Importing YouTube Subscriptions from CSV fails with exception

[Fruchtzwerg94]

Checklist

• I am using the latest version - 0.21.13
• I checked, but didn't find any duplicates (open OR closed) of this issue in the repo.
• I have read the contribution guidelines given at https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/blob/HEAD/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md.
• This issue contains only one bug. I will open one issue for every bug report I want to file.

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Go to Menu
2. Go to the Subscriptions tab
3. Import from YouTube
4. Select CSV file

Actual behavior

Exception showed at importing the CSV file

Expected behavior

Import successful

Logs

Exception

• User Action: ui error
• Request: ACRA report
• Content Country: DE
• Content Language: de-DE
• App Language: de_DE
• Service: none
• Version: 0.21.13
• OS: Linux Android 12 - 31

Crash log

java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start service org.schabi.newpipe.local.subscription.services.SubscriptionsImportService@e2486eb with Intent { cmp=org.schabi.newpipe/.local.subscription.services.SubscriptionsImportService (has extras) }: java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: opening provider com.android.providers.media.MediaDocumentsProvider from ProcessRecord{66aa690 7020:org.schabi.newpipe/u0a306} (pid=7020, uid=10306) requires that you obtain access using ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT or related APIs
	at android.app.ActivityThread.handleServiceArgs(ActivityThread.java:4657)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2000(ActivityThread.java:247)
	at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2091)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:201)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:288)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7838)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
	at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:548)
	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1003)
Caused by: java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: opening provider com.android.providers.media.MediaDocumentsProvider from ProcessRecord{66aa690 7020:org.schabi.newpipe/u0a306} (pid=7020, uid=10306) requires that you obtain access using ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT or related APIs
	at android.os.Parcel.createExceptionOrNull(Parcel.java:2425)
	at android.os.Parcel.createException(Parcel.java:2409)
	at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:2392)
	at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:2334)
	at android.app.IActivityManager$Stub$Proxy.getContentProvider(IActivityManager.java:5850)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.acquireProvider(ActivityThread.java:6972)
	at android.app.ContextImpl$ApplicationContentResolver.acquireUnstableProvider(ContextImpl.java:3336)
	at android.content.ContentResolver.acquireUnstableProvider(ContentResolver.java:2526)
	at android.content.ContentResolver.openAssetFileDescriptor(ContentResolver.java:1844)
	at android.content.ContentResolver.openFileDescriptor(ContentResolver.java:1675)
	at android.content.ContentResolver.openFileDescriptor(ContentResolver.java:1622)
	at us.shandian.giga.io.FileStreamSAF.<init>(FileStreamSAF.java:32)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.streams.io.StoredFileHelper.getStream(StoredFileHelper.java:195)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.local.subscription.services.SubscriptionsImportService.onStartCommand(SubscriptionsImportService.java:118)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.handleServiceArgs(ActivityThread.java:4639)
	... 9 more

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Device info

• Android version/Custom ROM version: Android 12
• Device model: Google Pixel 4 5G

Updates / potential hints

Placing the CSV file at the Music location instead of Download, the import works without problems. For me it looks like the storage API changes are not aligned with the app (see: Access documents and other files from shared storage)

On Android 11 (API level 30) and higher, you cannot use the ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT intent action to request that the user select individual files from the following directories

Since API level 29 is used as app target, the following could fix the issue:

Scoped storage enforcement
Apps that run on Android 11 but target Android 10 (API level 29) can still request the requestLegacyExternalStorage attribute. This flag allows apps to temporarily opt out of the changes associated with scoped storage, such as granting access to different directories and different types of media files. After you update your app to target Android 11, the system ignores the requestLegacyExternalStorage flag.

[litetex]

Caused by: java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: opening provider com.android.providers.media.MediaDocumentsProvider from ProcessRecord{66aa690 7020:org.schabi.newpipe/u0a306} (pid=7020, uid=10306) requires that you obtain access using ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT or related APIs

Looks like a permission is missing or something similar (maybe the file is protected by something?).
Might be related to Android 12.

[Fruchtzwerg94]

Caused by: java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: opening provider com.android.providers.media.MediaDocumentsProvider from ProcessRecord{66aa690 7020:org.schabi.newpipe/u0a306} (pid=7020, uid=10306) requires that you obtain access using ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT or related APIs

Looks like a permission is missing or something similar (maybe the file is protected by something?). Might be related to Android 12.

Since I also stumpled over problems liks this in some of my projects, I've also tried to place the file at different locations (Download, Movies, ...) with some success here:
Placing the file at Music allows import. Looks like the issue is also described here and here.

So this could already fix it from my point of view:

Scoped storage enforcement
Apps that run on Android 11 but target Android 10 (API level 29) can still request the requestLegacyExternalStorage attribute. This flag allows apps to temporarily opt out of the changes associated with scoped storage, such as granting access to different directories and different types of media files. After you update your app to target Android 11, the system ignores the requestLegacyExternalStorage flag.

[R030t1]

I moved it into Music and still get a crash. The documentation references subscriptions being provided as json, not csv. The format is expected?

[Fruchtzwerg94]

Hi @R030t1

CSV is definitively expected. This is a translation issue which I've already fixed for the german language in the Weblate translation project.

[litetex]

I moved it into Music and still get a crash.

Could you paste the crash/exception here or open a new issue?

[LostQuasar]

The issue is permissions the app does not request access to files before importing the csv which causes it to crash

Some bad formatted stacktrace which was nearly identical to that one in the issue-description above

[wh0isit]

A workaround is to download a video first. This triggers the folder permission screen and the csv will import successfully.

[azazar]

It crashes when I try to import YouTube subscriptions from CSV file from Downloads directory.

Version: 0.23.0 downloaded from F-Droid

java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start service org.schabi.newpipe.local.subscription.services.SubscriptionsImportService@b4ce94b with Intent { cmp=org.schabi.newpipe/.local.subscription.services.SubscriptionsImportService (has extras) }: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Media is read-only
 at android.app.ActivityThread.handleServiceArgs(ActivityThread.java:4500)
 at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2100(ActivityThread.java:261)
 at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2063)
 at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
 at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:236)
 at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8051)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
 at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:620)
 at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1011)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Media is read-only
 at android.database.DatabaseUtils.readExceptionFromParcel(DatabaseUtils.java:172)
 at android.database.DatabaseUtils.readExceptionWithFileNotFoundExceptionFromParcel(DatabaseUtils.java:153)
 at android.content.ContentProviderProxy.openAssetFile(ContentProviderNative.java:704)
 at android.content.ContentResolver.openAssetFileDescriptor(ContentResolver.java:1841)
 at android.content.ContentResolver.openFileDescriptor(ContentResolver.java:1656)
 at android.content.ContentResolver.openFileDescriptor(ContentResolver.java:1603)
 at us.shandian.giga.io.FileStreamSAF.<init>(FileStreamSAF.java:32)
 at org.schabi.newpipe.streams.io.StoredFileHelper.getStream(StoredFileHelper.java:195)
 at org.schabi.newpipe.local.subscription.services.SubscriptionsImportService.onStartCommand(SubscriptionsImportService.java:118)
 at android.app.ActivityThread.handleServiceArgs(ActivityThread.java:4477)
 ... 8 more

Importing from Music directory worked.