Soundcloud.lua script stopped working

Soundcloud lua script needs updating.\ For me it stopped working something like 1-2 days ago.\ Debug messages look like the following:

#!div style="font-size: 80%"
```python
http debug: outgoing request: GET /media/soundcloud:tracks:998432470/b917d18f-13b2-4adb-8384-16d6bfb3f51e/stream/progressive HTTP/1.1 Host: api-v2.soundcloud.com Accept: */* Accept-Language: en_US User-Agent: VLC/3.0.4 LibVLC/3.0.4 Cookie: sclocale=en Range: bytes=0- 
http debug: in DATA (0x00) frame of 8192 bytes, flags 0x00, stream 1
http debug: in DATA (0x00) frame of 8192 bytes, flags 0x00, stream 1
http debug: in DATA (0x00) frame of 8192 bytes, flags 0x00, stream 1
http debug: in DATA (0x00) frame of 8192 bytes, flags 0x00, stream 1
http debug: in DATA (0x00) frame of 8192 bytes, flags 0x00, stream 1
http debug: in DATA (0x00) frame of 8192 bytes, flags 0x00, stream 1
http debug: in DATA (0x00) frame of 8192 bytes, flags 0x00, stream 1
http debug: in DATA (0x00) frame of 8192 bytes, flags 0x00, stream 1
http debug: in DATA (0x00) frame of 8192 bytes, flags 0x00, stream 1
http debug: in DATA (0x00) frame of 8192 bytes, flags 0x00, stream 1
http debug: in DATA (0x00) frame of 8192 bytes, flags 0x00, stream 1
http debug: in DATA (0x00) frame of 8192 bytes, flags 0x00, stream 1
http debug: in DATA (0x00) frame of 8192 bytes, flags 0x00, stream 1
http debug: in DATA (0x00) frame of 8192 bytes, flags 0x00, stream 1
http debug: in DATA (0x00) frame of 8192 bytes, flags 0x00, stream 1
http debug: in DATA (0x00) frame of 8192 bytes, flags 0x00, stream 1

http debug: incoming response: HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized Content-Length: 0 
Connection: keep-alive 
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2021 04:25:26 GMT 
X-Robots-Tag: noindex 
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0 
Referrer-Policy: no-referrer 
X-Frame-Options: 
DENY X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff 
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=63072000 
Server: am/2 Vary: 
Origin X-Cache: Error from cloudfront 
Via: 1.1 c04d52a870bb871e5a7b5071edb4b010.cloudfront.net (CloudFront) X-Amz-Cf-Pop: ATH50-C1 X-Amz-Cf-Id: CYjhJKpUDwTiVEMqkJLqonqE_1xfEgIYcQ4IbIw66MI2GeZMrwgIjQ== 
access error: HTTP 401 error
main debug: no access modules matched
main error: no suitable access module for `https://api-v2.soundcloud.com/media/soundcloud:tracks:998432470/b917d18f-13b2-4adb-8384-16d6bfb3f51e/stream/progressive'
lua error: Couldn't extract soundcloud audio URL, please check for updates to this script

}}}

NOTE:\ As a workaround there's a lua script for integrating youtube_dl into VLC.\ Haven't tried it yet. You can find it here:\ https://github.com/mjasny/vlc-youtubeDL

assigned to @linkfanel

added Component::LUA scripts label

Thanks for your report. This is apparently caused by the same underlying issue as #24957 (closed) with lines hitting the hardcoded internal limit of 200 kB. I've fixed it in: https://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commitdiff;h=302d55967b127a3519b714f8cdabd0257fbb3b45

As a workaround there's a lua script for integrating youtube_dl into VLC. Haven't tried it yet. You can find it here: ​https://github.com/mjasny/vlc-youtubeDL

I've taken a look at this and it seems to match and intercept any and all HTTP HTML content. This sounds risky to me and I would not recommend it. However, VLC 4 will integrate a proper similar youtube-dl module that doesn't rely on the lua API and is not affected by these limitations.

added Status::fixed label

closed

changed milestone to %3.0.13