ahmad-module 1.0.0

package/ytdl-core/lib/info.js

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+const querystring = require('querystring');
+const sax = require('sax');
+const miniget = require('miniget');
+const utils = require('./utils');
+// Forces Node JS version of setTimeout for Electron based applications
+const { setTimeout } = require('timers');
+const formatUtils = require('./format-utils');
+const urlUtils = require('./url-utils');
+const extras = require('./info-extras');
+const sig = require('./sig');
+const Cache = require('./cache');
+
+
+const BASE_URL = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=';
+
+
+// Cached for storing basic/full info.
+exports.cache = new Cache();
+exports.cookieCache = new Cache(1000 * 60 * 60 * 24);
+exports.watchPageCache = new Cache();
+// Cache for cver used in getVideoInfoPage
+let cver = '2.20210622.10.00';
+
+
+// Special error class used to determine if an error is unrecoverable,
+// as in, ytdl-core should not try again to fetch the video metadata.
+// In this case, the video is usually unavailable in some way.
+class UnrecoverableError extends Error {}
+
+
+// List of URLs that show up in `notice_url` for age restricted videos.
+const AGE_RESTRICTED_URLS = [
+  'support.google.com/youtube/?p=age_restrictions',
+  'youtube.com/t/community_guidelines',
+];
+
+
+/**
+ * Gets info from a video without getting additional formats.
+ *
+ * @param {string} id
+ * @param {Object} options
+ * @returns {Promise<Object>}
+*/
+exports.getBasicInfo = async(id, options) => {
+  if (options.IPv6Block) {
+    options.requestOptions = Object.assign({}, options.requestOptions, {
+      family: 6,
+      localAddress: utils.getRandomIPv6(options.IPv6Block),
+    });
+  }
+  const retryOptions = Object.assign({}, miniget.defaultOptions, options.requestOptions);
+  options.requestOptions = Object.assign({}, options.requestOptions, {});
+  options.requestOptions.headers = Object.assign({},
+    {
+      // eslint-disable-next-line max-len
+      'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.101 Safari/537.36',
+    }, options.requestOptions.headers);
+  const validate = info => {
+    let playErr = utils.playError(info.player_response, ['ERROR'], UnrecoverableError);
+    let privateErr = privateVideoError(info.player_response);
+    if (playErr || privateErr) {
+      throw playErr || privateErr;
+    }
+    return info && info.player_response && (
+      info.player_response.streamingData || isRental(info.player_response) || isNotYetBroadcasted(info.player_response)
+    );
+  };
+  let info = await pipeline([id, options], validate, retryOptions, [
+    getWatchHTMLPage,
+    getWatchJSONPage,
+    getVideoInfoPage,
+  ]);
+
+  Object.assign(info, {
+    formats: parseFormats(info.player_response),
+    related_videos: extras.getRelatedVideos(info),
+  });
+
+  // Add additional properties to info.
+  const media = extras.getMedia(info);
+  const additional = {
+    author: extras.getAuthor(info),
+    media,
+    likes: extras.getLikes(info),
+    dislikes: extras.getDislikes(info),
+    age_restricted: !!(media && AGE_RESTRICTED_URLS.some(url =>
+      Object.values(media).some(v => typeof v === 'string' && v.includes(url)))
+    ),
+
+    // Give the standard link to the video.
+    video_url: BASE_URL + id,
+    storyboards: extras.getStoryboards(info),
+    chapters: extras.getChapters(info),
+  };
+
+  info.videoDetails = extras.cleanVideoDetails(Object.assign({},
+    info.player_response && info.player_response.microformat &&
+    info.player_response.microformat.playerMicroformatRenderer,
+    info.player_response && info.player_response.videoDetails, additional), info);
+
+  return info;
+};
+
+const privateVideoError = player_response => {
+  let playability = player_response && player_response.playabilityStatus;
+  if (playability && playability.status === 'LOGIN_REQUIRED' && playability.messages &&
+    playability.messages.filter(m => /This is a private video/.test(m)).length) {
+    return new UnrecoverableError(playability.reason || (playability.messages && playability.messages[0]));
+  } else {
+    return null;
+  }
+};
+
+
+const isRental = player_response => {
+  let playability = player_response.playabilityStatus;
+  return playability && playability.status === 'UNPLAYABLE' &&
+    playability.errorScreen && playability.errorScreen.playerLegacyDesktopYpcOfferRenderer;
+};
+
+
+const isNotYetBroadcasted = player_response => {
+  let playability = player_response.playabilityStatus;
+  return playability && playability.status === 'LIVE_STREAM_OFFLINE';
+};
+
+
+const getWatchHTMLURL = (id, options) => `${BASE_URL + id}&hl=${options.lang || 'en'}`;
+const getWatchHTMLPageBody = (id, options) => {
+  const url = getWatchHTMLURL(id, options);
+  return exports.watchPageCache.getOrSet(url, () => utils.exposedMiniget(url, options).text());
+};
+
+
+const EMBED_URL = 'https://www.youtube.com/embed/';
+const getEmbedPageBody = (id, options) => {
+  const embedUrl = `${EMBED_URL + id}?hl=${options.lang || 'en'}`;
+  return utils.exposedMiniget(embedUrl, options).text();
+};
+
+
+const getHTML5player = body => {
+  let html5playerRes =
+    /<script\s+src="([^"]+)"(?:\s+type="text\/javascript")?\s+name="player_ias\/base"\s*>|"jsUrl":"([^"]+)"/
+      .exec(body);
+  return html5playerRes ? html5playerRes[1] || html5playerRes[2] : null;
+};
+
+
+const getIdentityToken = (id, options, key, throwIfNotFound) =>
+  exports.cookieCache.getOrSet(key, async() => {
+    let page = await getWatchHTMLPageBody(id, options);
+    let match = page.match(/(["'])ID_TOKEN\1[:,]\s?"([^"]+)"/);
+    if (!match && throwIfNotFound) {
+      throw new UnrecoverableError('Cookie header used in request, but unable to find YouTube identity token');
+    }
+    return match && match[2];
+  });
+
+
+/**
+ * Goes through each endpoint in the pipeline, retrying on failure if the error is recoverable.
+ * If unable to succeed with one endpoint, moves onto the next one.
+ *
+ * @param {Array.<Object>} args
+ * @param {Function} validate
+ * @param {Object} retryOptions
+ * @param {Array.<Function>} endpoints
+ * @returns {[Object, Object, Object]}
+ */
+const pipeline = async(args, validate, retryOptions, endpoints) => {
+  let info;
+  for (let func of endpoints) {
+    try {
+      const newInfo = await retryFunc(func, args.concat([info]), retryOptions);
+      if (newInfo.player_response) {
+        newInfo.player_response.videoDetails = assign(
+          info && info.player_response && info.player_response.videoDetails,
+          newInfo.player_response.videoDetails);
+        newInfo.player_response = assign(info && info.player_response, newInfo.player_response);
+      }
+      info = assign(info, newInfo);
+      if (validate(info, false)) {
+        break;
+      }
+    } catch (err) {
+      if (err instanceof UnrecoverableError || func === endpoints[endpoints.length - 1]) {
+        throw err;
+      }
+      // Unable to find video metadata... so try next endpoint.
+    }
+  }
+  return info;
+};
+
+
+/**
+ * Like Object.assign(), but ignores `null` and `undefined` from `source`.
+ *
+ * @param {Object} target
+ * @param {Object} source
+ * @returns {Object}
+ */
+const assign = (target, source) => {
+  if (!target || !source) { return target || source; }
+  for (let [key, value] of Object.entries(source)) {
+    if (value !== null && value !== undefined) {
+      target[key] = value;
+    }
+  }
+  return target;
+};
+
+
+/**
+ * Given a function, calls it with `args` until it's successful,
+ * or until it encounters an unrecoverable error.
+ * Currently, any error from miniget is considered unrecoverable. Errors such as
+ * too many redirects, invalid URL, status code 404, status code 502.
+ *
+ * @param {Function} func
+ * @param {Array.<Object>} args
+ * @param {Object} options
+ * @param {number} options.maxRetries
+ * @param {Object} options.backoff
+ * @param {number} options.backoff.inc
+ */
+const retryFunc = async(func, args, options) => {
+  let currentTry = 0, result;
+  while (currentTry <= options.maxRetries) {
+    try {
+      result = await func(...args);
+      break;
+    } catch (err) {
+      if (err instanceof UnrecoverableError ||
+        (err instanceof miniget.MinigetError && err.statusCode < 500) || currentTry >= options.maxRetries) {
+        throw err;
+      }
+      let wait = Math.min(++currentTry * options.backoff.inc, options.backoff.max);
+      await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, wait));
+    }
+  }
+  return result;
+};
+
+
+const jsonClosingChars = /^[)\]}'\s]+/;
+const parseJSON = (source, varName, json) => {
+  if (!json || typeof json === 'object') {
+    return json;
+  } else {
+    try {
+      json = json.replace(jsonClosingChars, '');
+      return JSON.parse(json);
+    } catch (err) {
+      throw Error(`Error parsing ${varName} in ${source}: ${err.message}`);
+    }
+  }
+};
+
+
+const findJSON = (source, varName, body, left, right, prependJSON) => {
+  let jsonStr = utils.between(body, left, right);
+  if (!jsonStr) {
+    throw Error(`Could not find ${varName} in ${source}`);
+  }
+  return parseJSON(source, varName, utils.cutAfterJS(`${prependJSON}${jsonStr}`));
+};
+
+
+const findPlayerResponse = (source, info) => {
+  const player_response = info && (
+    (info.args && info.args.player_response) ||
+    info.player_response || info.playerResponse || info.embedded_player_response);
+  return parseJSON(source, 'player_response', player_response);
+};
+
+
+const getWatchJSONURL = (id, options) => `${getWatchHTMLURL(id, options)}&pbj=1`;
+const getWatchJSONPage = async(id, options) => {
+  const reqOptions = Object.assign({ headers: {} }, options.requestOptions);
+  let cookie = reqOptions.headers.Cookie || reqOptions.headers.cookie;
+  reqOptions.headers = Object.assign({
+    'x-youtube-client-name': '1',
+    'x-youtube-client-version': cver,
+    'x-youtube-identity-token': exports.cookieCache.get(cookie || 'browser') || '',
+  }, reqOptions.headers);
+
+  const setIdentityToken = async(key, throwIfNotFound) => {
+    if (reqOptions.headers['x-youtube-identity-token']) { return; }
+    reqOptions.headers['x-youtube-identity-token'] = await getIdentityToken(id, options, key, throwIfNotFound);
+  };
+
+  if (cookie) {
+    await setIdentityToken(cookie, true);
+  }
+
+  const jsonUrl = getWatchJSONURL(id, options);
+  const body = await utils.exposedMiniget(jsonUrl, options, reqOptions).text();
+  let parsedBody = parseJSON('watch.json', 'body', body);
+  if (parsedBody.reload === 'now') {
+    await setIdentityToken('browser', false);
+  }
+  if (parsedBody.reload === 'now' || !Array.isArray(parsedBody)) {
+    throw Error('Unable to retrieve video metadata in watch.json');
+  }
+  let info = parsedBody.reduce((part, curr) => Object.assign(curr, part), {});
+  info.player_response = findPlayerResponse('watch.json', info);
+  info.html5player = info.player && info.player.assets && info.player.assets.js;
+
+  return info;
+};
+
+
+const getWatchHTMLPage = async(id, options) => {
+  let body = await getWatchHTMLPageBody(id, options);
+  let info = { page: 'watch' };
+  try {
+    cver = utils.between(body, '{"key":"cver","value":"', '"}');
+    info.player_response = findJSON('watch.html', 'player_response',
+      body, /\bytInitialPlayerResponse\s*=\s*\{/i, '</script>', '{');
+  } catch (err) {
+    let args = findJSON('watch.html', 'player_response', body, /\bytplayer\.config\s*=\s*{/, '</script>', '{');
+    info.player_response = findPlayerResponse('watch.html', args);
+  }
+  info.response = findJSON('watch.html', 'response', body, /\bytInitialData("\])?\s*=\s*\{/i, '</script>', '{');
+  info.html5player = getHTML5player(body);
+  return info;
+};
+
+
+const INFO_HOST = 'www.youtube.com';
+const INFO_PATH = '/get_video_info';
+const VIDEO_EURL = 'https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/';
+const getVideoInfoPage = async(id, options) => {
+  const url = new URL(`https://${INFO_HOST}${INFO_PATH}`);
+  url.searchParams.set('video_id', id);
+  url.searchParams.set('c', 'TVHTML5');
+  url.searchParams.set('cver', `7${cver.substr(1)}`);
+  url.searchParams.set('eurl', VIDEO_EURL + id);
+  url.searchParams.set('ps', 'default');
+  url.searchParams.set('gl', 'US');
+  url.searchParams.set('hl', options.lang || 'en');
+  url.searchParams.set('html5', '1');
+  const body = await utils.exposedMiniget(url.toString(), options).text();
+  let info = querystring.parse(body);
+  info.player_response = findPlayerResponse('get_video_info', info);
+  return info;
+};
+
+
+/**
+ * @param {Object} player_response
+ * @returns {Array.<Object>}
+ */
+const parseFormats = player_response => {
+  let formats = [];
+  if (player_response && player_response.streamingData) {
+    formats = formats
+      .concat(player_response.streamingData.formats || [])
+      .concat(player_response.streamingData.adaptiveFormats || []);
+  }
+  return formats;
+};
+
+
+/**
+ * Gets info from a video additional formats and deciphered URLs.
+ *
+ * @param {string} id
+ * @param {Object} options
+ * @returns {Promise<Object>}
+ */
+exports.getInfo = async(id, options) => {
+  let info = await exports.getBasicInfo(id, options);
+  const hasManifest =
+    info.player_response && info.player_response.streamingData && (
+      info.player_response.streamingData.dashManifestUrl ||
+      info.player_response.streamingData.hlsManifestUrl
+    );
+  let funcs = [];
+  if (info.formats.length) {
+    info.html5player = info.html5player ||
+      getHTML5player(await getWatchHTMLPageBody(id, options)) || getHTML5player(await getEmbedPageBody(id, options));
+    if (!info.html5player) {
+      throw Error('Unable to find html5player file');
+    }
+    const html5player = new URL(info.html5player, BASE_URL).toString();
+    funcs.push(sig.decipherFormats(info.formats, html5player, options));
+  }
+  if (hasManifest && info.player_response.streamingData.dashManifestUrl) {
+    let url = info.player_response.streamingData.dashManifestUrl;
+    funcs.push(getDashManifest(url, options));
+  }
+  if (hasManifest && info.player_response.streamingData.hlsManifestUrl) {
+    let url = info.player_response.streamingData.hlsManifestUrl;
+    funcs.push(getM3U8(url, options));
+  }
+
+  let results = await Promise.all(funcs);
+  info.formats = Object.values(Object.assign({}, ...results));
+  info.formats = info.formats.map(formatUtils.addFormatMeta);
+  info.formats.sort(formatUtils.sortFormats);
+  info.full = true;
+  return info;
+};
+
+
+/**
+ * Gets additional DASH formats.
+ *
+ * @param {string} url
+ * @param {Object} options
+ * @returns {Promise<Array.<Object>>}
+ */
+const getDashManifest = (url, options) => new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+  let formats = {};
+  const parser = sax.parser(false);
+  parser.onerror = reject;
+  let adaptationSet;
+  parser.onopentag = node => {
+    if (node.name === 'ADAPTATIONSET') {
+      adaptationSet = node.attributes;
+    } else if (node.name === 'REPRESENTATION') {
+      const itag = parseInt(node.attributes.ID);
+      if (!isNaN(itag)) {
+        formats[url] = Object.assign({
+          itag, url,
+          bitrate: parseInt(node.attributes.BANDWIDTH),
+          mimeType: `${adaptationSet.MIMETYPE}; codecs="${node.attributes.CODECS}"`,
+        }, node.attributes.HEIGHT ? {
+          width: parseInt(node.attributes.WIDTH),
+          height: parseInt(node.attributes.HEIGHT),
+          fps: parseInt(node.attributes.FRAMERATE),
+        } : {
+          audioSampleRate: node.attributes.AUDIOSAMPLINGRATE,
+        });
+      }
+    }
+  };
+  parser.onend = () => { resolve(formats); };
+  const req = utils.exposedMiniget(new URL(url, BASE_URL).toString(), options);
+  req.setEncoding('utf8');
+  req.on('error', reject);
+  req.on('data', chunk => { parser.write(chunk); });
+  req.on('end', parser.close.bind(parser));
+});
+
+
+/**
+ * Gets additional formats.
+ *
+ * @param {string} url
+ * @param {Object} options
+ * @returns {Promise<Array.<Object>>}
+ */
+const getM3U8 = async(url, options) => {
+  url = new URL(url, BASE_URL);
+  const body = await utils.exposedMiniget(url.toString(), options).text();
+  let formats = {};
+  body
+    .split('\n')
+    .filter(line => /^https?:\/\//.test(line))
+    .forEach(line => {
+      const itag = parseInt(line.match(/\/itag\/(\d+)\//)[1]);
+      formats[line] = { itag, url: line };
+    });
+  return formats;
+};
+
+
+// Cache get info functions.
+// In case a user wants to get a video's info before downloading.
+for (let funcName of ['getBasicInfo', 'getInfo']) {
+  /**
+   * @param {string} link
+   * @param {Object} options
+   * @returns {Promise<Object>}
+   */
+  const func = exports[funcName];
+  exports[funcName] = async(link, options = {}) => {
+    utils.checkForUpdates();
+    let id = await urlUtils.getVideoID(link);
+    const key = [funcName, id, options.lang].join('-');
+    return exports.cache.getOrSet(key, () => func(id, options));
+  };
+}
+
+
+// Export a few helpers.
+exports.validateID = urlUtils.validateID;
+exports.validateURL = urlUtils.validateURL;
+exports.getURLVideoID = urlUtils.getURLVideoID;
+exports.getVideoID = urlUtils.getVideoID;

package/ytdl-core/lib/sig.js

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+const querystring = require('querystring');
+const Cache = require('./cache');
+const utils = require('./utils');
+const vm = require('vm');
+
+// A shared cache to keep track of html5player js functions.
+exports.cache = new Cache();
+
+/**
+ * Extract signature deciphering and n parameter transform functions from html5player file.
+ *
+ * @param {string} html5playerfile
+ * @param {Object} options
+ * @returns {Promise<Array.<string>>}
+ */
+exports.getFunctions = (html5playerfile, options) => exports.cache.getOrSet(html5playerfile, async() => {
+  const body = await utils.exposedMiniget(html5playerfile, options).text();
+  const functions = exports.extractFunctions(body);
+  if (!functions || !functions.length) {
+    throw Error('Could not extract functions');
+  }
+  exports.cache.set(html5playerfile, functions);
+  return functions;
+});
+
+/**
+ * Extracts the actions that should be taken to decipher a signature
+ * and tranform the n parameter
+ *
+ * @param {string} body
+ * @returns {Array.<string>}
+ */
+exports.extractFunctions = body => {
+  const functions = [];
+  const extractManipulations = caller => {
+    const functionName = utils.between(caller, `a=a.split("");`, `.`);
+    if (!functionName) return '';
+    const functionStart = `var ${functionName}={`;
+    const ndx = body.indexOf(functionStart);
+    if (ndx < 0) return '';
+    const subBody = body.slice(ndx + functionStart.length - 1);
+    return `var ${functionName}=${utils.cutAfterJS(subBody)}`;
+  };
+  const extractDecipher = () => {
+    const functionName = utils.between(body, `a.set("alr","yes");c&&(c=`, `(decodeURIC`);
+    if (functionName && functionName.length) {
+      const functionStart = `${functionName}=function(a)`;
+      const ndx = body.indexOf(functionStart);
+      if (ndx >= 0) {
+        const subBody = body.slice(ndx + functionStart.length);
+        let functionBody = `var ${functionStart}${utils.cutAfterJS(subBody)}`;
+        functionBody = `${extractManipulations(functionBody)};${functionBody};${functionName}(sig);`;
+        functions.push(functionBody);
+      }
+    }
+  };
+  const extractNCode = () => {
+    let functionName = utils.between(body, `&&(b=a.get("n"))&&(b=`, `(b)`);
+    if (functionName.includes('[')) functionName = utils.between(body, `${functionName.split('[')[0]}=[`, `]`);
+    if (functionName && functionName.length) {
+      const functionStart = `${functionName}=function(a)`;
+      const ndx = body.indexOf(functionStart);
+      if (ndx >= 0) {
+        const subBody = body.slice(ndx + functionStart.length);
+        const functionBody = `var ${functionStart}${utils.cutAfterJS(subBody)};${functionName}(ncode);`;
+        functions.push(functionBody);
+      }
+    }
+  };
+  extractDecipher();
+  extractNCode();
+  return functions;
+};
+
+/**
+ * Apply decipher and n-transform to individual format
+ *
+ * @param {Object} format
+ * @param {vm.Script} decipherScript
+ * @param {vm.Script} nTransformScript
+ */
+exports.setDownloadURL = (format, decipherScript, nTransformScript) => {
+  const decipher = url => {
+    const args = querystring.parse(url);
+    if (!args.s || !decipherScript) return args.url;
+    const components = new URL(decodeURIComponent(args.url));
+    components.searchParams.set(args.sp ? args.sp : 'signature',
+      decipherScript.runInNewContext({ sig: decodeURIComponent(args.s) }));
+    return components.toString();
+  };
+  const ncode = url => {
+    const components = new URL(decodeURIComponent(url));
+    const n = components.searchParams.get('n');
+    if (!n || !nTransformScript) return url;
+    components.searchParams.set('n', nTransformScript.runInNewContext({ ncode: n }));
+    return components.toString();
+  };
+  const cipher = !format.url;
+  const url = format.url || format.signatureCipher || format.cipher;
+  format.url = cipher ? ncode(decipher(url)) : ncode(url);
+  delete format.signatureCipher;
+  delete format.cipher;
+};
+
+/**
+ * Applies decipher and n parameter transforms to all format URL's.
+ *
+ * @param {Array.<Object>} formats
+ * @param {string} html5player
+ * @param {Object} options
+ */
+exports.decipherFormats = async(formats, html5player, options) => {
+  let decipheredFormats = {};
+  let functions = await exports.getFunctions(html5player, options);
+  const decipherScript = functions.length ? new vm.Script(functions[0]) : null;
+  const nTransformScript = functions.length > 1 ? new vm.Script(functions[1]) : null;
+  formats.forEach(format => {
+    exports.setDownloadURL(format, decipherScript, nTransformScript);
+    decipheredFormats[format.url] = format;
+  });
+  return decipheredFormats;
+};

package/ytdl-core/lib/url-utils.js

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+/**
+ * Get video ID.
+ *
+ * There are a few type of video URL formats.
+ *  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID
+ *  - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID
+ *  - https://youtu.be/VIDEO_ID
+ *  - https://www.youtube.com/v/VIDEO_ID
+ *  - https://www.youtube.com/embed/VIDEO_ID
+ *  - https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID
+ *  - https://gaming.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID
+ *
+ * @param {string} link
+ * @return {string}
+ * @throws {Error} If unable to find a id
+ * @throws {TypeError} If videoid doesn't match specs
+ */
+const validQueryDomains = new Set([
+  'youtube.com',
+  'www.youtube.com',
+  'm.youtube.com',
+  'music.youtube.com',
+  'gaming.youtube.com',
+]);
+const validPathDomains = /^https?:\/\/(youtu\.be\/|(www\.)?youtube\.com\/(embed|v|shorts)\/)/;
+exports.getURLVideoID = link => {
+  const parsed = new URL(link.trim());
+  let id = parsed.searchParams.get('v');
+  if (validPathDomains.test(link.trim()) && !id) {
+    const paths = parsed.pathname.split('/');
+    id = parsed.host === 'youtu.be' ? paths[1] : paths[2];
+  } else if (parsed.hostname && !validQueryDomains.has(parsed.hostname)) {
+    throw Error('Not a YouTube domain');
+  }
+  if (!id) {
+    throw Error(`No video id found: "${link}"`);
+  }
+  id = id.substring(0, 11);
+  if (!exports.validateID(id)) {
+    throw TypeError(`Video id (${id}) does not match expected ` +
+      `format (${idRegex.toString()})`);
+  }
+  return id;
+};
+
+
+/**
+ * Gets video ID either from a url or by checking if the given string
+ * matches the video ID format.
+ *
+ * @param {string} str
+ * @returns {string}
+ * @throws {Error} If unable to find a id
+ * @throws {TypeError} If videoid doesn't match specs
+ */
+const urlRegex = /^https?:\/\//;
+exports.getVideoID = str => {
+  if (exports.validateID(str)) {
+    return str;
+  } else if (urlRegex.test(str.trim())) {
+    return exports.getURLVideoID(str);
+  } else {
+    throw Error(`No video id found: ${str}`);
+  }
+};
+
+
+/**
+ * Returns true if given id satifies YouTube's id format.
+ *
+ * @param {string} id
+ * @return {boolean}
+ */
+const idRegex = /^[a-zA-Z0-9-_]{11}$/;
+exports.validateID = id => idRegex.test(id.trim());
+
+
+/**
+ * Checks wether the input string includes a valid id.
+ *
+ * @param {string} string
+ * @returns {boolean}
+ */
+exports.validateURL = string => {
+  try {
+    exports.getURLVideoID(string);
+    return true;
+  } catch (e) {
+    return false;
+  }
+};