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Age Restricted Youtube Video Support
Is it possible to allow the bot to search (and play) age-restricted content on youtube? Could not find a setting on the generated API key to allow for age restricted content to be viewed.
Afaik there's no way of directly accessing restricted videos from the YouTube API without being logged in. In other words, you'll have to pass a YouTube account credentials by exporting your browser cookies and passing it to the client. This incidentally also allows accessing private/membership required videos/streams as long as the credentials allows it.
Quick search through code tells me you need to pass the cookie as a header here https://github.com/codetheweb/muse/blob/cc1f18bc196fe1b5acb6023dc23ab42f43b41ba7/src/services/youtube-api.ts#L67-L73
and the generated header should look something like this
What about the ytdl library? I've used ytdlp (Python fork) in some personal projects and age-restricted video downloads work as intended. Granted, I'm not sure how they do it, but it's probably not account credentials.
@Happyllama25 I've worked with yt-dlp before. Passing cookies to the client is the way. It's straight forward in code too, but since this project is written in typescript and doesn't rely on yt-dlp at all, we'll have to do on our own. But the proof of concept above should work.
Edit: you may have been on to something. It does work, sort-of by spoofing a TV client (?) Discussion on reddit here but apparently it's not foolproof if the owner of the video disables the option
It does work, sort-of
Yes, it works for me on my bot, something I did notice though is it seems to take longer to download an age-restricted video than a non-restricted one - not 100% sure, I have not done a 1:1 test of this.
Afaik there's no way of directly accessing restricted videos from the YouTube API without being logged in. In other words, you'll have to pass a YouTube account credentials by exporting your browser cookies and passing it to the client. This incidentally also allows accessing private/membership required videos/streams as long as the credentials allows it.
Quick search through code tells me you need to pass the cookie as a header here https://github.com/codetheweb/muse/blob/cc1f18bc196fe1b5acb6023dc23ab42f43b41ba7/src/services/youtube-api.ts#L67-L73
and the generated header should look something like this
@jogerj Did you by any chance implement this fix and if so did it work? I tried doing it and there were a few files that needed tweaking before I could even test it out.
@argjendzuh i've not looked into it and went with different solutions for music bot.
Anyways passing a cookie to yt-dlp just looks like this and this is documented here
This project uses ytdl-core (nothing to do with the youtube-api file I mentioned previously) , which supports this too. Just add where ytdl-core is used and pass cookies as described here and it should work