yet_urls

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yet_urls

yet_urls extracts a single video stream URL ("the best" quality one) from a YouTube video page. This module has the following exported methods:

WatchUrl

func WatchUrl(videoId string) *url.URL

WatchUrl provides a URL for a video-id, e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=video-id1 for "video-id1".

BestStreamingUrl

func BestStreamingUrl(videoId string) (*url.URL, error)

BestStreamingUrl extracts the URL for "the best" streaming format for a given YouTube video-id.

Here are the key steps to make that happen:

1. convert video-id to a full YouTube.com/watch URL
2. request page content at that URL
3. parse response as HTML document and find required node (iprScriptTextContent contains selection criteria)
4. decode ytInitialPlayerResponse object (to a minimal data struct)
5. select "the best" streaming format available (bestFormatByBitrate contains selection criteria)
6. return URL for that format