Direct video link (?raw=1) doesn't work for all video

[poka-IT]

For some video, direct link doesn't work.

For instance, this work: https://yewtu.be/embed/ZoeFQsQ6300?raw=1
But this doesn't work: https://yewtu.be/embed/nNKYkJn2Lts?raw=1

Do you know the reason ?

[unixfox]

Probably because you are loading a video from another IP address, usually the music videos are encrypted by Youtube and are tied to the IP address. If you try loading it from another IP address you get a 403 error.

If you need to download a video you are better off using the latest_version endpoint like this: https://yewtu.be/latest_version?id=nNKYkJn2Lts&itag=18&local=true

BUT don't try to circumvent the disability to download a video on an invidious instance, if the download button is disabled it's for good purpose. Use another instance that allow download if you need that.

By the way if it's only music, just the itag for the music. You can find it in the invidious code or with listen only then look at the requests done by your browser.

[poka-IT]

Thank you for this explanations, and yes it's just for music.

Your first answer seems to solve the problem for the url I exposed as an example, but not for all of them, for instance:
https://yewtu.be/embed/RLR4JQrHpY0?listen=1&raw=1&local=true

I found the itags list: https://gist.github.com/sidneys/7095afe4da4ae58694d128b1034e01e2
This is not for download but only for streaming from a Flutter app.

So it seems to work as expected with this kind of request:
https://yewtu.be/latest_version?id=09cZRYupO4s&itag=140&local=true&listen=1

Now I have TLS untrusted certificate issues from my app, but this is a complete differente problem.
Thank you for your help.

[unixfox]

In order to preserve some bandwidth for the instance, please use local=true if without local=true it doesn't work.

[poka-IT]

Yes, local=true is present on my latest exemples.