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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 sign

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 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.

Kim_Bruning 6y ago
Hmm, are you sure that link is correct? In firefox and chromium that gets me about 122K of not-very-easy-to-parse text.
- grishka 6y ago
  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.
  - getcrunk 6y ago
    So what do I do next?
    - jewel 6y ago
      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"]