Some videos do not have the url_encoded_fmt_stream_map meta data

owenvoke / youtube-dl-php

A quick and easy YouTube downloader/parser written in PHP.

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Some videos do not have the url_encoded_fmt_stream_map meta data #14

Open sfatfarma opened 4 years ago

sfatfarma commented 4 years ago

Hello,

Congrats for the library, it is really great!

I found that some videos do not have the url_encoded_fmt_stream_map meta data in their HTML content, because of this, they will not be able to be parsed. I haven't managed to find out in which conditions does this not appear in videos (live streamed videos?).

Example video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQZgYp2U_9o

Any thoughts on this?

Thanks!

sfatfarma commented 4 years ago

It seems that YouTube is rolling out an update for all videos, more and more are missing the url_encoded_fmt_stream_map meta data. I think it will be removed for good... :(