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fix: switch youtube innertube to ANDROID client (WEB blocked)

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YouTube's InnerTube /player endpoint now returns LOGIN_REQUIRED for the
WEB client. Switch to ANDROID client context which still returns full
videoDetails. Fixes missing duration in announcements and broken channel
resolution from video URLs.

Extract shared _innertube_player() helper to deduplicate payload
construction between _resolve_via_innertube and _fetch_duration.
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2026-02-20 19:38:01 +01:00
parent 3de3f054df
commit 7c40a6b7f1
1 changed files with 28 additions and 32 deletions
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@@ -24,7 +24,9 @@ _VIDEO_ID_RE = re.compile(r"(?:v=|youtu\.be/|/embed/|/shorts/)([A-Za-z0-9_-]{11}
_YT_DOMAINS = {"youtube.com", "www.youtube.com", "m.youtube.com", "youtu.be"}
_YT_FEED_URL = "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id={}"
_YT_PLAYER_URL = "https://www.youtube.com/youtubei/v1/player"
_YT_CLIENT_VERSION = "2.20250101.00.00"
_ANDROID_VERSION = "19.29.37"
_ANDROID_SDK = 33
_ANDROID_UA = f"com.google.android.youtube/{_ANDROID_VERSION} (Linux; U; Android 13)"
_ATOM_NS = "{http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}"
_YT_NS = "{http://www.youtube.com/xml/schemas/2015}"
_MEDIA_NS = "{http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/}"
@@ -107,33 +109,41 @@ def _extract_video_id(url: str) -> str | None:
# -- Blocking helpers (for executor) -----------------------------------------
def _resolve_via_innertube(video_id: str) -> str | None:
"""Resolve video ID to channel ID via InnerTube player API. Blocking.
def _innertube_player(video_id: str) -> dict:
"""Fetch videoDetails via InnerTube ANDROID client. Blocking.
Small JSON request/response -- much more resilient to transient proxy
issues than fetching the full 1MB watch page.
Uses ANDROID client -- WEB client returns LOGIN_REQUIRED since ~2026-02.
Returns videoDetails dict, or {} on failure.
"""
payload = json.dumps({
"context": {
"client": {
"clientName": "WEB",
"clientVersion": _YT_CLIENT_VERSION,
"clientName": "ANDROID",
"clientVersion": _ANDROID_VERSION,
"androidSdkVersion": _ANDROID_SDK,
},
},
"videoId": video_id,
}).encode()
req = urllib.request.Request(_YT_PLAYER_URL, data=payload, method="POST")
req.add_header("Content-Type", "application/json")
req.add_header("User-Agent", _ANDROID_UA)
try:
resp = _urlopen(req, timeout=_FETCH_TIMEOUT)
raw = resp.read()
resp.close()
data = json.loads(raw)
channel_id = (data.get("videoDetails") or {}).get("channelId", "")
if channel_id and _CHANNEL_ID_RE.fullmatch(channel_id):
return channel_id
return data.get("videoDetails") or {}
except Exception:
pass
return {}
def _resolve_via_innertube(video_id: str) -> str | None:
"""Resolve video ID to channel ID via InnerTube player API. Blocking."""
details = _innertube_player(video_id)
channel_id = details.get("channelId", "")
if channel_id and _CHANNEL_ID_RE.fullmatch(channel_id):
return channel_id
return None
@@ -142,28 +152,14 @@ def _fetch_duration(video_id: str) -> int:
Returns 0 on failure or for live content.
"""
payload = json.dumps({
"context": {
"client": {
"clientName": "WEB",
"clientVersion": _YT_CLIENT_VERSION,
},
},
"videoId": video_id,
}).encode()
req = urllib.request.Request(_YT_PLAYER_URL, data=payload, method="POST")
req.add_header("Content-Type", "application/json")
details = _innertube_player(video_id)
if not details:
return 0
if details.get("isLiveContent") and details.get("isLive"):
return 0
try:
resp = _urlopen(req, timeout=_FETCH_TIMEOUT)
raw = resp.read()
resp.close()
data = json.loads(raw)
details = data.get("videoDetails") or {}
if details.get("isLiveContent") and details.get("isLive"):
return 0
secs = int(details.get("lengthSeconds", 0))
return secs
except Exception:
return int(details.get("lengthSeconds", 0))
except (ValueError, TypeError):
return 0