IDM cannot Download Youtube Videos

[Naqeeb]

Whenever i try to download a video with IDM. it downloads a web page instead of a video.

Open your IDM.
select download from menu bar.
select option from a drop list.
A popup box will open a look like these:

Select General and click on edit button from the "Customize IDm Download panels in browsers." it shown in the end of the box.

there will be another popup box opened in front of your screen.
You can see and exception box there simply select restricted domain (youtube.com) from list.

And Done. Hope this helps you guys. thank you so much for your time.

 

[DardiM]

Thanks for you post

About Youtube :
FOR INFORMATION PURPOSE ONLY

Some videos from YouTube are protected.

- The urls to download a video have several parameters, one of them can be s which content is a encoded Key

- All URLs for normal and adaptive videos are on the source page of YouTube video link
when written this way : www.youtube.com/watch?v=[ID]

1) Getting videos by Programming :

- To be able to download them, the signature has to be "decoded"

"s= [encoded Key].... " => "signature=[decoded Key] ...."

It uses for example (link can be found on the source page) :

=> hxxps://s.ytimg.com/yts/jsbin/player-fr_FR-vfllzCe0j/base.js

- They change very often this file / functions (names, methods) :

Example : from 17_08_2016 :

Here, signature = By(s) - found inside the base.js file - will change in few days

By=function(a){

a=a.split("");
Ay.cV(a,3);
Ay.LF(a,50);
Ay.xS(a,5);
Ay.LF(a,46);
Ay.LF(a,5);
Ay.cV(a,2);
return a.join("")​

};
Ay={

xS:function(a){

a.reverse()​

},
LF:function(a,b){

var c=a[0];
a[0]=a[b%a.length];
a=c​

},
cV:function(a,b){

a.splice(0,b)​

}​

};​

=> s3 w50 r w46 w5 s2

(splice 3 , swap 0 50, reverse, swap 0 46, swap 0 5 , splice 2 )

An example :

s= 32F32F75167E33997472D3D0A05FD5D4A0451AE7DDB.B25DB7C863DBBC4628B9936CD62FBF14FD5BE02E2C

splice 3:
32F32F75167E33997472D3D0A05FD5D4A0451AE7DDB.B25DB7C863DBBC4628B9936CD62FBF14FD5BE02E2C
32F75167E33997472D3D0A05FD5D4A0451AE7DDB.B25DB7C863DBBC4628B9936CD62FBF14FD5BE02E2C

swap 0 50:
32F75167E33997472D3D0A05FD5D4A0451AE7DDB.B25DB7C863DBBC4628B9936CD62FBF14FD5BE02E2C

reverse:
C2E20EB5DF41FBF26DC6399B8264CBBD368C7BD52B.BDD7EA1540A4D5DF50A0D3D27479933E76157F23

swap 0 46:
72E20EB5DF41FBF26DC6399B8264CBBD368C7BD52B.BDDCEA1540A4D5DF50A0D3D27479933E76157F23

swap 0 5:
E2E207B5DF41FBF26DC6399B8264CBBD368C7BD52B.BDDCEA1540A4D5DF50A0D3D27479933E76157F23

splice 2:
E2E207B5DF41FBF26DC6399B8264CBBD368C7BD52B.BDDCEA1540A4D5DF50A0D3D27479933E76157F23
E207B5DF41FBF26DC6399B8264CBBD368C7BD52B.BDDCEA1540A4D5DF50A0D3D27479933E76157F23

became:
signature=E207B5DF41FBF26DC6399B8264CBBD368C7BD52B.BDDCEA1540A4D5DF50A0D3D27479933E76157F23

Then a program / script can easily retrieve the webpage content of the video, look inside the structure and find :

- title,
- urls for different quality of videos
- itag info => itag structure => gives the size (1280x720, 640x360 etc)
- etc,...​

With the link I gave as "example" we can find :

Normals :

• 1280x720 - video/mp4; codecs="avc1.64001F, mp4a.40.2"
• 640x360 - video/webm; codecs="vp8.0, vorbis"
• 640x360 - video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42001E, mp4a.40.2"
• 320x180 - video/3gpp; codecs="mp4v.20.3, mp4a.40.2"
• 176x144 - video/3gpp; codecs="mp4v.20.3, mp4a.40.2"

Adaptives :

• 1920x1080 - video/mp4; codecs="avc1.640028"
• 1920x1080 - video/webm; codecs="vp9"
• 1280x720 - video/mp4; codecs="avc1.4d401f"
• 1280x720 - video/webm; codecs="vp9"
• 854x480 - video/mp4; codecs="avc1.4d401e"
• 854x480 - video/webm; codecs="vp9"
• 640x360 - video/mp4; codecs="avc1.4d401e"
• 640x360 - video/webm; codecs="vp9"
• 426x240 - video/mp4; codecs="avc1.4d4015"
• 426x240 - video/webm; codecs="vp9"
• 256x144 - video/mp4; codecs="avc1.4d400c"
• 256x144 - video/webm; codecs="vp9"
• - audio/mp4; codecs="mp4a.40.2"
• - audio/webm; codecs="vorbis"
• - audio/webm; codecs="opus"
• - audio/webm; codecs="opus"
• - audio/webm; codecs="opus"

2) Getting a video using the browser :

When playing a video on YouTube, the browser will make the job for you:

select the quality you want, from the video reader and then :

F12 to open advanced option,
- look at the network requests
- search for a video type in use (several occurence)
- copy paste the url
- delete the range parameter and its content

Example :
hxxps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG08ukJPtR8

hxxps://r8---sn-aigllnze.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?...
....
....
&ratebypass=yes&signature=E207B5DF41FBF26DC6399B8264CBBD368C7BD52B.BDDCEA1540A4D5DF50A0D3D27479933E76157F23&c=WEB&cver=1.20160817&range=486745-825314&rn=10&rbuf=27797

Delete range=486745-825314

=> you have now a temporarily working URL to download the whole file.​

(ONLY DOWNLOAD THE FILES YOU OWN )

Each time you refresh the main page, the structure of videos available is here, but parameters are in another order, and s Keys are different.

The main part I describe is interesting when a person want to make a program to directly have all videos available for one video link, and choose the one he prefers.
In the source code, there are also links for files with video and music separated ​

FOR INFORMATION PURPOSE ONLY

 

[caseyguy83]

Thanks for the info,

I usually use this free service KeepVid to download video from YouTube.

Works till now

 

[marco_pol]

I'm using those sites YouTube-Mp3.org - YouTube to Mp4 Convert YT Mp3 and Mp3Skull - Mp3 Download from YouTube Mp3Skulls.Tube nice features but in plus is the Youtube content on the sites.

 

[HarborFront]

You can use Video Download Professional extension in Chrome/FF Quantum

Video Downloader professional

It'll kickstart IDM/EagleGet DM once it deteceds the video if the IDM/EagleGet DM itself cannot download the video

 

[ItsReallyMe]

you can use clipconverter or savevid websites to download any video without installing any extension

 

[WinXPert]

Since my IDM already expired, I'm using this as a substitute. YTD

 

[juliejames]

My IDM also Expired...