If YouTube detect that requests come from a third party client, they may
replace the real player response by another one of a video saying that this
content is not available on this app and to watch it on the latest version of
YouTube. We can detect this by checking whether the video ID of the player
response returned is the same as the one requested by the extractor.
Additional parameters have been added to the player requests of ANDROID and IOS
clients:
- for both clients: osName and osVersion: their respective values are:
- for the ANDROID one: Android and 12;
- for the IOS one: iOS and 15.6.0.19G71.
- for the ANDROID client: androidTargetSdkVersion, with the Android SDK version
corresponding to the Android version used in the player requests of this
client. This parameter is now required with this client to be sure to get a
correct player response, otherwise, the one of a video saying that this
content is not available in this app and to watch it with the latest version
of YouTube can be returned instead;
- for the IOS client: deviceMake, with Apple as its value.
The iOS version sent in the IOS client player requests has been also updated to
the version 15.6 of the OS.
Finally, a comment about the requirement to use the signature timestamp from
the player JavaScript base file for HTML5 player requests on videos with
obfuscated URLs has been added and replaces a previous one which may be not
true.
Common code in WEB client version HTML extraction has been deduplicated, usage of the Java 8 Stream API has been made and initial data fallback has been used as a last resort.
This means that the client version extraction from regexes will be used before this fallback, as it doesn't contain the full client version.
This can be used as a way to fingerprint the extractor, even if it seems to be not the case.
This will prevent any future extractor break due to decryption failure, like it was excepted to be the case before.
Some documentation about the throttling decryption has been also improved.
The ANDROID client was only fetched for video contents, where it can be useful on ended/post livestreams, if the n parameter of the WEB client cannot be decrypted, to avoid throttling issues (because the WEB client was only used before for ended/post livestreams).
It also provides an exclusive 48kbps M4A audio format in the adaptiveFormats array of the JSON player response, like other mobile clients (which can be also extracted from the response of the DASH manifest URL returned into the WEB client player's response, but the DASH manifest is not used by the extractor).
A note about non-fatality of fetching or parsing issues of the ANDROID and IOS clients has been added.
SoundCloud is currently removing this workaround completely, so there is no need to keep it, because it impacts the loading time (a HLS playlist was downloaded and parsed).
These values were only set before for video streams.
A fallback for the audio channels count has been added, in order to prevent exceptions when generating DASH manifests of audio streams: the fallback value is 2, because most audio streams on YouTube have 2 audio channels.
SoundCloud broke the workaround used to get a single file from HLS manifests for Opus manifests, but it still works for MP3 ones.
The code has been adapted to prevent an unneeded request (the one to the Opus HLS manifest) and the HLS delivery method is now used for SoundCloud MP3 and Opus streams, plus the progressive one (for tracks which have a progressive stream (MP3) and for the ones which doesn't have one, it is still used by trying to get a progressive stream, using the workaround).
Streams extraction has been also moved to Java 8 Stream's API and the relevant test has been also updated.
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