Additional parameters in URL passed from browser cause "Content Unavailable"

[PippinAlexanderov]

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Affected version

0.28.0

Steps to reproduce the bug

Use case: I often watch Youtube videos on my desktop computer. Sometimes I want to keep watching the video on my mobile device (using NewPipe), so I send the URL to the mobile device. The URL often looks like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYVIDEO&list=BLAH

(On my mobile device, the URL is first opened by my browser which subsequently redirects to NewPipe.) NewPipe responds with "Content Unavailable".

It appears that NewPipe does not like the "&list=BLAH" component. (Were I to pass "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYVIDEO" then NewPipe is perfectly happy and starts playing without fuss.)

What I expect to occur is for NewPipe to /ignore/ any additional parameters in the URL, and start playing that particular video.

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[TheOnlyJoey]

Seems like duplicate of #11139

[TobiGr]

Are those lists some kind of private playlists? The idea is usually to find the playlist and then open select the given video in it. If the playlist is not available to the general public, e.g. if it is just a local playlist, the user should be given the option to just open the video.

[PippinAlexanderov]

The "&list=..." parameter is added when the user clicks "Add to queue" on a video on a Youtube page. (We are talking about Youtube here, on a desktop computer, in the browser.) So I suppose that could be called a "private playlist". I haven't tried it with a publicly available playlist.

I do not expect that my list of "videos to watch next" gets migrated (when I move from the desktop to Newpipe on mobile), but I would hope for a more graceful failover than a cryptic "Content Unavailable". :-)

[PippinAlexanderov]

Per TheOnlyJoey on Nov 18 2025:

Seems like duplicate of #11139

I don't believe this to be the case.

Same error message, different causes.

[TobiGr]

Are you loggin in while using "add to queue"? How do you share the URL?

Please provide an uncensored URL for testing. I cannot replicate the URL you received and therefore cannot investigate the differences in the playlist URLs which might indicate that it is a local playlist and therefore cannot be accessed.

[xznhj8129]

This is making my entire newpipe playlist unreadable

[absurdlylongusername]

@PippinAlexanderov Pinging again for you to provide more info otherwise we can't help

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