Does not work with channelId but it works liveId

[Khyretos]

it does not work when i put my channel id:

//const liveChat = new LiveChat({ liveId: "0cWertczhs0" })
const liveChat = new LiveChat({ channelId: "UC8v86z0UWlgIg-foURD1Lyw" })

const ok = liveChat.start()

// Emit at start of observation chat.
// liveId: string
liveChat.on("start", (liveId) => {
    /* Your code here! */
    console.log("1");
})

// Emit at end of observation chat.
// reason: string?
liveChat.on("end", (reason) => {
    /* Your code here! */
    console.log("2");
})

// Emit at receive chat.
// chat: ChatItem
liveChat.on("chat", (chatItem) => {
    /* Your code here! */
    console.log("3");
})

// Emit when an error occurs
// err: Error or any
liveChat.on("error", (err) => {
    /* Your code here! */
    console.log("4");
})

// Start fetch loop

if (!ok) {
    console.log("Failed to start, check emitted error")
}

error:

D:\999 - OS\Documents\LoquendoBotV2\node_modules\axios\lib\adapters\xhr.js:210 GET https://consent.youtube.com/m?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fchannel%2FUC8v86z0UWlgIg-foURD1Lyw%2Flive&gl=NL&m=0&pc=yt&uxe=23983171&hl=en&src=1 403

[neverclear86]

umm...

Your code works on my PC...

[Khyretos]

When i created mine with python i had to send this:

# Header needs to be send in order to get response
headers = {
    'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.8',
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:67.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/67.0',
}

# Cookie needs to be send in order to get response
cookies={
    'CONSENT': 'YES+42'
}

maybe that is missing for me since i use it in electron.

[Khyretos]

can i modify your code to insert these headers and cookies to see if it works?
where do i need to add this?

[neverclear86]

I tested whether the header was necessary or not, but it worked without it, so I don't specify it now.

[Khyretos]

can you send me the code with the headers to test it on my end? maybe its just a issue for me.

[Khyretos]

or a different branch so i can test it

[neverclear86]

You can specify a header in requests.ts

[Khyretos]

I figured it out:

in my country you need to confirm a dialog before opening youtube:

i tried it with postman and these are the headers i need to send:

'cache-control': 'no-cache',
Connection: 'keep-alive',
Cookie: 'CONSENT=YES+42',
Host: 'www.youtube.com',
'Postman-Token': '22881d06-be4b-4ff5-9e91-67ce106f8379,151619c9-a51e-4f11-9318-2961809b2fa4',
'Cache-Control': 'no-cache',
Accept: '*/*',
'User-Agent': 'PostmanRuntime/7.17.1',

but if i try to send these headers with the npm package axios i get this:

const axiosConfig = {
headers: {
	'content-Type': 'application/json',
	Accept: '/',
	'cache-control': 'no-cache',
	Connection: 'keep-alive',
	Cookie: 'CONSENT=YES+42',
	Host: 'www.youtube.com',
	'Postman-Token': '22881d06-be4b-4ff5-9e91-67ce106f8379,151619c9-a51e-4f11-9318-2961809b2fa4',
	'Cache-Control': 'no-cache',
	'User-Agent': 'PostmanRuntime/7.17.1',
},
credentials: 'same-origin',
};
axios.defaults.withCredentials = true;
axios.get(
`https://www.youtube.com/channel/${channelId}/live`,
axiosConfig,
)
.then((res) => {
// Some result here
	console.log(res);
})
.catch((err) => {
	console.log(err);
});

and when i do it with npm package request it is a success:

	const options = {
		method: 'GET',
		url: `https://www.youtube.com/channel/${channelId}/live`,
		headers:
		{
			'cache-control': 'no-cache',
			Connection: 'keep-alive',
			Cookie: 'CONSENT=YES+42',
			Host: 'www.youtube.com',
			'Postman-Token': '22881d06-be4b-4ff5-9e91-67ce106f8379,151619c9-a51e-4f11-9318-2961809b2fa4',
			'Cache-Control': 'no-cache',
			Accept: '*/*',
			'User-Agent': 'PostmanRuntime/7.17.1',
		},
	};

	request(options, (error, response, body) => {
		if (error) throw new Error(error);

		const soup = new JsSoup(body, false);

		const livestreamLink = soup.findAll('link', { rel: 'canonical' });
		console.log(livestreamLink);

	});
}

you can close the case if you want but if other people use your package it will need to get updated.

[neverclear86]

I see...
I didn't notice it because there is no dialog in Japan. 😞
I have a plan to replace axios with another library, so I'm sorry, but I'll think about it a bit.

[rodrigograca31]

Mine was working with channelId then stopped working but worked with liveId and now I went back and works with channelId again so I guess its some caching or something?

maybe when using channelId it tries to get the live but because its a parser it gets the previous live that is cached and then doesnt work? 🤔