Re: (was Re: Adding a description text property for a track) non-free javascript and ytdl

[Yuchen Pei]

On Wed 2022-03-23 20:32:36 +0100, Alexandre Garreau wrote:

>
> I don’t see how GET/POST is related: you can use POST without any javascript
> (both POST and PUT existed before javascript), while for youtube, even any GET
> statement provides nothing but a blank page, and you need to execute
> javascript to get anything.
>

You can download a yt video by GET only:

wget -O- 2>/dev/null https://youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ | grep -oP
'ytInitialPlayerResponse\s*=\s*(.+)\s*;</script>' | grep -o '\{.*\}' |
jq .

There you get a json with all the video / audio formats and their links.

Best,
Yuchen

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