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Youtube get_video_info stream URL node url_encoded_fmt_stream_map
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youtube-stream-connection.js
const ytdl = require('youtube-dl');
var link = req.body.YTURL;
ytdl.exec(link, ['-f best', '-s', '-g'], {}, function(err, output) {
if (err) throw err;
res.json(output[0]);
});
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Shrekie commented Apr 20, 2018 •
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youtube-dl has some overhead but i cant get this to work consistently without it.

Please if someone has code for node to grab the stream URL please help out, the problem is mostly the fact that some youtube videos require you to update a signature as well which is another request and the documentation on this is scarce.

You can try to dig through source code of downloaders but I'm having a hard time figuring it out.

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