youtube

YouTube

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.

youtubei

Since ANDROID is smaller, we want to pull as much from it as possible. Here is what we need to check:

StreamingData struct {
   AdaptiveFormats []struct {
      Bitrate         int64  // pass
      ContentLength   int64  // pass
      Height          int    // pass
      Itag            int    // pass
      MimeType        string // pass
      URL             string // pass
   }
}
VideoDetails struct {
   Author           string // pass
   ShortDescription string // pass
   Title            string // pass
   ViewCount        int    // pass
}
Microformat struct {
   PlayerMicroformatRenderer struct {
      AvailableCountries []string // fail
      PublishDate        string   // fail
   }
}

• 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

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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