youtube

YouTube

youtubei

This new method downloads 72.2 KB.

How much is the old method?

PS C:\> curl -I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpNXI3_ctAc
content-length: 502,514

• https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor/issues/562
• https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor/issues/568
• https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/1981
• https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/1985

watch

desktop:

curl -o index.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpNXI3_ctAc

Next:

<script nonce="GWQS4dROIhbOWa4QpveqWw">var ytInitialPlayerResponse = {"respons...
...ta":false,"viewCount":"11059","category":"Music","publishDate":"2020-10-02"...
...1"}},"adSlotLoggingData":{"serializedSlotAdServingDataEntry":""}}}]};</script>

Next:

<script nonce="GWQS4dROIhbOWa4QpveqWw">var ytInitialPlayerResponse = {"respons...
...u0026sp=sig\u0026url=https://r4---sn-q4flrner.googlevideo.com/videoplayback...
...1"}},"adSlotLoggingData":{"serializedSlotAdServingDataEntry":""}}}]};</script>

mobile good:

Never Gonna Reach Me
curl -o index.html -A iPad https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UpNXI3_ctAc

mobile bad:

Goon Gumpas
curl -o index.html -A iPad https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NMYIVsdGfoo

Search

So, we are looking for this:

/watch?v=XFkzRNyygfk

First result:

<script nonce="TCh7gubawSzSBgq1Zg3rSA">var ytInitialData = {"responseContext"...
...ead creep cover","radiohead fake plastic trees","radiohead kid a"]};</script>

Everything after var ytInitialData = and before ; is valid JSON. The search results are here:

contents	
   twoColumnSearchResultsRenderer	
      primaryContents	
         sectionListRenderer	
            contents	
               0	
                  itemSectionRenderer	
                     contents

careful, first result might be an advertisement.

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Links

• https://github.com/iawia002/annie/issues/839
• https://github.com/kkdai/youtube/issues/186
• https://golang.org/pkg/net/http#Header.WriteSubset
• https://superuser.com/questions/773719/how-do-all-of-these-save-video