No url_encoded_fmt_stream_map in iPhone response

[cujo30227]

When calling to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v, I get a html response including the url_encoded_fmt_stream_map on the iPad. Calling it on the iPhone gives me a similar response, but simply doesn't include the url_encoded_fmt_stream_map ...

Parsing the url_encoded_fmt_stream_map and decoding it subsequently works fine on the iPad, but I have nothing to work with on the iPhone..

[phihag]

youtube-dl should work the same no matter the platform. Can you post the entire output of it, including -v?

[cujo30227]

I think it is related to #1459. Yooutube serves a different page if it's a mobile device, the most important difference is that it doesn't include the ytplayer.config. I tried to change the user agent header, with no success. Did anyone got youtube-dl working on a mobile device?

[phihag]

youtube-dl does not change its behavior when it's running on a mobile device, and there's no way for YouTube to detect that you're running it on a mobile device. It's working perfectly fine on my android device (with SL4A) . Again, pleast post the output of youtube-dl when called with -v.

[phihag]

Oh, and it is most definitely not related to #1459, since that issue was 1. on Windows and 2. the reporter explicitly passed in a --user-agent option, which you should not do.

[cujo30227]

Allright, so after some more testing I figured out it had to do with the connection type. On WiFi, it works fine. On 3G, I get download errors. Since I have programmed parts of youtube-dl iOS, I could not get the comment code out. So I created a 3G connection with my laptop through a hotspot with a German cell phone (while sitting in the Netherlands). Here's the output I received (again, it worked without problems on WiFi). From the output, it seems obvious what is going on.. But can't we emulate a different location?

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-f', '18', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUT5rEU6pqM', '-v']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.09.24.2
[debug] Python version 2.7.2 - Darwin-12.5.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] DUT5rEU6pqM: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] DUT5rEU6pqM: Downloading video info webpage
ERROR: YouTube said: Unfortunately, this video is not available in Germany because it may contain music for which GEMA has not granted the respective music rights.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 334, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 103, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1325, in _real_extract
raise ExtractorError(u'YouTube said: %s' % video_info['reason'][0], expected=True)
ExtractorError: YouTube said: Unfortunately, this video is not available in Germany because it may contain music for which GEMA has not granted the respective music rights.

[phihag]

This is working fine. You can always use a proxy server (either as a VPN or by specifying the --proxy option) to move the location into another country.