/player Google Videos 403 Which Causes The FFMPEG Issue [Fix Included!]
I have a fork in which it is fixed, https://github.com/erievs/FourthTube
But here is the fix
How The Fix Works
So how ThirdTube works is it uses a decrypter and some base.js tomfoolery to access /player (without 403ing). The issue with this approach is, well, it breaks a lot. It was fine when the dev was active, but the dev has not.
However
We don't need that, we just need to send IOS YouTube app data, and it makes it happy (this is one of the methods YT-DLP uses)
std::string video_content = R"({"videoId": "%0", %1"context": {"client": {"hl": "%2","gl": "%3","clientName": "IOS","clientVersion": "19.29.1","deviceMake": "Apple","deviceModel": "19.29.1","osName": "iPhone","userAgent": "com.google.ios.youtube/19.29.1 (iPhone16,2; U; CPU iOS 17_5_1 like Mac OS X;)\"","osVersion": "17.5.1.21F90"}}, "playbackContext": {"contentPlaybackContext": {"signatureTimestamp": %4}}})";
Issue
This causes the metadata to breaks, thankfully we just have a separate post_content and video_content strings and use both for
std::string json_str[2]; // {/next, /player}
json_str[0] = http_post_json(urls[0], post_content).second;
json_str[1] = http_post_json(urls[1], video_content).second; /
Absolute legend
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made a github acc just to say thank you
Thank you so much ♪┌|∵|┘♪
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