[YouTube] Could not parse website (could not get item duration)

[Stypox]

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Description

We received this bug report via email, and furthermore I think I have seen some Snackbars recently in the VideoDetailsFragment. This still seems to happen only very rarely so I guess it is a new A/B test. They probably moved the duration field to another accessibility element in the JSON structure.

Affected version

0.28.3

Logs

• User Action: requested stream
• Request: Some info not extracted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4qBPPYwfBc
• Content Country: PH
• Content Language: en-PH
• App Language: en_PH
• Service: YouTube
• Timestamp: 2026-02-22T11:20:14.584+08:00
• Package: org.schabi.newpipe
• Service: YouTube
• Version: 0.28.3
• OS: Linux 14 - 34

Exceptions (20) - Crash log 1

org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.exceptions.ParsingException: Could not get duration: No parsable durations detected
at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.extractors.YoutubeStreamInfoItemLockupExtractor.getDuration(YoutubeStreamInfoItemLockupExtractor.java:167)
at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.stream.StreamInfoItemsCollector.extract(StreamInfoItemsCollector.java:52)
at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.MultiInfoItemsCollector.extract(MultiInfoItemsCollector.java:82)
at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.MultiInfoItemsCollector.extract(MultiInfoItemsCollector.java:48)
at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.InfoItemsCollector.commit(InfoItemsCollector.java:104)
at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.extractors.YoutubeStreamExtractor$$ExternalSyntheticLambda21.accept(R8$$SyntheticClass:0)
at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.extractors.YoutubeStreamExtractor.getRelatedItems(YoutubeStreamExtractor.java:821)
at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.extractors.YoutubeStreamExtractor.getRelatedItems(YoutubeStreamExtractor.java:104)
at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.utils.ExtractorHelper.getRelatedItemsOrLogError(ExtractorHelper.java:35)
at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.stream.StreamInfo.extractOptionalData(StreamInfo.java:339)
at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.stream.StreamInfo.getInfo(StreamInfo.java:82)
at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.stream.StreamInfo.getInfo(StreamInfo.java:72)
at org.schabi.newpipe.util.ExtractorHelper.$r8$lambda$bVfA-5gb6gDc8jcAgcGWG5oH0FE(ExtractorHelper.java:118)
at org.schabi.newpipe.util.ExtractorHelper$$ExternalSyntheticLambda3.call(R8$$SyntheticClass:0)

[jstetten]

Thanks. This is not a rare issue for me, happening multiple times a day, unpredictability.

Whether it's a YouTube A/B test or not, it only started happening on upgrading to 0.28.2.

[jstetten]

Sorry if this is obvious, but is there any chance the recent duration display problem is also the reason why recommended video thumbnails often don't display their watched state anymore? Might the PR above fix this too?