YouTube Music Support about freyr-js

[vladdenisov]

Hey, just now first time got by your awesome tool! Feel free to open issues in my repo with missing/incorrectly working functionality, that you need to get YTMusic working in freyr-js. I'll do my best to fix them ASAP :)

[vladdenisov]

I've tried to make my library working without grabbing a cookie (search/track info), so I will soon try to integrate it into freyr-js.

[miraclx]

Sounds to me like what you're talking about is off-topic for freyr. Or am I missing something?

[EthanBnntt]

I'd love to try to make a node.js library for querying data from YouTube.

[miraclx]

@EthanBnntt, do you mean an API client like https://github.com/vladdenisov/ytmusic-api or a provider for freyr like https://github.com/miraclx/freyr-js/blob/master/src/services/spotify.js?

If the latter, the help would be much appreciated. I'd be happy to provide any useful insight on how to go about it.

[EthanBnntt]

I meant a library for pulling frontend data from YouTube. It would probably just query Invidious instances, as they provide a public API. Something more like https://github.com/vladdenisov/ytmusic-api. YouTube Music is just an alternative frontend to YouTube that only includes music.

[EthanBnntt]

Yes, I was talking about making a library separate from freyr and integrating it into freyr.

[miraclx]

YouTube Music is just an alternative frontend to YouTube that only includes music.

@EthanBnntt, freyr is a music-downloading utility. Isn't YouTube Music all we need? Is there a benefit to supporting the full YouTube catalog?

I haven't seen this documented anywhere but adding "?pbj=1" and appropriate headers to a YouTube (but not YouTube Music) URL returns JSON.

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For Search:
curl --location --request GET 'https://www.youtube.com/search?q=laya&pbj=1' --header 'X-Youtube-Client-Version: 2.20221026.05.00' --header 'X-Youtube-Client-Name: 1'

For Video URL (kinda?):
curl --location --request GET 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8foPUupIUi4&pbj=1' --header 'X-Youtube-Client-Version: 2.20221026.05.00' --header 'X-Youtube-Client-Name: 1'

[quartztester]

What's stopping this project from utilizing this other repo?
https://github.com/th-ch/youtube-music/tree/master/plugins/downloader

I am not that adept at Javascript but it would be interesting to know what method they are using to pull their YouTube video downloads. This seems to a project that could be combined with this repo due to their utilization of only HTML/CSS apart from JavaScript.

[miraclx]

@quartztester, it's the same strategy as freyr. Find the media ID, defer to youtube-dl to extract the feeds (freyr has a manual downloader, they may not), and encode with ffmpeg.

freyr does the extra step of embedding metadata with atomicparsley.