app/dangerous/lib.py

   1 import requests
   2 from datetime import datetime, timezone
   3
   4 from ..common.innertube import parse_result_items
   5
   6 def fetch_searchresults(q=None, page=1, sp=None):
   7     today = datetime.now(timezone.utc).strftime("%Y%m%d")
   8     r = requests.get(f"https://www.youtube.com/results", {
   9         '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
  10         'pbj': 1, # makes youtube return a json-response
  11         'hl': 'en', #'en_US',
  12         'page': page,
  13         'sp': sp,
  14     }, headers={
  15         'x-youtube-client-name': '1',
  16         'x-youtube-client-version': f'2.{today}.0.0', # 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)
  17     })
  18     if not r.ok:
  19         return None
  20
  21     return r.json()
  22
  23 def fetch_ajax(params):
  24     """
  25     fetch data using a continuation protobuf
  26     """
  27     # TODO: handle auto_generated!
  28     today = datetime.now(timezone.utc).strftime("%Y%m%d")
  29
  30     r = requests.get(f"https://www.youtube.com/browse_ajax", {
  31         'continuation': params,
  32         'gl': 'US',
  33         'hl': 'en',
  34     }, headers={
  35         'x-youtube-client-name': '1',
  36         'x-youtube-client-version': f'2.{today}.0.0', # see fetch_searchresults()
  37     })
  38     if not r.ok:
  39         return None
  40
  41     return r.json()