_YT_INITIAL_BOUNDARY_RE = r'(?:var\s+meta|</script|\n)'
def _generate_sapisidhash_header(self):
- sapisid_cookie = self._get_cookies('https://www.youtube.com').get('SAPISID')
+ # Sometimes SAPISID cookie isn't present but __Secure-3PAPISID is.
+ # See: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/393
+ yt_cookies = self._get_cookies('https://www.youtube.com')
+ sapisid_cookie = dict_get(
+ yt_cookies, ('__Secure-3PAPISID', 'SAPISID'))
if sapisid_cookie is None:
return
time_now = round(time.time())
- sapisidhash = hashlib.sha1((str(time_now) + " " + sapisid_cookie.value + " " + "https://www.youtube.com").encode("utf-8")).hexdigest()
- return "SAPISIDHASH %s_%s" % (time_now, sapisidhash)
+ # SAPISID cookie is required if not already present
+ if not yt_cookies.get('SAPISID'):
+ self._set_cookie(
+ '.youtube.com', 'SAPISID', sapisid_cookie.value, secure=True, expire_time=time_now + 3600)
+ # SAPISIDHASH algorithm from https://stackoverflow.com/a/32065323
+ sapisidhash = hashlib.sha1(
+ f'{time_now} {sapisid_cookie.value} https://www.youtube.com'.encode('utf-8')).hexdigest()
+ return f'SAPISIDHASH {time_now}_{sapisidhash}'
def _call_api(self, ep, query, video_id, fatal=True, headers=None,
note='Downloading API JSON', errnote='Unable to download API page',