YouTubeKitError.htmlParseError & slow download speed

[iandundas]

Hi! :)

I'm getting a YouTubeKitError.htmlParseError being thrown in Extraction.getYTPlayerConfig() for the pattern ytplayer\.config\s*=\s*

This leads to pattern (ytplayer\.config\s*=\s*) failed: The operation couldn’t be completed. being logged.

(example URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j6pkKwpOFk)

After that, the download proceeds but is really slow. (this may or may not be related to the above).

I guess YouTube is throttling the download, because (it's really slow, and) if I also just wget the URL that YouTubeKit is downloading, the download speed is get is like 11KB/s (on a gigabit/ethernet line)

My guess is that the HTML parse for config is failing, and the fallback only allows slow downloads? Just a guess though.

Thanks for reading!

[alexeichhorn]

This is likely not related. YouTube downloads are known to be throttled sometimes on purpose.
There is some ways to circumvent it and get fast downloads - maybe I implement it in the future.
But for now you can take a look in #17 were I described it a little.