Blocked public API use for goodtube4u about cobalt HOT 4 CLOSED

what error are you getting? is it being redirected to blocked.cobalt.tools?

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Hey thanks for the reply.

Uh yep, that's being returned when I direct a user to the stream URL that the API returns.

Was working fine, then suddenly this problem so I don't think it's my implementation.

Do you think the issue is that requests originating from youtube.com are being blocked by the API / CORS headers or similar?

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Further on this, I get the stream URL back from the following endpoint:
https://api.cobalt.tools/api/json/

However, from there I try to open it for the user using:
window.open('THE STREAM URL THAT WAS RETURNED', '_self');

That redirects the user to blocked.cobalt.tools

Other times in the script, I also try to fetch the source of the stream URL using Javascript's fetch API (in order to put it in a blob object so I can then rename it for them before downloading it). This is also failing.

Any ideas?

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we've blocked access to our api from your extension because we don't agree with your ethics:

• you mislead users to believe that you block ads, when in reality you swap out the player for invidious one.
• you use invidious instances without mentioning them (or even the fact that you use them at all) anywhere:

• you tried to obfuscate the old cobalt api endpoint to hide the fact that you're using it:

• you've lied in this issue about using the new api endpoint.
• you're now calling your users to "send angry messages" to us:

we will not unblock your extension, but you can host a cobalt instance yourself and use it instead. you have to mention that you rely on cobalt and invidious with links to respective github repos.

we reserve full rights to take any actions needed to stop unfair use of our free api.

i have archived the user script with obfuscation of our old api endpoint & call for your users to send us "angry messages": https://web.archive.org/web/20240630075645/https://github.com/goodtube4u/goodtube/raw/main/goodtube.user.js

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