Adding back in youtube possibly?

[Pabsb]

• I'm asking a question regarding Sherlock
• My question is not a tech support question.

Question

For adding youtube back you would need to change the URL to https://www.youtube.com/user/{} to find the user search if I am not mistaken and it would return back if it exists or not.

[sdushantha]

We used to have YouTube but the issue is that there is now a popup which asks us to agree to their privacy policies before it actually gives us a response to whether or not the account exists. If we find a way to fix this, YouTube will be added back :)

[pistasjis]

Maybe Invidious could work?

[sdushantha]

@Odyssey346 I'm currently quite busy but feel free send a PR 👍

[P3nt3st3r123]

"YouTube Channel": {
    "errorType": "status_code",
    "request_method": "GET",
    "urlProbe": "https://invidious.slipfox.xyz/c/{}",
    "url": "https://youtube.com/c/{}/",
    "urlMain": "https://www.youtube.com/",
    "username_claimed": "electroboom",
    "username_unclaimed": "noonewouldeverusethis7"
  },
  "YouTube User": {
    "errorType": "status_code",
    "request_method": "GET",
    "urlProbe": "https://invidious.slipfox.xyz/user/{}",
    "url": "https://youtube.com/user/{}/",
    "urlMain": "https://www.youtube.com/",
    "username_claimed": "pewdiepie",
    "username_unclaimed": "noonewouldeverusethis7"
  },

[sdushantha]

@P3nt3st3r123 feel free to send a PR :)

[everlearner]

@sdushantha @P3nt3st3r123 Can I take this up?

[mrsofiane]

we can bypass thee google agreement by adding this cookie in headers :

"headers": {
      "Cookie": "CONSENT=YES+cb.20210418-17-p0.it+FX+917; "
    }, 

[P3nt3st3r123]

Actually! They using the cookies CONSENT=YES+ Backend of invidious
https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/blob/221d47212753620076b44d670acc7cfcaba6d151/src/invidious/yt_backend/connection_pool.cr

=> with CONSENT=YES+ in cookie, we might bypass "consent" popup

[sdushantha]

YouTube has been added :)

sherlock/sherlock/resources/data.json

Lines 2094 to 2114 in 5671077

	"Youtube Channel": {
	"errorCode": 404,
	"errorType": "status_code",
	"headers": {
	"Cookie": "CONSENT=YES+cb.20210418-17-p0.it+FX+917; "
	},
	"url": "https://www.youtube.com/c/{}",
	"urlMain": "https://www.youtube.com",
	"username_claimed": "mkbhd"
	},
	"Youtube User": {
	"errorCode": 404,
	"errorType": "status_code",
	"headers": {
	"Cookie": "CONSENT=YES+cb.20210418-17-p0.it+FX+917; "
	},
	"url": "https://www.youtube.com/user/{}",
	"urlMain": "https://www.youtube.com",
	"username_claimed": "pewdiepie",
	"username_unclaimed": "noonewouldeverusethis7"
	},