app/dangerous/lib.py

   1 import requests
   2 from datetime import datetime, timezone
   3
   4 def fetch_searchresults(q=None, page=1, sp=None):
   5     today = datetime.now(timezone.utc).strftime("%Y%m%d")
   6     r = requests.get(f"https://www.youtube.com/results", {
   7         'q': q, # Note: if we use '?search_query=' (as yt.com does), we can't use '&page=', but have to use a continuation url that requires an api key
   8         'pbj': 1, # makes youtube return a json-response
   9         'hl': 'en', #'en_US',
  10         'page': page,
  11         'sp': sp,
  12     }, headers={
  13         'x-youtube-client-name': '1',
  14         'x-youtube-client-version': f'2.{today}.01.01', # the version is parsed as a date, and if it's invalid (e.g. month>12 or even feb>=30), youtube throws an encrypted stacktrace :D (but any random date >= 20160323 as of 20200802 works (even year 3000)
  15     })
  16     if not r.ok:
  17         return None
  18
  19     return r.json()
  20
  21 def fetch_ajax(params):
  22     """
  23     fetch data using a continuation protobuf
  24     """
  25     # TODO: handle auto_generated!
  26     today = datetime.now(timezone.utc).strftime("%Y%m%d")
  27
  28     r = requests.get(f"https://www.youtube.com/browse_ajax", {
  29         'continuation': params,
  30         'gl': 'US',
  31         'hl': 'en',
  32     }, headers={
  33         'x-youtube-client-name': '1',
  34         'x-youtube-client-version': f'2.{today}.01.01', # see fetch_searchresults()
  35     })
  36
  37     if not r.ok:
  38         return None
  39
  40     return r.json()