Can we add an extra parameter in extractor-args to skip the v1/next request? If we only need to download the video and don't care about the extra data, this request is redundant.
E:\>yt-dlp.exe -vU --extractor-args "youtube:player-client=tv;player_skip=webpage,configs;skip=hls,dash;visitor_data=Cgt4dkFVOE9qZEFoOCi2tLm_BjIKCgJISxIEGgAgLg%3D%3D" --print-traffic -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD3LhA5y_c0
[debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', '--extractor-args', 'youtube:player-client=tv;player_skip=webpage,configs;skip=hls,dash;visitor_data=Cgt4dkFVOE9qZEFoOCi2tLm_BjIKCgJISxIEGgAgLg%3D%3D', '--print-traffic', '-F', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD3LhA5y_c0']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp936, fs utf-8, pref cp936, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
[debug] yt-dlp version stable@2025.03.31 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp [5e457af57] (win_exe)
[debug] Python 3.10.11 (CPython AMD64 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0 (OpenSSL 1.1.1t 7 Feb 2023)
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.22.0, brotli-1.1.0, certifi-2025.01.31, curl_cffi-0.10.0, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.32.3, sqlite3-3.40.1, urllib3-2.3.0, websockets-15.0.1
[debug] Proxy map: {'http': 'http://127.0.0.1:7890', 'https': 'http://127.0.0.1:7890', 'ftp': 'http://127.0.0.1:7890'}
[debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets, curl_cffi
[debug] Plugin directories: none
[debug] Loaded 1850 extractors
[debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest
director: Handler preferences for this request: urllib=0, requests=100, websockets=0, curl_cffi=-100
director: Checking if "requests" supports this request.
director: Sending request via "requests"
requests: Starting new HTTPS connection (1): api.github.com:443
send: b'CONNECT api.github.com:443 HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n'
send: b'GET /repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: api.github.com\r\nConnection: keep-alive\r\nUser-Agent: yt-dlp\r\nAccept: application/vnd.github+json\r\nAccept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5\r\nSec-Fetch-Mode: navigate\r\nX-Github-Api-Version: 2022-11-28\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br\r\n\r\n'
reply: 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n'
header: Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2025 09:57:44 GMT
header: Cache-Control: public, max-age=60, s-maxage=60
header: Vary: Accept,Accept-Encoding, Accept, X-Requested-With
header: ETag: "34b28b80f0cb306e28f996a184a9ed51b79ae5c19c44b3237d5f615ff7ebe23e"
header: Last-Modified: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 22:03:20 GMT
header: x-github-api-version-selected: 2022-11-28
header: Access-Control-Expose-Headers: ETag, Link, Location, Retry-After, X-GitHub-OTP, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Used, X-RateLimit-Resource, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-OAuth-Scopes, X-Accepted-OAuth-Scopes, X-Poll-Interval, X-GitHub-Media-Type, X-GitHub-SSO, X-GitHub-Request-Id, Deprecation, Sunset
header: Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
header: Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload
header: X-Frame-Options: deny
header: X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
header: X-XSS-Protection: 0
header: Referrer-Policy: origin-when-cross-origin, strict-origin-when-cross-origin
header: Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'none'
header: Server: github.com
header: Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
header: X-GitHub-Media-Type: github.v3; format=json
header: Content-Encoding: gzip
header: Accept-Ranges: bytes
header: X-RateLimit-Limit: 60
header: X-RateLimit-Remaining: 48
header: X-RateLimit-Reset: 1743674923
header: X-RateLimit-Resource: core
header: X-RateLimit-Used: 12
header: Content-Length: 3286
header: X-GitHub-Request-Id: C209:289B00:11E7BD2:15539FA:67EE5BA3
Latest version: stable@2025.03.31 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp
yt-dlp is up to date (stable@2025.03.31 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp)
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD3LhA5y_c0
[youtube] ZD3LhA5y_c0: Downloading iframe API JS
director: Handler preferences for this request: urllib=0, requests=100, websockets=0, curl_cffi=-100
director: Checking if "requests" supports this request.
director: Sending request via "requests"
requests: Starting new HTTPS connection (1): www.youtube.com:443
send: b'CONNECT www.youtube.com:443 HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n'
send: b'GET /iframe_api HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: www.youtube.com\r\nConnection: keep-alive\r\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/97.0.4692.20 Safari/537.36\r\nAccept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8\r\nAccept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5\r\nSec-Fetch-Mode: navigate\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br\r\nCookie: PREF=hl=en&tz=UTC; SOCS=CAI\r\n\r\n'
reply: 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n'
header: Content-Type: text/javascript; charset=utf-8
header: X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
header: Expires: Thu, 03 Apr 2025 09:57:56 GMT
header: Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2025 09:57:56 GMT
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header: X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
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header: Vary: Sec-CH-UA-Arch, Sec-CH-UA-Bitness, Sec-CH-UA-Full-Version, Sec-CH-UA-Full-Version-List, Sec-CH-UA-Model, Sec-CH-UA-WoW64, Sec-CH-UA-Form-Factors, Sec-CH-UA-Platform, Sec-CH-UA-Platform-Version
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header: Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy: cross-origin
header: Content-Security-Policy: require-trusted-types-for 'script'
header: Permissions-Policy: ch-ua-arch=*, ch-ua-bitness=*, ch-ua-full-version=*, ch-ua-full-version-list=*, ch-ua-model=*, ch-ua-wow64=*, ch-ua-form-factors=*, ch-ua-platform=*, ch-ua-platform-version=*
header: Report-To: {"group":"youtube_main","max_age":2592000,"endpoints":[{"url":"https://csp.withgoogle.com/csp/report-to/youtube_main"}]}
header: P3P: CP="This is not a P3P policy! See http://support.google.com/accounts/answer/151657?hl=en for more info."
header: Content-Encoding: br
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header: X-XSS-Protection: 0
header: Set-Cookie: YSC=feLz8pIBF6I; Domain=.youtube.com; Path=/; Secure; HttpOnly; SameSite=none; Partitioned
header: Set-Cookie: __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN=COzzoNCc2r_5SxDug93uzLuMAxjug93uzLuMAw%3D%3D; Domain=youtube.com; Expires=Tue, 30-Sep-2025 09:57:56 GMT; Path=/; Secure; HttpOnly; SameSite=none; Partitioned
header: Set-Cookie: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=9ZVwWi5E9zg; Domain=.youtube.com; Expires=Tue, 30-Sep-2025 09:57:56 GMT; Path=/; Secure; HttpOnly; SameSite=none; Partitioned
header: Set-Cookie: VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA=CgJISxIEGgAgIQ%3D%3D; Domain=.youtube.com; Expires=Tue, 30-Sep-2025 09:57:56 GMT; Path=/; Secure; HttpOnly; SameSite=none; Partitioned
header: Alt-Svc: h3=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-29=":443"; ma=2592000
[youtube] ZD3LhA5y_c0: Downloading player e63b9241-main
director: Handler preferences for this request: urllib=0, requests=100, websockets=0, curl_cffi=-100
director: Checking if "requests" supports this request.
director: Sending request via "requests"
send: b'GET /s/player/e63b9241/player_ias.vflset/en_US/base.js HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: www.youtube.com\r\nConnection: keep-alive\r\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/97.0.4692.20 Safari/537.36\r\nAccept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8\r\nAccept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5\r\nSec-Fetch-Mode: navigate\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br\r\nCookie: PREF=hl=en&tz=UTC; SOCS=CAI; VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=9ZVwWi5E9zg; VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA=CgJISxIEGgAgIQ%3D%3D; YSC=feLz8pIBF6I; __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN=COzzoNCc2r_5SxDug93uzLuMAxjug93uzLuMAw%3D%3D\r\n\r\n'
reply: 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n'
header: Accept-Ranges: bytes
header: Content-Encoding: br
header: Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy: cross-origin
header: Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy-Report-Only: same-origin; report-to="youtube"
header: Report-To: {"group":"youtube","max_age":2592000,"endpoints":[{"url":"https://csp.withgoogle.com/csp/report-to/youtube"}]}
header: Content-Length: 662547
header: X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
header: Server: sffe
header: X-XSS-Protection: 0
header: Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 07:21:32 GMT
header: Expires: Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:21:32 GMT
header: Cache-Control: public, max-age=31536000
header: Last-Modified: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 04:33:54 GMT
header: Content-Type: text/javascript
header: Vary: Accept-Encoding, Origin
header: Age: 182184
header: Alt-Svc: h3=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-29=":443"; ma=2592000
[youtube] ZD3LhA5y_c0: Downloading tv player API JSON
director: Handler preferences for this request: urllib=0, requests=100, websockets=0, curl_cffi=-100
director: Checking if "requests" supports this request.
director: Sending request via "requests"
send: b'POST /youtubei/v1/player?prettyPrint=false HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: www.youtube.com\r\nConnection: keep-alive\r\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (ChromiumStylePlatform) Cobalt/Version\r\nAccept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8\r\nAccept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5\r\nSec-Fetch-Mode: navigate\r\nContent-Type: application/json\r\nX-Youtube-Client-Name: 7\r\nX-Youtube-Client-Version: 7.20250312.16.00\r\nOrigin: https://www.youtube.com\r\nX-Goog-Visitor-Id: Cgt4dkFVOE9qZEFoOCi2tLm_BjIKCgJISxIEGgAgLg%3D%3D\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br\r\nCookie: PREF=hl=en&tz=UTC; SOCS=CAI; VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=9ZVwWi5E9zg; VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA=CgJISxIEGgAgIQ%3D%3D; YSC=feLz8pIBF6I; __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN=COzzoNCc2r_5SxDug93uzLuMAxjug93uzLuMAw%3D%3D\r\nContent-Length: 396\r\n\r\n'
send: b'{"context": {"client": {"clientName": "TVHTML5", "clientVersion": "7.20250312.16.00", "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (ChromiumStylePlatform) Cobalt/Version", "hl": "en", "timeZone": "UTC", "utcOffsetMinutes": 0}}, "videoId": "ZD3LhA5y_c0", "playbackContext": {"contentPlaybackContext": {"html5Preference": "HTML5_PREF_WANTS", "signatureTimestamp": 20179}}, "contentCheckOk": true, "racyCheckOk": true}'
reply: 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n'
header: Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
header: Vary: Origin
header: Vary: X-Origin
header: Vary: Referer
header: Content-Encoding: br
header: Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2025 09:57:56 GMT
header: Server: scaffolding on HTTPServer2
header: Content-Length: 9784
header: X-XSS-Protection: 0
header: X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
header: X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
header: Alt-Svc: h3=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-29=":443"; ma=2592000
[debug] [youtube] Extracting signature function e63b9241-main-111
[debug] Loading youtube-sigfuncs.e63b9241-main-111 from cache
[debug] Loading youtube-nsig.e63b9241-main from cache
[debug] [youtube] Decrypted nsig 6e_PRLA8STtrgn => S5Vt0T1GXOpraA
[debug] [youtube] Decrypted nsig kPj7NWK2HDGLpU => OlOCHHdf7tLM5w
[debug] [youtube] Extracting signature function e63b9241-main-107
[debug] Loading youtube-sigfuncs.e63b9241-main-107 from cache
[youtube] ZD3LhA5y_c0: Downloading initial data API JSON
director: Handler preferences for this request: urllib=0, requests=100, websockets=0, curl_cffi=-100
director: Checking if "requests" supports this request.
director: Sending request via "requests"
send: b'POST /youtubei/v1/next?prettyPrint=false HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: www.youtube.com\r\nConnection: keep-alive\r\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/97.0.4692.20 Safari/537.36\r\nAccept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8\r\nAccept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5\r\nSec-Fetch-Mode: navigate\r\nContent-Type: application/json\r\nX-Youtube-Client-Name: 1\r\nX-Youtube-Client-Version: 2.20250312.04.00\r\nOrigin: https://www.youtube.com\r\nX-Goog-Visitor-Id: Cgt4dkFVOE9qZEFoOCi2tLm_BjIKCgJISxIEGgAgLg%3D%3D\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br\r\nCookie: PREF=hl=en&tz=UTC; SOCS=CAI; VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=9ZVwWi5E9zg; VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA=CgJISxIEGgAgIQ%3D%3D; YSC=feLz8pIBF6I; __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN=COzzoNCc2r_5SxDug93uzLuMAxjug93uzLuMAw%3D%3D\r\nContent-Length: 208\r\n\r\n'
send: b'{"context": {"client": {"clientName": "WEB", "clientVersion": "2.20250312.04.00", "hl": "en", "timeZone": "UTC", "utcOffsetMinutes": 0}}, "videoId": "ZD3LhA5y_c0", "contentCheckOk": true, "racyCheckOk": true}'
reply: 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n'
header: Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
header: Vary: Origin
header: Vary: X-Origin
header: Vary: Referer
header: Content-Encoding: br
header: Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2025 09:57:58 GMT
header: Server: scaffolding on HTTPServer2
header: Content-Length: 39816
header: X-XSS-Protection: 0
header: X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
header: X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
header: Alt-Svc: h3=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-29=":443"; ma=2592000
WARNING: Extractor failed to obtain "title". Creating a generic title instead
[debug] Sort order given by extractor: quality, res, fps, hdr:12, source, vcodec, channels, acodec, lang, proto
[debug] Formats sorted by: hasvid, ie_pref, quality, res, fps, hdr:12(7), source, vcodec, channels, acodec, lang, proto, size, br, asr, vext, aext, hasaud, id
[info] Available formats for ZD3LhA5y_c0:
ID EXT RESOLUTION FPS CH │ FILESIZE TBR PROTO │ VCODEC VBR ACODEC ABR ASR MORE INFO
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
sb2 mhtml 48x27 0 │ mhtml │ images storyboard
sb1 mhtml 80x45 1 │ mhtml │ images storyboard
sb0 mhtml 160x90 1 │ mhtml │ images storyboard
249 webm audio only 2 │ 1.64MiB 52k https │ audio only opus 52k 48k low, TV, webm_dash
250 webm audio only 2 │ 2.17MiB 69k https │ audio only opus 69k 48k low, TV, webm_dash
140 m4a audio only 2 │ 4.07MiB 129k https │ audio only mp4a.40.2 129k 44k medium, TV, m4a_dash
251 webm audio only 2 │ 4.24MiB 135k https │ audio only opus 135k 48k medium, TV, webm_dash
160 mp4 256x144 30 │ 383.90KiB 12k https │ avc1.4d400c 12k video only 144p, TV, mp4_dash
278 webm 256x144 30 │ 895.85KiB 28k https │ vp9 28k video only 144p, TV, webm_dash
394 mp4 256x144 30 │ 544.98KiB 17k https │ av01.0.00M.08 17k video only 144p, TV, mp4_dash
133 mp4 426x240 30 │ 506.98KiB 16k https │ avc1.4d4015 16k video only 240p, TV, mp4_dash
242 webm 426x240 30 │ 950.97KiB 30k https │ vp9 30k video only 240p, TV, webm_dash
395 mp4 426x240 30 │ 614.27KiB 19k https │ av01.0.00M.08 19k video only 240p, TV, mp4_dash
134 mp4 640x360 30 │ 725.23KiB 23k https │ avc1.4d401e 23k video only 360p, TV, mp4_dash
18 mp4 640x360 30 2 │ 5.00MiB 159k https │ avc1.42001E mp4a.40.2 44k 360p, TV
243 webm 640x360 30 │ 1.16MiB 37k https │ vp9 37k video only 360p, TV, webm_dash
396 mp4 640x360 30 │ 758.26KiB 24k https │ av01.0.01M.08 24k video only 360p, TV, mp4_dash
135 mp4 854x480 30 │ 932.17KiB 29k https │ avc1.4d401f 29k video only 480p, TV, mp4_dash
244 webm 854x480 30 │ 1.41MiB 45k https │ vp9 45k video only 480p, TV, webm_dash
397 mp4 854x480 30 │ 1.03MiB 33k https │ av01.0.04M.08 33k video only 480p, TV, mp4_dash
136 mp4 1280x720 30 │ 1.36MiB 43k https │ avc1.4d401f 43k video only 720p, TV, mp4_dash
247 webm 1280x720 30 │ 1.96MiB 62k https │ vp9 62k video only 720p, TV, webm_dash
398 mp4 1280x720 30 │ 2.21MiB 70k https │ av01.0.05M.08 70k video only 720p, TV, mp4_dash
137 mp4 1920x1080 30 │ 3.44MiB 109k https │ avc1.640028 109k video only 1080p, TV, mp4_dash
248 webm 1920x1080 30 │ 3.27MiB 104k https │ vp9 104k video only 1080p, TV, webm_dash
399 mp4 1920x1080 30 │ 3.85MiB 123k https │ av01.0.08M.08 123k video only 1080p, TV, mp4_dash
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Can we add an extra parameter in extractor-args to skip the v1/next request? If we only need to download the video and don't care about the extra data, this request is redundant.
Provide verbose output that clearly demonstrates the problem
yt-dlp -vU <your command line>)'verbose': TruetoYoutubeDLparams instead[debug] Command-line config) and insert it belowComplete Verbose Output