Sometimes seem to have YouTube UI or YouTube Data API v3 return empty responses

[Benjamin-Loison]

And even YouTube operational API instances home webpage?

diff --git a/videos.php b/videos.php
index d0ce18f..5123ebb 100644
--- a/videos.php
+++ b/videos.php
@@ -423,7 +423,15 @@
         }

         if ($options['snippet']) {
-            $json = getJSONFromHTMLForcingLanguage("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$id");
+            $opts = [
+                'http' => [
+                'header' => ['Accept-Language: en']
+                ]
+            ];
+            $html = getRemote("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$id", $opts);
+            $jsonStr = getJSONStringFromHTML($html);
+            $json = json_decode($jsonStr, true);
+            //$json = getJSONFromHTMLForcingLanguage("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$id");
             $contents = $json['contents']['twoColumnWatchNextResults']['results']['results']['contents'];
             // Note that `publishedAt` has a day only precision.
             $publishedAt = strtotime($contents[0]['videoPrimaryInfoRenderer']['dateText']['simpleText']);
@@ -432,6 +440,10 @@
                 'publishedAt' => $publishedAt,
                 'description' => $description
             ];
+            if (isset($_GET['monitoring'])) {
+                $item['monitoring'] = $html;
+            }
+
             $item['snippet'] = $snippet;
         }

Related to #11.

[Benjamin-Loison]

log.json

load_log_string.py:

import json

with open('log.json') as f:
    print(json.load(f))

python3 load_log_string.py > log_string.txt

getJSONPathFromKey log_string.txt '' ytInitialPlayerResponse | grep -- '--string'

 30 /videoDetails/shortDescription --string
 61 /microformat/playerMicroformatRenderer/description/simpleText --string

videos.html.zip

curl 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWdFMNQBcjs' > video.html
getJSONPathFromKey video.html | grep -- 'string'

119 /contents/twoColumnWatchNextResults/results/results/contents/1/videoSecondaryInfoRenderer/attributedDescription/content --string
184 /engagementPanels/2/engagementPanelSectionListRenderer/content/structuredDescriptionContentRenderer/items/1/expandableVideoDescriptionBodyRenderer/attributedDescriptionBodyText/content --string

There are other occurrences as HTML tags:

grep -o -- '.\{0,50\}--string.\{0,50\}' log.json

blic video\"><meta name=\"description\" content=\"--string0:00 Beginning0:06 Middle0:12 End\"><meta name=\"k
720\"><meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"--string0:00 Beginning0:06 Middle0:12 End\"><meta property
eo\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"--string0:00 Beginning0:06 Middle0:12 End\"><meta name=\"t
 video\"><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"--string0:00 Beginning0:06 Middle0:12 End\"><meta itemprop
",\"isOwnerViewing\":false,\"shortDescription\":\"--string\\n\\n0:00 Beginning\\n0:06 Middle\\n0:12 End\",\"
public video\"},\"description\":{\"simpleText\":\"--string\\n\\n0:00 Beginning\\n0:06 Middle\\n0:12 End\"},\

[Benjamin-Loison]

Should check if all other fields retrievable with YouTube operational API have HTML tags. Note that:

grep -o -- '.\{0,50\}--string.\{0,50\}' videos.html

"720"><meta property="og:description" content="--string0:00 Beginning0:06 Middle0:12 End"><meta property=
 video"><meta name="twitter:description" content="--string0:00 Beginning0:06 Middle0:12 End"><meta name="twi
blic video"><meta itemprop="description" content="--string0:00 Beginning0:06 Middle0:12 End"><meta itemprop=
eB3zQ","isOwnerViewing":false,"shortDescription":"--string\n\n0:00 Beginning\n0:06 Middle\n0:12 End","isCraw
t":"A public video"},"description":{"simpleText":"--string\n\n0:00 Beginning\n0:06 Middle\n0:12 End"},"lengt
ITY_HIDDEN"}},"attributedDescription":{"content":"--string\n\n0:00 Beginning\n0:06 Middle\n0:12 End","comman
ins"},"attributedDescriptionBodyText":{"content":"--string\n\n0:00 Beginning\n0:06 Middle\n0:12 End","comman