Youtubeexplode: `GetMediaStreamAsync` To handle Youtube stuff?

[SlowLogicBoy]

GetMediaStreamAsync that would handle rate limiting for me?

It took me 2 hours until it occured to me to check how DownloadMediaStreamAsync works.

I would like to get a stream that handles all the Youtube "shenanigans" for me, because right now to make my stream work I would have to basically copy DownloadMediaStreamAsyc code, instead of reusing it from this library?

[Tyrrrz]

I was already considering what would be the best way to do this. Will try to prioritize it.

[Tyrrrz]

Also can you clarify what's the use case for this? Are you playing the video or trying to load it into memory?

[SlowLogicBoy]

trying to load into MemoryStream.

public async Task<HttpResult> Get(YoutubeDownloadVideoRequest request)
{
    var mediaInfo = await _youtubeClient.GetVideoMediaStreamInfosAsync(request.VideoId);
    var videoStream = mediaInfo.Video.WithHighestVideoQuality();
    var stream = await _youtubeClient.GetMediaStreamAsync(videoStream);
    var ms = new MemoryStream();
    stream.CopyTo(ms);
    return new HttpResult(ms, $"video/{stream.Info.Container}");
}

Was testing out if I can do something like this.
But know I know that I would need to download the stream fully, so there would be no point in returning memory stream in this case.
But still loading into memory would be nice.

[Tyrrrz]

Why would you want to do that considering videos can be large?

[Tyrrrz]

You should be able to download it to file instead and steam it from there as a response. Could also be useful for caching.

[SlowLogicBoy]

True that, I might consider this :).
But then again, it writes only on physical storage, where as I need to write to virtual/temporary file storage :), I access files through interface.

[Tyrrrz]

Yeah you will have to clean up after yourself I guess, but you really shouldn't load large binary files into RAM. I will do something to make it possible though.

[SlowLogicBoy]

That's the problem :)
I need a stream that I could load into a file or through network, without loading into ram.

[Tyrrrz]

It would be really difficult to return a single stream that will run multiple HTTP requests behind the hood and I think in most use-cases it's not worth it. However I added an overload for DownloadMediaStreamAsync that takes stream as an output (instead of file path), this way you can copy the contents to a stream at full speed, without allocating the video in memory. In your example, however, you would need to figure out a different way to use it, because the way it is you'll still have a memory stream anyway, but at least now you won't have to copy-paste the rate-bypass logic from YoutubeExplode.