Comments on: YouTube’s H.264 File URL

by: Gábor Szántó

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:59:23 +0000

The experimental solution is not working yet, we need to examine further the iPhone Youtube app’s login to get an auth token, described here:

http://iphone.fiveforty.net/wiki/index.php/Youtube

by: Gábor Szántó

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:37:40 +0000

Thanks for the dumps Richard, i made an (experimental) solution:

http://stubes.net/data.php?what=youtubevid&h264=true&id=vjhSp7xGsMc

You can change the Youtube video’s id in the url. It gives you an XML page where you get a direct link to the H264 file.

by: Gábor Szántó

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:39:21 +0000

Can you please send the whole communication/output to my e-mail address? I think the trick is in the other parts.

by: Richard

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:57:15 +0000

jvc: yes, use Safari, or use Firefox that is setup to spoof a website making it think it is safari. Saying that, Leslie also got it working without spoofing recently.

by: jvc

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:24:20 +0000

so is there any way to get these h.264 urls without an ipod/iphone?

by: Richard

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:31:35 +0000

That’s interesting Leslie. I wonder what makes the difference.

by: Leslie

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:15:56 +0000

Aha, tinyurl’ing it works in IE.

by: Leslie

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:13:44 +0000

The URL can now be opened by default in Firefox (without needing to spoof the UA), but IE still results in a “Forbidden” error.

by: Richard

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 01:24:53 +0000

Thanks Leslie. And good idea spoofing the user-agent.

by: Leslie

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:51:20 +0000

Great post, Richard. I was able to grab that URL with Firefox by spoofing the iPod Touch’s user-agent;

Mozila/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Geckto) Version/3.0 Mobile/3A101a Safari/419.3

So what security there is is somewhat trivial. Weirdly, the file downloads with a double-dot file extension, ie. be3852a7bc46b0c7..mp4