Is it possible to get the stream URL somehow?

[boernsen-development]

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I would like to get the stream URL, is this possible somehow?

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NewPipe 0.28.0 from F-Droid

[absurdlylongusername]

Can you please elaborate on your question? What stream URL?

[boernsen-development]

I am looking for the URL to the actual video stream, i.e. the media (not the yt URL), which I assume is used when downloading a video(?).

I would like to use it within other apps every now and then.

[absurdlylongusername]

This is not accessible from within NewPipe. You'd have to run the app in Android Studio and set a breakpoint in the extractor code and manually copy the stream URL that way.

Regardless, the direct content stream URLs expire, and for YouTube I think they expire after an hour, so I'm not sure how useful this would be anyway.

Alternatively you could just get the stream URLs using yt-dlp or from browser dev tools.

[boernsen-development]

Thanks for the quick reply!

Just for the reference, I found this issue, which I think would solve it if implemented: #3448