version v0.3.0

tests/test_util.py: 14 warnings
  /home/runner/work/yt-local/youtube-local/youtube/util.py:321: DeprecationWarning: HTTPResponse.getheader() is deprecated and will be removed in urllib3 v2.1.0. Instead use HTTPResponse.headers.get(name, default).
    response.getheader('Content-Encoding', default='identity'))

.gitea/workflows/ci.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+name: CI
+
+on: [push, pull_request]
+
+jobs:
+  test:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: 3.11
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          pip install --upgrade pip
+          pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
+
+      - name: Run tests
+        run: pytest

.gitea/workflows/git-sync.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+name: git-sync-with-mirror
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ master ]
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+jobs:
+  git-sync:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - name: git-sync
+        env:
+          git_sync_source_repo: git@git.fridu.us:heckyel/yt-local.git
+          git_sync_destination_repo: ssh://git@c.fridu.us/software/yt-local.git
+        if: env.git_sync_source_repo && env.git_sync_destination_repo
+        uses: astounds/git-sync@v1
+        with:
+          source_repo: git@git.fridu.us:heckyel/yt-local.git
+          source_branch: "master"
+          destination_repo: ssh://git@c.fridu.us/software/yt-local.git
+          destination_branch: "master"
+          source_ssh_private_key: ${{ secrets.GIT_SYNC_SOURCE_SSH_PRIVATE_KEY }}
+          destination_ssh_private_key:  ${{ secrets.GIT_SYNC_DESTINATION_SSH_PRIVATE_KEY }}
+
+      - name: git-sync-sourcehut
+        env:
+          git_sync_source_repo: git@git.fridu.us:heckyel/yt-local.git
+          git_sync_destination_repo: git@git.sr.ht:~heckyel/yt-local
+        if: env.git_sync_source_repo && env.git_sync_destination_repo
+        uses: astounds/git-sync@v1
+        with:
+          source_repo: git@git.fridu.us:heckyel/yt-local.git
+          source_branch: "master"
+          destination_repo: git@git.sr.ht:~heckyel/yt-local
+          destination_branch: "master"
+          source_ssh_private_key: ${{ secrets.GIT_SYNC_SOURCE_SSH_PRIVATE_KEY }}
+          destination_ssh_private_key:  ${{ secrets.GIT_SYNC_DESTINATION_SSH_PRIVATE_KEY }}
+        continue-on-error: true

README.md

@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ For coding guidelines and an overview of the software architecture, see the [HAC
 
 yt-local is not made to work in public mode, however there is an instance of yt-local in public mode but with less features
 
-- <https://1cd1-93-95-230-133.ngrok-free.app/https://youtube.com>
+- <https://m.fridu.us/https://youtube.com>
 
 ## License
 

requirements-dev.txt

@@ -1,21 +1,5 @@
-blinker==1.7.0
+# Include all production requirements
-Brotli==1.1.0
+-r requirements.txt
-cachetools==5.3.3
+
-click==8.1.7
+# Development requirements
-defusedxml==0.7.1
+pytest>=6.2.1
-Flask==3.0.2
-gevent==24.2.1
-greenlet==3.0.3
-iniconfig==2.0.0
-itsdangerous==2.1.2
-Jinja2==3.1.3
-MarkupSafe==2.1.5
-packaging==24.0
-pluggy==1.4.0
-PySocks==1.7.1
-pytest==8.1.1
-stem==1.8.2
-urllib3==2.2.1
-Werkzeug==3.0.1
-zope.event==5.0
-zope.interface==6.2

requirements.txt

@@ -1,17 +1,8 @@
-blinker==1.7.0
+Flask>=1.0.3
-Brotli==1.1.0
+gevent>=1.2.2
-cachetools==5.3.3
+Brotli>=1.0.7
-click==8.1.7
+PySocks>=1.6.8
-defusedxml==0.7.1
+urllib3>=1.24.1
-Flask==3.0.2
+defusedxml>=0.5.0
-gevent==24.2.1
+cachetools>=4.0.0
-greenlet==3.0.3
+stem>=1.8.0
-itsdangerous==2.1.2
-Jinja2==3.1.3
-MarkupSafe==2.1.5
-PySocks==1.7.1
-stem==1.8.2
-urllib3==2.2.1
-Werkzeug==3.0.1
-zope.event==5.0
-zope.interface==6.2

settings.py

@@ -322,13 +322,6 @@ Archive: https://archive.ph/OZQbN''',
         'comment': '',
     }),
 
-    ('gather_googlevideo_domains', {
-        'type': bool,
-        'default': False,
-        'comment': '''Developer use to debug 403s''',
-        'hidden': True,
-    }),
-
     ('debugging_save_responses', {
         'type': bool,
         'default': False,
@@ -338,7 +331,7 @@ Archive: https://archive.ph/OZQbN''',
 
     ('settings_version', {
         'type': int,
-        'default': 5,
+        'default': 6,
         'comment': '''Do not change, remove, or comment out this value, or else your settings may be lost or corrupted''',
         'hidden': True,
     }),
@@ -419,11 +412,20 @@ def upgrade_to_5(settings_dict):
     return new_settings
 
 
+def upgrade_to_6(settings_dict):
+    new_settings = settings_dict.copy()
+    if 'gather_googlevideo_domains' in new_settings:
+        del new_settings['gather_googlevideo_domains']
+    new_settings['settings_version'] = 6
+    return new_settings
+
+
 upgrade_functions = {
     1: upgrade_to_2,
     2: upgrade_to_3,
     3: upgrade_to_4,
     4: upgrade_to_5,
+    5: upgrade_to_6,
 }
 
 

youtube/__init__.py

@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ def error_page(e):
     elif (exc_info()[0] == util.FetchError
         and exc_info()[1].code == '404'
     ):
-        error_message = ('Error: The page you are looking for isn\'t here. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯')
+        error_message = ('Error: The page you are looking for isn\'t here.')
         return flask.render_template('error.html',
                                      error_code=exc_info()[1].code,
                                      error_message=error_message,

youtube/channel.py

@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ def get_number_of_videos_channel(channel_id):
     try:
         response = util.fetch_url(url, headers_mobile,
             debug_name='number_of_videos', report_text='Got number of videos')
-    except urllib.error.HTTPError as e:
+    except (urllib.error.HTTPError, util.FetchError) as e:
         traceback.print_exc()
         print("Couldn't retrieve number of videos")
         return 1000

youtube/get_app_version/get_app_version.py

@@ -11,17 +11,10 @@ import subprocess
 def app_version():
     def minimal_env_cmd(cmd):
         # make minimal environment
-        env = {}
+        env = {k: os.environ[k] for k in ['SYSTEMROOT', 'PATH'] if k in os.environ}
-        for k in ['SYSTEMROOT', 'PATH']:
+        env.update({'LANGUAGE': 'C', 'LANG': 'C', 'LC_ALL': 'C'})
-            v = os.environ.get(k)
-            if v is not None:
-                env[k] = v
 
-        env['LANGUAGE'] = 'C'
+        out = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, env=env).communicate()[0]
-        env['LANG'] = 'C'
-        env['LC_ALL'] = 'C'
-        out = subprocess.Popen(
-            cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, env=env).communicate()[0]
         return out
 
     subst_list = {
@@ -31,24 +24,21 @@ def app_version():
     }
 
     if os.system("command -v git > /dev/null 2>&1") != 0:
-        subst_list
+        return subst_list
-    else:
-        if call(["git", "branch"], stderr=STDOUT,
-                stdout=open(os.devnull, 'w')) != 0:
-            subst_list
-        else:
-            # version
-            describe = minimal_env_cmd(["git", "describe", "--always"])
-            git_revision = describe.strip().decode('ascii')
-            # branch
-            branch = minimal_env_cmd(["git", "branch"])
-            git_branch = branch.strip().decode('ascii').replace('* ', '')
 
-            subst_list = {
+    if call(["git", "branch"], stderr=STDOUT, stdout=open(os.devnull, 'w')) != 0:
-                "version": __version__,
+        return subst_list
-                "branch": git_branch,
+
-                "commit": git_revision
+    describe = minimal_env_cmd(["git", "describe", "--tags", "--always"])
-            }
+    git_revision = describe.strip().decode('ascii')
+
+    branch = minimal_env_cmd(["git", "branch"])
+    git_branch = branch.strip().decode('ascii').replace('* ', '')
+
+    subst_list.update({
+        "branch": git_branch,
+        "commit": git_revision
+    })
 
     return subst_list
 

youtube/playlist.py

@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ def get_playlist_page():
 
     video_count = yt_data_extract.deep_get(info, 'metadata', 'video_count')
     if video_count is None:
-        video_count = 40
+        video_count = 1000
 
     return flask.render_template(
         'playlist.html',

youtube/static/channel.css

@@ -256,7 +256,8 @@ hr {
     padding-top: 6px;
     text-align: center;
     white-space: nowrap;
-    border: none;
+    border: 1px solid;
+    border-color: var(--button-border);
     border-radius: 0.2rem;
 }
 

youtube/static/dark_theme.css

@@ -1,20 +1,22 @@
 :root {
-    --background:           #212121;
+    --background:           #121113;
     --text:                 #FFFFFF;
-    --secondary-hover:      #73828c;
+    --secondary-hover:      #222222;
-    --secondary-focus:      #303030;
+    --secondary-focus:      #121113;
-    --secondary-inverse:    #FFF;
+    --secondary-inverse:    #FFFFFF;
     --primary-background:   #242424;
-    --secondary-background: #424242;
+    --secondary-background: #222222;
-    --thumb-background:     #757575;
+    --thumb-background:     #222222;
     --link:                 #00B0FF;
     --link-visited:         #40C4FF;
-    --border-bg:            #FFFFFF;
+    --border-bg:            #222222;
-    --buttom:               #dcdcdb;
+    --border-bg-settings:   #000000;
-    --buttom-text:          #415462;
+    --border-bg-license:    #000000;
-    --button-border:        #91918c;
+    --buttom:               #121113;
-    --buttom-hover:         #BBB;
+    --buttom-text:          #FFFFFF;
-    --search-text:          #FFF;
+    --button-border:        #222222;
-    --time-background:      #212121;
+    --buttom-hover:         #222222;
-    --time-text:            #FFF;
+    --search-text:          #FFFFFF;
+    --time-background:      #121113;
+    --time-text:            #FFFFFF;
 }

youtube/static/gray_theme.css

@@ -1,19 +1,21 @@
 :root {
-    --background:            #2d3743;
+    --background:            #2D3743;
     --text:                  #FFFFFF;
-    --secondary-hover:       #73828c;
+    --secondary-hover:       #73828C;
     --secondary-focus:       rgba(115, 130, 140, 0.125);
     --secondary-inverse:     #FFFFFF;
-    --primary-background:    #2d3743;
+    --primary-background:    #2D3743;
     --secondary-background:  #102027;
     --thumb-background:      #35404D;
-    --link:                  #22aaff;
+    --link:                  #22AAFF;
-    --link-visited:          #7755ff;
+    --link-visited:          #7755FF;
     --border-bg:             #FFFFFF;
-    --buttom:                #DCDCDC;
+    --border-bg-settings:    #FFFFFF;
-    --buttom-text:           #415462;
+    --border-bg-license:     #FFFFFF;
-    --button-border:         #91918c;
+    --buttom:                #2D3743;
-    --buttom-hover:          #BBBBBB;
+    --buttom-text:           #FFFFFF;
+    --button-border:         #102027;
+    --buttom-hover:          #102027;
     --search-text:           #FFFFFF;
     --time-background:       #212121;
     --time-text:             #FFFFFF;

youtube/static/js/plyr-start.js

@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
     },
   });
 
-  const player = new Plyr(document.getElementById('js-video-player'), {
+  const playerOptions = {
     // Learning about autoplay permission https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Permissions-Policy/autoplay#syntax
     autoplay: autoplayActive,
     disableContextMenu: false,
@@ -117,5 +117,20 @@
     tooltips: {
       controls: true,
     },
+  }
+
+  const player = new Plyr(document.getElementById('js-video-player'), playerOptions);
+
+  // disable double click to fullscreen
+  // https://github.com/sampotts/plyr/issues/1370#issuecomment-528966795
+  player.eventListeners.forEach(function(eventListener) {
+    if(eventListener.type === 'dblclick') {
+        eventListener.element.removeEventListener(eventListener.type, eventListener.callback, eventListener.options);
+    }
   });
+
+  // Add .started property, true after the playback has been started
+  // Needed so controls won't be hidden before playback has started
+  player.started = false;
+  player.once('playing', function(){this.started = true});
 })();

youtube/static/license.css

@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ label[for=options-toggle-cbox] {
 
 .table td,.table th {
     padding: 10px 10px;
-    border: 1px solid var(--secondary-background);
+    border: 1px solid var(--border-bg-license);
     text-align: center;
 }
 

youtube/static/light_theme.css

@@ -10,9 +10,11 @@
     --link:                 #212121;
     --link-visited:         #808080;
     --border-bg:            #212121;
-    --buttom:               #DCDCDC;
+    --border-bg-settings:   #91918C;
+    --border-bg-license:    #91918C;
+    --buttom:               #FFFFFF;
     --buttom-text:          #212121;
-    --button-border:        #91918c;
+    --button-border:        #91918C;
     --buttom-hover:         #BBBBBB;
     --search-text:          #212121;
     --time-background:      #212121;

youtube/static/modules/plyr/custom_plyr.css

@@ -37,3 +37,41 @@ e.g. Firefox playback speed options */
     max-height: 320px;
     overflow-y: auto;
 }
+
+/*
+* Custom styles similar to youtube
+*/
+.plyr__controls {
+    display: flex;
+    justify-content: center;
+}
+
+.plyr__progress__container {
+    position: absolute;
+    bottom: 0;
+    width: 100%;
+    margin-bottom: -10px;
+}
+
+.plyr__controls .plyr__controls__item:first-child {
+    margin-left: 0;
+    margin-right: 0;
+    z-index: 5;
+}
+
+.plyr__controls .plyr__controls__item.plyr__volume {
+    margin-left: auto;
+}
+
+.plyr__controls .plyr__controls__item.plyr__progress__container {
+    padding-left: 10px;
+    padding-right: 10px;
+}
+
+.plyr__progress input[type="range"] {
+    margin-bottom: 50px;
+}
+
+/*
+* End custom styles
+*/

youtube/static/settings.css

@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ label[for=options-toggle-cbox] {
 }
 
 .settings-form > h2 {
-    border-bottom: 2px solid var(--border-bg);
+    border-bottom: 2px solid var(--border-bg-settings);
     padding-bottom: 0.5rem;
 }
 

youtube/util.py

@@ -318,10 +318,11 @@ def fetch_url(url, headers=(), timeout=15, report_text=None, data=None,
         cleanup_func(response)  # release_connection for urllib3
         content = decode_content(
             content,
-            response.getheader('Content-Encoding', default='identity'))
+            response.headers.get('Content-Encoding', default='identity'))
 
         if (settings.debugging_save_responses
-                and debug_name is not None and content):
+                and debug_name is not None
+                and content):
             save_dir = os.path.join(settings.data_dir, 'debug')
             if not os.path.exists(save_dir):
                 os.makedirs(save_dir)
@@ -394,23 +395,22 @@ def head(url, use_tor=False, report_text=None, max_redirects=10):
             round(time.monotonic() - start_time, 3))
     return response
 
-
+mobile_user_agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.0; Redmi Note 4 Build/NRD90M) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/69.0.3497.100 Mobile Safari/537.36'
-mobile_user_agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 14) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.6312.80 Mobile Safari/537.36'
 mobile_ua = (('User-Agent', mobile_user_agent),)
-desktop_user_agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:124.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/124.0'
+desktop_user_agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0'
 desktop_ua = (('User-Agent', desktop_user_agent),)
 json_header = (('Content-Type', 'application/json'),)
 desktop_xhr_headers = (
     ('Accept', '*/*'),
     ('Accept-Language', 'en-US,en;q=0.5'),
     ('X-YouTube-Client-Name', '1'),
-    ('X-YouTube-Client-Version', '2.20240327.00.00'),
+    ('X-YouTube-Client-Version', '2.20240304.00.00'),
 ) + desktop_ua
 mobile_xhr_headers = (
     ('Accept', '*/*'),
     ('Accept-Language', 'en-US,en;q=0.5'),
-    ('X-YouTube-Client-Name', '1'),
+    ('X-YouTube-Client-Name', '2'),
-    ('X-YouTube-Client-Version', '2.20240328.08.00'),
+    ('X-YouTube-Client-Version', '2.20240304.08.00'),
 ) + mobile_ua
 
 
@@ -674,12 +674,12 @@ INNERTUBE_CLIENTS = {
                 'hl': 'en',
                 'gl': 'US',
                 'clientName': 'ANDROID',
-                'clientVersion': '19.12.36',
+                'clientVersion': '19.09.36',
                 'osName': 'Android',
-                'osVersion': '14',
+                'osVersion': '12',
-                'androidSdkVersion': 34,
+                'androidSdkVersion': 31,
                 'platform': 'MOBILE',
-                'userAgent': 'com.google.android.youtube/19.12.36 (Linux; U; Android 14; US) gzip'
+                'userAgent': 'com.google.android.youtube/19.09.36 (Linux; U; Android 12; US) gzip'
             },
             # https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/575#issuecomment-887739287
             #'thirdParty': {
@@ -690,6 +690,45 @@ INNERTUBE_CLIENTS = {
         'REQUIRE_JS_PLAYER': False,
     },
 
+    'android-test-suite': {
+        'INNERTUBE_API_KEY': 'AIzaSyA8eiZmM1FaDVjRy-df2KTyQ_vz_yYM39w',
+        'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT': {
+            'client': {
+                'hl': 'en',
+                'gl': 'US',
+                'clientName': 'ANDROID_TESTSUITE',
+                'clientVersion': '1.9',
+                'osName': 'Android',
+                'osVersion': '12',
+                'androidSdkVersion': 31,
+                'platform': 'MOBILE',
+                'userAgent': 'com.google.android.youtube/1.9 (Linux; U; Android 12; US) gzip'
+            },
+            # https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/575#issuecomment-887739287
+            #'thirdParty': {
+            #    'embedUrl': 'https://google.com',  # Can be any valid URL
+            #}
+        },
+        'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT_CLIENT_NAME': 3,
+        'REQUIRE_JS_PLAYER': False,
+    },
+
+    'ios': {
+        'INNERTUBE_API_KEY': 'AIzaSyB-63vPrdThhKuerbB2N_l7Kwwcxj6yUAc',
+        'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT': {
+            'client': {
+                'hl': 'en',
+                'gl': 'US',
+                'clientName': 'IOS',
+                'clientVersion': '19.09.3',
+                'deviceModel': 'iPhone14,3',
+                'userAgent': 'com.google.ios.youtube/19.09.3 (iPhone14,3; U; CPU iOS 15_6 like Mac OS X)'
+            }
+        },
+        'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT_CLIENT_NAME': 5,
+        'REQUIRE_JS_PLAYER': False
+    },
+
     # This client can access age restricted videos (unless the uploader has disabled the 'allow embedding' option)
     # See: https://github.com/zerodytrash/YouTube-Internal-Clients
     'tv_embedded': {
@@ -717,14 +756,62 @@ INNERTUBE_CLIENTS = {
         'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT': {
             'client': {
                 'clientName': 'WEB',
-                'clientVersion': '2.20240327.00.00',
+                'clientVersion': '2.20220801.00.00',
                 'userAgent': desktop_user_agent,
             }
         },
         'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT_CLIENT_NAME': 1
     },
+    'android_vr': {
+        'INNERTUBE_API_KEY': 'AIzaSyA8eiZmM1FaDVjRy-df2KTyQ_vz_yYM39w',
+        'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT': {
+            'client': {
+                'clientName': 'ANDROID_VR',
+                'clientVersion': '1.60.19',
+                'deviceMake': 'Oculus',
+                'deviceModel': 'Quest 3',
+                'androidSdkVersion': 32,
+                'userAgent': 'com.google.android.apps.youtube.vr.oculus/1.60.19 (Linux; U; Android 12L; eureka-user Build/SQ3A.220605.009.A1) gzip',
+                'osName': 'Android',
+                'osVersion': '12L',
+            },
+        },
+        'INNERTUBE_CONTEXT_CLIENT_NAME': 28,
+        'REQUIRE_JS_PLAYER': False,
+    },
 }
 
+def get_visitor_data():
+    visitor_data = None
+    visitor_data_cache = os.path.join(settings.data_dir, 'visitorData.txt')
+    if not os.path.exists(settings.data_dir):
+        os.makedirs(settings.data_dir)
+    if os.path.isfile(visitor_data_cache):
+        with open(visitor_data_cache, 'r') as file:
+            print('Getting visitor_data from cache')
+            visitor_data = file.read()
+        max_age = 12*3600
+        file_age = time.time() - os.path.getmtime(visitor_data_cache)
+        if file_age > max_age:
+            print('visitor_data cache is too old. Removing file...')
+            os.remove(visitor_data_cache)
+        return visitor_data
+
+    print('Fetching youtube homepage to get visitor_data')
+    yt_homepage = 'https://www.youtube.com'
+    yt_resp = fetch_url(yt_homepage, headers={'User-Agent': mobile_user_agent}, report_text='Getting youtube homepage')
+    visitor_data_re = r'''"visitorData":\s*?"(.+?)"'''
+    visitor_data_match = re.search(visitor_data_re, yt_resp.decode())
+    if visitor_data_match:
+        visitor_data = visitor_data_match.group(1)
+        print(f'Got visitor_data: {len(visitor_data)}')
+        with open(visitor_data_cache, 'w') as file:
+            print('Saving visitor_data cache...')
+            file.write(visitor_data)
+        return visitor_data
+    else:
+        print('Unable to get visitor_data value')
+    return visitor_data
 
 def call_youtube_api(client, api, data):
     client_params = INNERTUBE_CLIENTS[client]
@@ -732,12 +819,17 @@ def call_youtube_api(client, api, data):
     key = client_params['INNERTUBE_API_KEY']
     host = client_params.get('INNERTUBE_HOST') or 'www.youtube.com'
     user_agent = context['client'].get('userAgent') or mobile_user_agent
+    visitor_data = get_visitor_data()
 
     url = 'https://' + host + '/youtubei/v1/' + api + '?key=' + key
+    if visitor_data:
+        context['client'].update({'visitorData': visitor_data})
     data['context'] = context
 
     data = json.dumps(data)
     headers = (('Content-Type', 'application/json'),('User-Agent', user_agent))
+    if visitor_data:
+        headers = ( *headers, ('X-Goog-Visitor-Id', visitor_data ))
     response = fetch_url(
         url, data=data, headers=headers,
         debug_name='youtubei_' + api + '_' + client,

youtube/version.py

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
-__version__ = '0.2.11'
+__version__ = 'v0.3.0'

youtube/watch.py

@@ -343,7 +343,6 @@ def _add_to_error(info, key, additional_message):
 def fetch_player_response(client, video_id):
     return util.call_youtube_api(client, 'player', {
         'videoId': video_id,
-        'params': 'CgIQBg',
     })
 
 
@@ -372,17 +371,7 @@ def extract_info(video_id, use_invidious, playlist_id=None, index=None):
     tasks = (
         # Get video metadata from here
         gevent.spawn(fetch_watch_page_info, video_id, playlist_id, index),
-
+        gevent.spawn(fetch_player_response, 'android_vr', video_id)
-        # Get video URLs by spoofing as android client because its urls don't
-        # require decryption
-        # The URLs returned with WEB for videos requiring decryption
-        # couldn't be decrypted with the base.js from the web page for some
-        # reason
-        # https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/574#issuecomment-887171136
-
-        # Update 4/26/23, these URLs will randomly start returning 403
-        # mid-playback and I'm not sure why
-        gevent.spawn(fetch_player_response, 'android', video_id)
     )
     gevent.joinall(tasks)
     util.check_gevent_exceptions(*tasks)
@@ -660,12 +649,6 @@ def get_watch_page(video_id=None):
             '/videoplayback',
             '/videoplayback/name/' + filename)
 
-    if settings.gather_googlevideo_domains:
-        with open(os.path.join(settings.data_dir, 'googlevideo-domains.txt'), 'a+', encoding='utf-8') as f:
-            url = info['formats'][0]['url']
-            subdomain = url[0:url.find(".googlevideo.com")]
-            f.write(subdomain + "\n")
-
     download_formats = []
 
     for format in (info['formats'] + info['hls_formats']):