On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 9:56 PM Tim via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > Tim: > > > For one like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ob9LHPEaKY you can type > > > ob9LHPEaKY into the YouTube search gadget and it will find that clip. > > > And for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-_qS_3KXBA typing just this > > > _qS_3KXBA bit into the search gadget works. > > Go Canes: > > If you put the full 11-character "key" in double-quotes in the youtube > > search field it should work. > > "-ob9LHPEaKY" worked (11 chars), but "D-_qS_3KXBA" (11 chars) didn't, > though "-_qS_3KXBA" (10 chars) does.
$ echo -n '-ob9LHPEaKY' | base64 -d base64: invalid input $ echo -n 'D-_qS_3KXBA' | base64 -d base64: invalid input $ echo -n '-_qS_3KXBA' | base64 -d base64: invalid input > > There are articles on the web that talk about the "key" - IIRC, each > > youtube video gets a unique 64-bit integer and the "key" is that > > integer base64 encoded, BUT, with some characters substituted to make > > it work within a URL. > > I read one about it being Base64. > > But if you do decode it, whatever scheme they use, all you get is a > longer serial number type of string. So I still reckon it's still just > a code created on the spot that's probably just a serial number (simply > incrementing in some way with every upload by everyone in the world), > or a timestamp related value. Either way, it doesn't tell you anything > useful. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
