Can’t open/parse the “new” Explore sections

[hollownights]

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Affected version

0.28.0

Steps to reproduce the bug

Try to open any of these in NewPipe (I had UK for my location and EN-UK for my language on YouTube in a desktop browser) :

Music: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-9-kyTW8ZkZNDHQJ6FgpwQ
Films: https://www.youtube.com/feed/storefront
Live: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4R8DWoMoI7CAwX8_LjQHig
Gaming: https://www.youtube.com/gaming
News: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYfdidRxbB8Qhf0Nx7ioOYw
Sport: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEgdi0XIXXZ-qJOFPf4JSKw
Courses: https://www.youtube.com/feed/courses_destination
Fashion and beauty: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrpQ4p1Ql_hG8rKXIKM1MOQ
Podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/podcasts

Expected behavior

To have the videos on those pages listed in NewPipe.

Actual behavior

If you copy and paste in NewPipe any of the links for any of YouTube’s Explore sections, none of them are properly parsed by NewPipe, and all lack their contents.

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Affected Android/Custom ROM version

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Affected device model

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[absurdlylongusername]

Are you able to provide screenshot or a recording please?

[hollownights]

@absurdlylongusername Hi! The responses are quite different between those pages, reason why I left it for personal testing, but I'm gonna leave some screenshots below. NewPipe can't even interpret the URL for Films and Courses and treat them as search terms. Also, this time I got an error 404 for Gaming and Podcasts in NewPipe.

Music:

News:

Films:

Gaming and Podcasts...

... with error (same error for both):

Exception

• User Action: requested channel
• Request: https://www.youtube.com/gaming
• Content Country: GB
• Content Language: en-GB
• App Language: en_US
• Service: YouTube
• Timestamp: 2026-01-22T19:32:12.381-03:00
• Package: org.schabi.newpipe
• Service: YouTube
• Version: 0.28.0
• OS: [Too specific in Samsung's devices]

Crash log

org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.exceptions.ContentNotAvailableException: Not found ("404 ")
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.YoutubeParsingHelper.getValidJsonResponseBody(YoutubeParsingHelper.java:993)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.YoutubeParsingHelper.getJsonPostResponse(YoutubeParsingHelper.java:1026)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.YoutubeChannelHelper.resolveChannelId(YoutubeChannelHelper.java:90)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.extractors.YoutubeChannelExtractor.onFetchPage(YoutubeChannelExtractor.java:102)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.Extractor.fetchPage(Extractor.java:60)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.channel.ChannelInfo.getInfo(ChannelInfo.java:52)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.util.ExtractorHelper.lambda$getChannelInfo$4(ExtractorHelper.java:126)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.util.ExtractorHelper.$r8$lambda$bfeU0LHJSxzIBHEG4SMNZnFnlaE(ExtractorHelper.java:0)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.util.ExtractorHelper$$ExternalSyntheticLambda7.call(R8$$SyntheticClass:0)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleFromCallable.subscribeActual(SingleFromCallable.java:43)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Single.subscribe(Single.java:4855)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleDoOnSuccess.subscribeActual(SingleDoOnSuccess.java:35)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Single.subscribe(Single.java:4855)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeFromSingle.subscribeActual(MaybeFromSingle.java:41)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Maybe.subscribe(Maybe.java:5377)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray$ConcatMaybeObserver.drain(MaybeConcatArray.java:153)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray$ConcatMaybeObserver.request(MaybeConcatArray.java:78)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.flowable.FlowableElementAtMaybe$ElementAtSubscriber.onSubscribe(FlowableElementAtMaybe.java:66)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray.subscribeActual(MaybeConcatArray.java:42)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Flowable.subscribe(Flowable.java:16144)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.flowable.FlowableElementAtMaybe.subscribeActual(FlowableElementAtMaybe.java:36)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Maybe.subscribe(Maybe.java:5377)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeToSingle.subscribeActual(MaybeToSingle.java:46)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Single.subscribe(Single.java:4855)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleSubscribeOn$SubscribeOnObserver.run(SingleSubscribeOn.java:89)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Scheduler$DisposeTask.run(Scheduler.java:644)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.schedulers.ScheduledRunnable.run(ScheduledRunnable.java:65)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.schedulers.ScheduledRunnable.call(ScheduledRunnable.java:56)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:317)
	at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:348)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1156)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:651)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1119)

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[hollownights]

Noticed the other day that NewPipe also can't parse the more "conventional" URL for the Films section: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2j1EieS9Wm9fMzls6owXPA

Also, there is a curious behavior for the movies video pages: both in a mobile browser and in NewPipe, they are detected, right off the bat, as if they were the paid content/full movie and can't be played, but if you visit the same page with a "desktop" browser, what is show by default is the movie trailer, which can be played in the browser and you don't even have to login. Two examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddul77vK9mc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4z4xZtusFg