Simple-YouTube-Age-Restriction-Bypass VS YouTube.js

4.youtube age bypass [your account might not need it, but on mine [european] google begged me to upload my ID to confirm my age to watch 18+ videos]

Simple YouTube Age Restriction Bypass - Allows you to bypass the age restriction if you're not logged in.

You can bypass logging in by using simple youtube age restriction bypass userscript to get the video to load in a browser. Then you manually grab the streaming links and add metadata or do it with browser extensions.

There are scripts you can use to bypass the required sign-in. I use this one.

it's just a script from github, got it from here. works alright.

BTW, I don't understand the workaround: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4552/files

Which was taken from here: https://github.com/LuanRT/YouTube.js/pull/624

Could anybody explain it to me?

There is a javascript library for interfacing with Youtube's API directly. It can also run on browsers. Using this, it's pretty easy to create a simple extension that replaces the default video player with your own. You can do a lot to improve your experience this way. I've made one which allows for higher quality streaming, pre-buffering video in the background, more subtitling options, etc... [2].

[1] https://github.com/LuanRT/YouTube.js

You can try Tod usw this youtubei.js

Love this approach. We can just bypass all the normal web scraping and get the structured data straight from the source. These APIs are usually no less stable than the ever changing HTML structure anyways.

Case study: YouTube.js

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31021611

https://github.com/LuanRT/YouTube.js