YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by grishka on Friday October 23, 2020 @05:55PM (#24874684)

In the case of youtube-dl, they couldn't do that. At least VEVO videos have an additional layer of "protection" — the direct links to video files require a signature of some sort IIRC. Downloading a non-DRM-ed video is as easy as making a request to https://www.youtube.com/get_video_info?video_id=aqz-KE-bpKQ and then following a link to the format you need, but with those music videos, that won't work. So the test cases were a necessity.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by Kim_Bruning on Friday October 23, 2020 @07:06PM (#24875323)

Hmm, are you sure that link is correct? In firefox and chromium that gets me about 122K of not-very-easy-to-parse text.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by grishka on Friday October 23, 2020 @08:21PM (#24875792)

Yes, it's correct and it should return that. The top-level serialization format is simply a URL query string aka application/x-www-form-urlencoded. No idea why but probably historical reasons.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by getcrunk on Friday October 23, 2020 @10:09PM (#24876339)

So what do I do next?

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by jewel on Friday October 23, 2020 @10:58PM (#24876601)

In ruby:

  require 'cgi'
  require 'json'
  require 'net/http'
  res = Net::HTTP.get URI 'https://www.youtube.com/get_video_info?video_id=aqz-KE-bpKQ'
  vars = CGI.parse res
  json = JSON.parse vars["player_response"].first
  pp json["streamingData"]["formats"]

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