Blocks on particular queries

[Harry-the-11th]

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I was testing live videos today, and when searching up hot topics such as world cup live, it returns nothing and says bad request and Cannot read properties of null (reading '0') on the console? I can search other things though, even usa live news.

This is probably a specific ban or rate limits on such things, just asking out there? Of course, I hadn't expected live videos to work on this site, my issue is certain queries appear disabled, first time I encountered this?

Any advice/insight are very kindly appreciated, and happy World Cup!⚽️

[Entinty1999]

This probably has to do with the API YTm15 uses for search, so I’m not sure anything can be done about it

[Harry-the-11th]

This probably has to do with the API YTm15 uses for search, so I’m not sure anything can be done about it

But why draw a blank? Geoblocking? YouTube searches world cup 2026 perfectly fine.

I was able to go around using world cup 2026z instead, though it's hit or miss.

Screen.Recording.2026-06-29.104443.mp4

[Entinty1999]

This probably has to do with the API YTm15 uses for search, so I’m not sure anything can be done about it

But why draw a blank? Geoblocking? YouTube searches world cup 2026 perfectly fine.

I was able to go around using world cup 2026z instead, though it's hit or miss.

Screen.Recording.2026-06-29.104443.mp4

I have no idea, maybe @Yacine-Book knows since he’s the main developer of YTm15