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custom reporter - youtube videos are limited in functionality

Open ra-at-diladele-com opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

ra-at-diladele-com avatar Jan 05 '22 13:01 ra-at-diladele-com

Currently we parse the video id from URL parameters. This works only when client uses GET request.

At present the YT site when viewed from the browser uses POST requests to initiate the video playback; POST requests contain video IDs in the payload (body) - so we cannot find out the video id from them - thus our Admin UI does not show any viewed URLs.

One way to fix this problem is to set the X-WebSafety-YouTube-VID header for example, from within the module that is now responsible for YT guard functionality. Then we can drop that value into access log and later parse it in the statistics. It is a big change though that might be done in the next version.

ra-at-diladele-com avatar Jan 07 '22 09:01 ra-at-diladele-com

The YT guard was now reduced to video ID lookup, and all (non working) YT filtering was removed from the product in 9.0. This issue is not valid any more.

ra-at-diladele-com avatar Mar 29 '24 09:03 ra-at-diladele-com