diff --git a/src/types/innerTubeApi.model.ts b/src/types/innerTubeApi.model.ts
index 28e46c8..04c1028 100644
--- a/src/types/innerTubeApi.model.ts
+++ b/src/types/innerTubeApi.model.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 export interface innerTubeVideoDetails {
     "videoId": string,
     "title": string,
-    "lengthSeconds": string, // yes, don't ask.
+    "lengthSeconds"?: string, // yes, don't ask.
     "channelId": string,
     "isOwnerViewing": boolean,
     "shortDescription": string,
diff --git a/src/utils/innerTubeAPI.ts b/src/utils/innerTubeAPI.ts
index 475cda9..9361a8d 100644
--- a/src/utils/innerTubeAPI.ts
+++ b/src/utils/innerTubeAPI.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,30 @@ import { Logger } from "./logger";
 import { innerTubeVideoDetails } from "../types/innerTubeApi.model";
 import DiskCache from "./diskCache";
 
+const privateResponse = (videoId: string): innerTubeVideoDetails => ({
+    videoId,
+    title: "",
+    channelId: "",
+    // exclude video duration
+    isOwnerViewing: false,
+    shortDescription: "",
+    isCrawlable: false,
+    thumbnail: {
+        thumbnails: [{
+            url: "https://s.ytimg.com/yts/img/meh7-vflGevej7.png",
+            width: 140,
+            height: 100
+        }]
+    },
+    allowRatings: false,
+    viewCount: "0", // yes, don't ask
+    author: "",
+    isPrivate: true,
+    isUnpluggedCorpus: true,
+    isLiveContent: false,
+    publishDate: ""
+});
+
 async function getFromITube (videoID: string): Promise<innerTubeVideoDetails> {
     // start subrequest
     const url = "https://www.youtube.com/youtubei/v1/player";
@@ -20,9 +44,9 @@ async function getFromITube (videoID: string): Promise<innerTubeVideoDetails> {
     });
     /* istanbul ignore else */
     if (result.status === 200) {
-        return result.data.videoDetails;
+        return result.data?.videoDetails ?? privateResponse(videoID);
     } else {
-        return Promise.reject(result.status);
+        return Promise.reject(`Innertube returned non-200 response: ${result.status}`);
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/test/cases/innerTubeApi.ts b/test/cases/innerTubeApi.ts
index 0c98642..d65b5cc 100644
--- a/test/cases/innerTubeApi.ts
+++ b/test/cases/innerTubeApi.ts
@@ -46,4 +46,9 @@ describe("innertube API test", function() {
         const videoDetail = await getVideoDetails(videoID);
         assert.ok(videoDetail);
     });
+    it("Should not fail when getting data for private video", async function () {
+        const privateVideoId = "ZuibAax0VD8";
+        const videoDetail = await getVideoDetails(privateVideoId);
+        assert.ok(videoDetail);
+    });
 });
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diff --git a/test/cases/postSkipSegments.ts b/test/cases/postSkipSegments.ts
index 57ebeb8..233f511 100644
--- a/test/cases/postSkipSegments.ts
+++ b/test/cases/postSkipSegments.ts
@@ -1292,4 +1292,20 @@ describe("postSkipSegments", () => {
             })
             .catch(err => done(err));
     });
+
+    it("Should successfully submit if video is private", (done) => {
+        const videoID = "private-video";
+        postSkipSegmentParam({
+            videoID,
+            startTime: 1,
+            endTime: 5,
+            category: "sponsor",
+            userID: submitUserTwo
+        })
+            .then(res => {
+                assert.strictEqual(res.status, 200);
+                done();
+            })
+            .catch(err => done(err));
+    });
 });
diff --git a/test/mocks/youtubeMock.ts b/test/mocks/youtubeMock.ts
index 95f3d20..c8f60c0 100644
--- a/test/mocks/youtubeMock.ts
+++ b/test/mocks/youtubeMock.ts
@@ -63,6 +63,11 @@ export class YouTubeApiMock {
                     lengthSeconds: 100,
                 } as APIVideoData
             };
+        } else if (obj.id === "private-video") {
+            return {
+                err: false,
+                data: {} as APIVideoData
+            };
         } else {
             return {
                 err: false,