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secrecyflag / UnBloated-YouTube

UnBloated-YouTube is a YouTube scraper project which tries to be simple and non-bloat, while preserving privacy for his users.
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Age bypassing #2

Open secrecyflag opened 2 years ago

secrecyflag commented 2 years ago

Age bypassing is very critical because many videos has an age restriction. Age restriction on YouTube is working by using signatureCipher, which currently for my knowledge it needs to be decrypted, and the decryption algorithm is in plain JS. After decryption, it needs to be added to the video (googlevideo) URL.

secrecyflag commented 2 years ago

Age bypassing is not based at all on the signatureCipher which that's what I thought. the signature cipher is just a way to make it harder to stream/download videos outside of YouTube website. Currently the only workaround I know is by sending a c parameter with a "ANDROID_EMBED" data to some URL.