ytdl-org/youtube-dl · error · ExtractorError

Login failed (invalid username/password)

Error message

Login failed (invalid username/password)

What it means

Raised by TubiTvIE after a form login when the returned page lacks the id="tubi-logout" marker that indicates an authenticated page: the credentials were rejected. Expected=True, so it is reported as an authentication failure. The login POST goes to tubitv.com with urlencoded username/password.

Source

Thrown at youtube_dl/extractor/tubitv.py:66

        },
    }]

    def _login(self):
        username, password = self._get_login_info()
        if username is None:
            return
        self.report_login()
        form_data = {
            'username': username,
            'password': password,
        }
        payload = urlencode_postdata(form_data)
        request = sanitized_Request(self._LOGIN_URL, payload)
        request.add_header('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded')
        login_page = self._download_webpage(
            request, None, False, 'Wrong login info')
        if not re.search(r'id="tubi-logout"', login_page):
            raise ExtractorError(
                'Login failed (invalid username/password)', expected=True)

    def _real_initialize(self):
        self._login()

    def _real_extract(self, url):
        video_id = self._match_id(url)
        video_data = self._download_json(
            'http://tubitv.com/oz/videos/%s/content' % video_id, video_id)
        title = video_data['title']

        formats = self._extract_m3u8_formats(
            self._proto_relative_url(video_data['url']),
            video_id, 'mp4', 'm3u8_native')
        self._sort_formats(formats)

        thumbnails = []
        for thumbnail_url in video_data.get('thumbnails', []):

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Solutions

1. Verify credentials by logging in at tubitv.com in a browser
2. Switch to cookie auth: log in via browser, then use --cookies-from-browser or --cookies with yt-dlp
3. Update to yt-dlp, whose TubiTvIE no longer scrapes the old login form
4. If outside a Tubi market, use a supported-region exit IP

Example fix

# before: form-based login that no longer works
yt-dl --username USER --password PASS 'https://tubitv.com/...'
# after: reuse browser session cookies
yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser chrome 'https://tubitv.com/...'

try:
    ydl.download([url])
except ExtractorError as e:
    if e.expected and 'Login failed' in str(e):
        run(['yt-dlp', '--cookies-from-browser', 'chrome', url])  # cookie fallback

When it happens

Trigger: Passing --username/--password where tubitv.com returns 200 with a login page (no logout element): wrong password, wrong account region, or Tubi's login flow changed (moved to an API/OAuth) so form POST no longer authenticates.

Common situations: Stale youtube-dl versions whose Tubi login scraping broke after site redesigns; typos; accounts requiring re-verification. Tubi is also region-locked (US and a few markets), compounding auth issues from other regions.

Related errors

• Unable to login: %s
• error (parsed JSON 'Message' from 401 response)
• error_msg (xpath_text(auth, 'error/msg'))
• Unable to log in
• Bigo says: %s (code %s)

AI-assisted analysis of ytdl-org/youtube-dl@956b8c5855 (2026-08-14). Data as JSON: /api/errors/146673955448fc98. Report an issue: GitHub.