siftlode/backend/app/youtube/search_scrape.py

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"""Zero-quota YouTube search via InnerTube (the website's own youtubei/v1/search endpoint).
Live YouTube search **without spending any YouTube Data API quota**: instead of search.list
(100 units per page) we POST to YouTube's internal InnerTube endpoint — the same one the website
calls and read the result list straight out of the JSON. The returned video ids then go
through the normal enrich path (videos.list, 1 unit / 50), exactly as the official search does,
so the search itself is effectively free and only the (cheap, shared) enrichment is charged.
The SOCS=CAI consent-skip cookie is used like the Shorts probe so a server-side request isn't
bounced to consent.youtube.com. This deliberately scrapes an undocumented endpoint: if YouTube
changes the JSON shape or blocks the host, an admin can flip ``search_source`` back to ``api``.
The returned page mirrors :meth:`YouTubeClient.search_videos` exactly
(``{"items": [...], "next_page_token": str | None}``) so the route is source-agnostic the
only difference is the cursor is an InnerTube *continuation token*, not a Data API pageToken.
``published_at`` is left ``None`` (the scrape only exposes a relative time like "3 years ago");
the real date is filled by the videos.list enrich. ``live_broadcast`` is reported as ``"none"``
and live/upcoming filtering happens post-enrich via ``live_status`` (same as the API path)."""
import re
import httpx
_SEARCH_URL = "https://www.youtube.com/youtubei/v1/search"
_RESULTS_URL = "https://www.youtube.com/results"
# Public WEB InnerTube key + a recent client version. These are also embedded in every results
# page; we fetch the live pair once and cache it, falling back to these constants.
_FALLBACK_KEY = "AIzaSyAO_FJ2SlqU8Q4STEHLGCilw_Y9_11qcW8"
_FALLBACK_CLIENT_VERSION = "2.20240101.00.00"
# sp / params value selecting the "type: video" search filter (base64 protobuf EgIQAQ==).
_TYPE_VIDEO = "EgIQAQ=="
_HEADERS = {
"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64)",
# SOCS skips YouTube's cookie-consent interstitial (otherwise every server-side request is
# redirected to consent.youtube.com).
"Cookie": "SOCS=CAI",
"Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.9",
}
_KEY_RE = re.compile(r'"INNERTUBE_API_KEY":"([^"]+)"')
_VER_RE = re.compile(r'"INNERTUBE_CLIENT_VERSION":"([^"]+)"')
# Cached (api_key, client_version) extracted from a results page; refreshed on demand.
_config: tuple[str, str] | None = None
class ScrapeError(Exception):
"""A scrape-based search could not be completed (network, blocked, or unexpected shape)."""
def _runs_text(node: dict | None) -> str | None:
if not node:
return None
if node.get("simpleText"):
return node["simpleText"]
runs = node.get("runs") or []
if runs:
return "".join(r.get("text", "") for r in runs)
return None
def _get_config(client: httpx.Client) -> tuple[str, str]:
"""The current InnerTube (api_key, client_version), cached after the first fetch."""
global _config
if _config is not None:
return _config
try:
resp = client.get(_RESULTS_URL, params={"search_query": "music"})
html = resp.text
key = _KEY_RE.search(html)
ver = _VER_RE.search(html)
_config = (
key.group(1) if key else _FALLBACK_KEY,
ver.group(1) if ver else _FALLBACK_CLIENT_VERSION,
)
except httpx.HTTPError:
_config = (_FALLBACK_KEY, _FALLBACK_CLIENT_VERSION)
return _config
def _video_item(vr: dict) -> dict | None:
"""Flatten a YouTube `videoRenderer` into the same shape as YouTubeClient.search_videos."""
vid = vr.get("videoId")
if not vid:
return None
owner = vr.get("ownerText") or vr.get("longBylineText") or {}
runs = owner.get("runs") or []
channel_id = channel_title = None
if runs:
channel_title = runs[0].get("text")
channel_id = (
runs[0]
.get("navigationEndpoint", {})
.get("browseEndpoint", {})
.get("browseId")
)
thumbs = (vr.get("thumbnail") or {}).get("thumbnails") or []
return {
"id": vid,
"channel_id": channel_id,
"channel_title": channel_title,
"title": _runs_text(vr.get("title")),
"published_at": None, # scrape exposes only a relative time; enrich fills the real date
"thumbnail_url": thumbs[-1]["url"] if thumbs else None,
"live_broadcast": "none", # live/upcoming filtered post-enrich via live_status
}
def _collect_videos(obj, out: list[dict], seen: set[str]) -> None:
"""Walk the response collecting videoRenderer items in document (relevance) order. Only
`videoRenderer` is taken, so channels/playlists/Shorts shelves (reelItemRenderer) are
naturally excluded."""
if isinstance(obj, dict):
vr = obj.get("videoRenderer")
if isinstance(vr, dict):
item = _video_item(vr)
if item and item["id"] not in seen:
seen.add(item["id"])
out.append(item)
for v in obj.values():
_collect_videos(v, out, seen)
elif isinstance(obj, list):
for v in obj:
_collect_videos(v, out, seen)
def _find_continuation(obj) -> str | None:
"""First continuationItemRenderer token (the 'load more' cursor), or None at the end."""
if isinstance(obj, dict):
cir = obj.get("continuationItemRenderer")
if isinstance(cir, dict):
tok = (
cir.get("continuationEndpoint", {})
.get("continuationCommand", {})
.get("token")
)
if tok:
return tok
for v in obj.values():
tok = _find_continuation(v)
if tok:
return tok
elif isinstance(obj, list):
for v in obj:
tok = _find_continuation(v)
if tok:
return tok
return None
def search(q: str, continuation: str | None = None) -> dict:
"""One page of zero-quota YouTube search results.
`continuation` is the InnerTube continuation token from a previous page (None for the first
page). Returns ``{"items": [...], "next_page_token": str | None}`` the same shape as
YouTubeClient.search_videos so the route handles both sources identically."""
with httpx.Client(timeout=20.0, headers=_HEADERS) as client:
api_key, client_version = _get_config(client)
context = {
"client": {
"clientName": "WEB",
"clientVersion": client_version,
"hl": "en",
"gl": "US",
}
}
body: dict = {"context": context}
if continuation:
body["continuation"] = continuation
else:
body["query"] = q
body["params"] = _TYPE_VIDEO
try:
resp = client.post(_SEARCH_URL, params={"key": api_key}, json=body)
resp.raise_for_status()
data = resp.json()
except httpx.HTTPError as exc:
raise ScrapeError(f"InnerTube request failed: {exc}") from exc
except ValueError as exc: # non-JSON body (blocked / consent / captcha)
raise ScrapeError("InnerTube returned a non-JSON response") from exc
items: list[dict] = []
_collect_videos(data, items, set())
return {"items": items, "next_page_token": _find_continuation(data)}