Basic circumvention tool for searching and downloading from youtube, should *.googlevideo.com and drive.google.com be unblocked. It can be used to bypass both tls inspection and outright blocks of the youtube domain by sending requests to the fronting domain (in this case drive.google.com) with the "Host: www.youtube.com" header. The video downloads themselves are left unobscured, as google does not support fronting for their ephemeral video links.
It currently supports limited search functionality and the ability to download videos given the youtube link.
This program can be run in interactive mode using:
python3 domainfrontedyoutube/__main__.py
Or used as a module with:
import domainfrontedyoutube
domainfrontedyoutube.downloadfromlink(link)In interactive mode, video search is done with:
s <query>
When using the script as a module, video (and channel) search is done with:
domainfrontedyoutube.searchyoutube(query)The old interactive prompt is still accessible with:
python3 domainfrontedyoutube/__init__.py
But it is now also accessible via the ld command in interactive mode.
Youtube marks certain videos, specifically those containing copyrighted material, as undownloadable. Attempting to download such a video will cause the downloader to throw an error about the nonexistence of a certain "url_encoded_fmt_stream_map." It might be possible to bypass this limitation by grabbing the youtube page and parsing for information about the video rather than asking for www.youtube.com/get_video_info?video_id={}.
If you have a concrete suggestion about improving the code, feel free to open an issue.