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Add parameters to get_video_info endpoint to fix 404 errors #938

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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions lib/info.js
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Expand Up @@ -325,6 +325,8 @@ const VIDEO_EURL = 'https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/';
const getVideoInfoPage = async(id, options) => {
const url = new URL(`https://${INFO_HOST}${INFO_PATH}`);
url.searchParams.set('video_id', id);
url.searchParams.set('c', 'TVHTML5');
url.searchParams.set('cver', '7.20190319');
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is it possible to get this number from one of the prev. fetched pages? not a big fan of hard coding version numbers... 😅

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Not sure, I got the information from @zerodytrash. StackOverflow answers also suggest 6.20180913 for the version
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67615278/get-video-info-youtube-endpoint-suddenly-returning-404-not-found

I tried it with other random numbers and strings and it seems to work too so I guess it only has to be set to something.

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actually just searching the watch page gave me this
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cver: 7.20190319 is over 1 year old...

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Should I change it to that value?

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setting cver to 2.20210621.02.00 seems to cause the issue all over again

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ok seems like to set cver to 2.20210621.02.00,you need to set c to WEB. but when i did this it still caused 404s sometimes

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for now i am applying a local patch with c set to TVHTML5 and cver set to 6.20180913

url.searchParams.set('eurl', VIDEO_EURL + id);
url.searchParams.set('ps', 'default');
url.searchParams.set('gl', 'US');
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