removed; heavy automated use tripping anti-bot; API response shape change making data['msg'] absent (that case raises KeyError instead); fid extracted with an incompatible prefix.

Related errors

• Unknown pattern

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