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Added YouTube Plugins
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MIT License

Copyright (c) 2013-present, The YOURLS Contributors

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of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
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# Fix Youtube titles [![Listed in Awesome YOURLS!](https://img.shields.io/badge/Awesome-YOURLS-C5A3BE)](https://github.com/YOURLS/awesome-yourls/)

_Without this plugin_, shortening a Youtube URL returns an incorrect title: <kbd>Before you continue to YouTube</kbd> (read why below)

**With this plugin**, you get the correct title, ie <kbd>Backyard Squirrel Maze 1.0- Ninja Warrior Course - YouTube</kbd>

Tested with [YOURLS](https://yourls.org) `1.8.1` and above.

## Installation

1. In `/user/plugins`, create a new folder named `fix-youtube-titles` or something like this
2. Drop these files in that directory.
3. Go to the Plugins administration page (eg. `http://sho.rt/admin/plugins.php`) and activate the plugin.
4. Have fun!

## License

Do what the hell you want with it.

## Why is this needed?

Youtube redirects every unknown user to a page where they need to accept their darn cookies:

<img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/223647/120112768-85809e80-c177-11eb-952a-d1ab429be086.png" width="300px" />

Your YOURLS instance is such an _unknown_ user to Google, since it has no Youtube cookie. This plugin tricks Youtube and makes it think it has one.

🍪 FTW.
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<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Fix Youtube titles
Plugin URI: https://github.com/ozh/fix-youtube-titles/
Description: Get correct Youtube video titles
Version: 1.0
Author: Ozh
Author URI: http://ozh.org/
*/

// No direct call
if( !defined( 'YOURLS_ABSPATH' ) ) die();

// Add filters if we're trying to get a page title from Youtube
yourls_add_filter('shunt_get_remote_title', 'ozh_is_youtube_url');
function ozh_is_youtube_url($false, $url) {
// is this a youtube.com URL ?
if( strpos($url, 'youtube.com') > 0 ) {
// change user agent to "curl". Actually, this is enough to trick Youtube ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
yourls_add_filter('http_user_agent', function(){return 'curl/7.68.0';});

// The <title> tag in Youtube pages is buried down the page : lift limit of bytes retrieved
yourls_add_filter('get_remote_title_max_byte', function(){return '';});

// Extra trick : fake the cookie that Youtube expects (requires YOURLS 1.8.2+)
yourls_add_filter('http_request_headers', 'ozh_youtube_add_consent');
}

// We don't want to actually interrupt the flow of event so we return false
return $false;
}

// Add a cookie header to the HTTP request
function ozh_youtube_add_consent($in) {
$in['Cookie']='CONSENT=YES+1337';
return $in;
}

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