FYI this isn't working very well with youtube at the moment about sdk HOT 7 CLOSED

@fusir @coffeewithdonut We're continuing effort to fix this, can you check now and feedback us if it's working better?

No issues anymore thank you

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Hello, thanks for reaching. Microlink is using a headless browser under the hood. I think this is happening because we are sending too much traffic to YouTube and they shadow ban us for a while.

It needs to be investigated, thanks for reporting, I will report back after a better understanding of what's happening.

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@fusir is it working better these days? We implemented changes 🙂

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@Kikobeats I'm still seeing issues with this; it seems to pull video titles/descriptions sporadically. Otherwise, defaults back to – YouTube / Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

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@coffeewithdonut did you try is passing prerender parameter is working better?

In that way it's going to ensure to use a headless browser:
https://microlink.io/docs/api/parameters/prerender

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@Kikobeats Yes, I've had more success with prerender set to false for YouTube links because Google seems to intercept the headless browser requests. It also seems like there is a cache layer that prerender false fetches from, popular videos tend to work, or videos I've fetched previously, but new videos initially return responses as below.

Here are some example responses

Prerender false:

{
  lang: null,
  author: null,
  title: 'watch?v=Y25LDO6OLzQ',
  publisher: 'YouTube',
  image: {
    url: 'https://img.youtube.com/vi/Y25LDO6OLzQ/maxresdefault.jpg',
    type: 'jpg',
    size: 44575,
    height: 720,
    width: 1280,
    size_pretty: '44.6 kB'
  },
  date: '2024-04-22T01:05:06.000Z',
  description: null,
  url: 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y25LDO6OLzQ',
  logo: {
    url: 'https://www.youtube.com/favicon.ico',
    type: 'ico',
    size: 1150,
    height: 16,
    width: 16,
    size_pretty: '1.15 kB'
  }
}

Prerender true:

{
  lang: null,
  author: null,
  title: 'index?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DY25LDO6OLzQ&q=EgSG0aUUGIvulrEGIjAJjJxx2b-Y1a2_sb7ANF15KR3j8TezYD32d6H29gmpBoNh0pu6xWEuejAFvHcRpfsyAXJaAUM',
  publisher: 'YouTube',
  image: null,
  date: '2024-04-22T01:04:33.000Z',
  video: null,
  description: null,
  url: 'https://www.google.com/sorry/index?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DY25LDO6OLzQ&q=EgSG0aUUGIvulrEGIjAJjJxx2b-Y1a2_sb7ANF15KR3j8TezYD32d6H29gmpBoNh0pu6xWEuejAFvHcRpfsyAXJaAUM',
  logo: {
    url: 'https://www.google.com/favicon.ico',
    type: 'ico',
    size: 5430,
    height: 16,
    width: 16,
    size_pretty: '5.43 kB'
  }
}

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@fusir @coffeewithdonut We're continuing effort to fix this, can you check now and feedback us if it's working better?

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