Support invidio.us directly without using the youtube exctractor

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• Single video: https://invidio.us/watch?v=5JRojRIA1ng
• Channel: https://invidio.us/channel/UCeZLO2VgbZHeDcongKzzfOw
• Playlist: https://invidio.us/playlist?list=PL63F0C78739B09958

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I would love if youtube-dl supported using invidio.us without using the youtube extractor.
Here is there API documentation.

[dstftw]

That's totally pointless.

[wjtk4444]

I'd like to suggest re-opening this issue as there is a valid reason for that to happen. Invidio.us provides a proxy-like functionality that allows user to watch a video without connecting directly to google servers.

Example - adding a &local=true argument to the url enables the proxy.
https://invidio.us/watch?v=LbjcaMAhJRQ
https://invidio.us/watch?v=LbjcaMAhJRQ&local=true

[arankaren]

Yes! the streams is available in https://invidio.us/api/v1/videos/qmOLtTGvsbM?fields=formatStreams,adaptiveFormats&pretty=1 for example.

Please reopen this issue. To extract the videos with DRM signature directly from invidio.us would be a second option. First directly from YT if it fails from Invidio.us and is fails invidio from youtube extractor sig.

[gnouts]

Hi, I'd like to understand...
In my case (and many others), my ip is often banned resulting in "Too many requests" error.
I tried using invidio.us url instead but I still get the error.

Would using invidio.us api instead of youtube extractor solve my case ?

If that's correct, it would not be "totally pointless", judging the number of issue with Error429 ...