Simple program to pretty-print a request to YouTube's `get_video_info` endpoint.

get_info.py

#!/usr/bin/python3

# Leo Krashanoff
# (c) 2021
# Subject to contents of MIT License
#
# Originally written for maguro: https://github.com/krashanoff/maguro

from urllib.parse import parse_qs, unquote
from requests import get
from argparse import ArgumentParser
from json import dumps, loads

ENDPOINT = "https://www.youtube.com/get_video_info?video_id="
FIELD_NAME = "player_response="

if __name__ == "__main__":
    parser = ArgumentParser(
        "getinfo",
        description="Write the output of a request to `/get_video_info?video_id=...` to stdout.",
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "ID", type=str, help="ID of the video to reference."
    )
    args = parser.parse_args()

    res = get(f"{ENDPOINT}{args.ID}")
    if res.status_code != 200:
        exit(1)
    readable = parse_qs(str(res.content, 'utf-8'))["player_response"][0].replace("\"", "\"")
    print(dumps(loads(readable), indent=2))