YouTube Support

[Zibbp]

YouTube VOD and live support

Video
Both VOD and live video is easy. Use streamlink for live streams and yt-dlp for vods.

Chat
Chat will be the problem. Yt-dlp supports vod chat downloading. Chat-downloader supports live chat downloading. The problem is emote support. TwitchDownloader which is used to render the chat does not support any YouTube functionality.

[lpuv]

Would it be possible to implement this without chat support/emote support for now?

[Zibbp]

Hi,
No plans to add any form of YouTube support in the near future. In the meantime you can manually download a YouTube stream/video using yt-dlp and manually import it into Ganymede in the UI or by using the API.

[CappiSteijns]

I'm attempting to import a few hundred YouTube videos into Ganymede, but I lack experience with APIs. Manual importing would be very time-consuming, so I'm eager to explore this approach.

To import the videos, I believe I need to use the /api/v1/vod endpoint.

ChatGPT generated the following script for me:

python

import requests

# API URL
url = 'http://192.168.68.61:4810/api/v1/vod'  # Replace with your actual API URL

# JWT token (replace with the token you received after logging in)
jwt_token = 'your_received_jwt_token'

# Headers with accept and content-type
headers = {
    'accept': 'application/json',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'Authorization': f'Bearer {jwt_token}'  # Include the JWT token in the headers
}

# Example payload; adjust as needed
payload = {
    "caption_path": "path/to/caption",
    "channel_id": "channel_id_example",
    "chat_path": "path/to/chat",
    "chat_video_path": "path/to/chat_video",
    "duration": 3600,  # Example duration in seconds
    "ext_id": "external_id_example",
    "id": "video_id_example",
    "info_path": "path/to/info",
    "platform": "twitch",
    "processing": True,
    "resolution": "1920x1080",
    "streamed_at": "2024-10-01T00:00:00Z",  # Example timestamp
    "thumbnail_path": "path/to/thumbnail",
    "title": "Video Title",
    "type": "archive",
    "video_path": "path/to/video",
    "views": 100,  # Example view count
    "web_thumbnail_path": "path/to/web_thumbnail"
}

try:
    # Send the POST request
    response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=payload)
    
    # Check the status code
    if response.status_code == 201:  # 201 Created
        print("VOD successfully created!")
        print("Response data:", response.json())
    else:
        print(f"Error creating VOD: {response.status_code}")
        print("Error message:", response.json())
except Exception as e:
    print("Error during the request:", e)

However, when I run this script, I receive the error message {'message': 'Invalid access token'}.

I'm unsure how to obtain a valid token. I have configured the token in the API container as follows:

markdown

  - JWT_SECRET=a47586f791000d18f61c1e7ce27dbdbe92c5bfb75de856eaf2f5309260e5c0bd
  - JWT_REFRESH_SECRET=b523e954c89926e838d869c2a641a7eafa4711155756b003f1b29fa20fa8a280

I'm starting to feel that my lack of API knowledge may make this task unrealistic. I understand that importing YouTube videos may be outside the scope of this project. If you think this is not a viable option for someone without experience, please let me know. Otherwise, I would greatly appreciate any tips on how to successfully import videos into Ganymede.

Thank you ! :)

[Zibbp]

Authentication only supports cookies so you'll either need to use the cookie in your browser or perform an auth request in your python script.

POST http://ip:port/api/v1/auth/login

with the following body

{
  "username": "my_username",
  "password": "my_password"
}

Then you need to use the cookie returned by the response (access-token) for any future requests. Not sure how to do this in Python, but probably easy with requests.

For the request body for creating a VOD it looks like you have it mostly right. I would reference the http/vod.go CreateVodRequest struct for details of what is required.

It may also be useful to perform a GET /api/v1/vod to see what fields are populated for your current vods.

Let me know if there's anything else I can help with. I don't like to advertise the API much as I tend to change it between versions.

Related, are you downloading chats for your YouTube vods or just the video/stream?