App returning private subscriptions incorrectly.

[jordanpickett1]

Up until today, I have been able to use the app just fine. Just today it started returning an error that my subscriptions are now private. I have checked and unchecked the box in my privacy settings but nothing seems to help it. What can I do?

[chhe]

I can confirm this error. The error displayed is the following:

Subscription List Private

The account that you entered has their
subscription list private. If you own this
account, you can go to your privacy settings
page at
https://www.youtube.com/account_privacy and
make it public.

However my subscriptions are not set to private.

It seems every API call to the old YouTube V2 API returns a "403 Forbidden".

[Tetralogy]

Same here, also if I try to click on a video link it just reloads into the enter your username page. I depend on this tool to see my subscriptions because youtube is awful. It's worked great for a long time since google killed the subscription grid.

[FrankGx]

I'm having the same problem: SaneGrid momentarily displays the previously updated videos, but then reverts to the message chhe quoted, above. My subscriptions are definitely public. It began right after there was a nearly day-long 'outage' when my YouTube Subscriptions page wasn't updating at all. I turned to SaneGrid as a 'life raft' during this period. When YouTube started updating again, SaneGrid went down. I suspect that a change was made at YouTube that stymied SaneGrid, but I'm only guessing.

[daviddeutsch]

Getting the same issue now, you guys. Very weird. It might be another one of these temporary API breakdowns. I will investigate.

[g-rocket]

The page is working perfectly find for me. Must be a thing that only effects some people. (or yt fixed it?)

[FakeFurball]

As of 5:00 PM PST, this issue is affecting me as well - it seems like a lot of things are returning either 404 or 403.

[daviddeutsch]

@FakeFurball Me too, I also experience similar issues on YT itself (there are a couple of similar things popping up on r/youtube - people not being able to use their YT subscriber feed in general) and I also have a bunch of other google servers behaving weirdly.

My search so far hasn't come up with anything proper, so I have a strong hunch this is their servers glitching out. I hope it's not an error that leaves us with permanent problems.

[daviddeutsch]

Please see the other topic for updates - the v2 API has been completely deprecated. I'm working on a fix right now. Will probably push a few more changes in there while I'm at it.

[daviddeutsch]

Seems like the API Access is bonked for now, always getting a 403 - I even submitted payment details and everything... Let's wait an hour or two and see whether it clears.

Bit worried about that billing stuff. I mean - you get 50M credits for free, but when a reddit spike hits, that might mean a few thousand users coming in and trying it out... I will have to check what the usage patterns are.

Also: This means that I can soon make use of all those neat API v3 features... Watch Later etc. Weee!