HTTP ERROR 403

[khaouitiabdelhakim]

Access to rr2---sn-f5o5-jhod.googlevideo.com was deniedYou don't have authorization to view this page.
HTTP ERROR 403

[elvismdev]

Same here.

@khaouitiabdelhakim Were you able to find why?

[khaouitiabdelhakim]

Hey @elvismdev I have had a same library https://github.com/khaouitiabdelhakim/Get-YouTube-Stream-Urls-JS that uses almost the same logic but it stops working just the 5 passed days due to 403 error. I do not know why because every thing is great until the passed 5 days hhh.

[khaouitiabdelhakim]

But I have today found a great other way to do it, and I'm testing it on my android streaming app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abdelhakim.faborfy, that you can check out @elvismdev.

the idea is that youtube has many client types and version like ANDROID, WEB_REMIX ... DESKTOP and more.
so I try to try the same logic of that library on all of them, it works for some videos but not for all;

You can check this method (by the way the solution I'm talking about is in Kotlin; I use it in my android Faborf app)

[khaouitiabdelhakim]

@elvismdev check this https://github.com/khaouitiabdelhakim/Get-YouTube-Stream-Urls-JS it is more expressive, but Until now I could not figure out the reason of 403 error
Here all the possbile problems that can be a cause that I tried to use but they do not same to be the cause
1- The youtube player uses a custom player with a custom timestamp so the ciphering method got from the base.js must be compatible with the version of the player: I tried to get urls and base.js of the same version but it did not work.
2- I thought that the problem was due to the rate limit or malicious activity detected by youtube so I tried to use a vpn; request using the vpn and cipher using the same ip address but it did not work;
3- Hope someone fix it because this problem is so FRESH
4- Meanwhile @elvismdev check this out https://tyrrrz.me/blog/reverse-engineering-youtube-revisited it is so good to unserdtand how all these libraires work;

[magickaito]

Facing same 403 error for the last few days. @khaouitiabdelhakim @elvismdev any solutions so far?

[dangdungcntt]

I will try to resolve this issue this weekend.

[Lichenwei-Dev]

I will try to resolve this issue this weekend.

I also have the problem

[khaouitiabdelhakim]

Have any one find a solution @dangdungcntt ?

[dangdungcntt]

I found a solution from node-ytdl-core fent/node-ytdl-core#1289 (comment)

[khaouitiabdelhakim]

so bro @dangdungcntt could you fix it?

[dangdungcntt]

@khaouitiabdelhakim You can use the solution I mentioned above since it is simpler than my current approach. Therefore, I have no plans to update my package."

[konsumer]

Yeh, it just gets the data, but it's very simple, has no-deps, and works in lots of environments (like CF workers.) @distube/ytdl-core uses this method.