How to get redirector.googlevideo.com link from a Google drive video
I have a google drive video file (like https://drive.google.com/file/d/FILE_ID/view) and I want to get its redirector.googlevideo.com link.
How do sites like http://api.getlinkdrive.com/ do it? I've tried using the Google Drive REST API, (both v2 and v3) but still can't find a way to do it. Many tv-show and movie sites host their content on google drive, and use this "cloaked" URL that expires so you can't for example embed it somewhere else.
The closest I've gotten is by going to docs.google.com/get_video_info?docid=FILE_ID and getting the fmt_stream_map links, but that doesn't return the redirector link which I need.
Answer
Php code will not work here and even meaningless, because it will return the result for server side.
This is my Javascript/Ajax code. Unfortunately, you should use Access-Control-Allow-Origin extension in Chrome browser. First, please see this screenshot of console window.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.min.js" integrity="sha256-hwg4gsxgFZhOsEEamdOYGBf13FyQuiTwlAQgxVSNgt4=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<script src="https://content.jwplatform.com/libraries/YOUR-JW-PLAYER-LICENSE-KEY.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<p id="urls"></p>
<div id="myElement"></div>
</body>
<script>
var docid = "0B4Mn0g4wWmQ1ZThycVhOcDJQc2c";
var api_url = "https://docs.google.com/get_video_info";
var ans = {};
var url = "";
getGoogleVideoUrl();
function getGoogleVideoUrl(){
$.ajax({
url: api_url,
type: "get",
data: {
docid: docid,
},
success: function(response) {
//
// get value of which key is 'fmt_stream_map'.
//
var fmt_stream_map = getQueryVariable(response, 'fmt_stream_map');
//
// split my comma
//
var maps = fmt_stream_map.split("%2C");
//
// loop all links,
//
var purl = "";
for (x in maps) {
var res = decodeURIComponent(decodeURIComponent(maps[x])).split('|');
// purl = res[1].replace(new RegExp("/\/[^\/]+\.google\.com/", 'g'),"//redirector.googlevideo.com/");
// purl = res[1].replace(new RegExp("\.google\.com/", 'g'),".googlevideo.com/");
purl = res[1];
//.replace(/.c.docs.google.com/g,".googlevideo.com")
//.replace(/app=explorer/g,"app=storage")
//.replace(/key=ck2/g,"key=cms1")
//.replace(/&cp=/g,"&api=")
//.replace(/,cp&/g,',api&')
//.replace(/,cp,/g,',api,')
//.replace(/=cp,/g,'=api,')
//.replace(/&sparams=/g,'&cms_redirect=yes&sparams=');
switch (parseInt(res[0])) {
case 5:
quality = 'Low Quality, 240p, FLV, 400x240';
break;
case 17:
quality = 'Low Quality, 144p, 3GP, 0x0';
break;
case 18:
quality = 'Medium Quality, 360p, MP4, 480x360';
break;
case 22:
quality = 'High Quality, 720p, MP4, 1280x720';
break;
case 34:
quality = 'Medium Quality, 360p, FLV, 640x360';
break;
case 35:
quality = 'Standard Definition, 480p, FLV, 854x480';
break;
case 36:
quality = 'Low Quality, 240p, 3GP, 0x0';
break;
case 37:
quality = 'Full High Quality, 1080p, MP4, 1920x1080';
break;
case 38:
quality = 'Original Definition, MP4, 4096x3072';
break;
case 43:
quality = 'Medium Quality, 360p, WebM, 640x360';
break;
case 44:
quality = 'Standard Definition, 480p, WebM, 854x480';
break;
case 45:
quality = 'High Quality, 720p, WebM, 1280x720';
break;
case 46:
quality = 'Full High Quality, 1080p, WebM, 1280x720';
break;
case 82:
quality = 'Medium Quality 3D, 360p, MP4, 640x360';
break;
case 84:
quality = 'High Quality 3D, 720p, MP4, 1280x720';
break;
case 102:
quality = 'Medium Quality 3D, 360p, WebM, 640x360';
break;
case 104:
quality = 'High Quality 3D, 720p, WebM, 1280x720';
break;
default:
quality = 'transcoded (unknown) quality';
break;
}
ans[quality] = purl;
}
console.log(ans);
$('#urls').html(JSON.stringify(ans));
url = ans[Object.keys(ans)[0]];
build_player();
},
error: function(xhr) {
//Do Something to handle error
}
});
}
function build_player(){
var playerInstance = jwplayer("myElement");
playerInstance.setup({
file: url,
type: "mp4",
width: 800 ,
height: 600,
});
}
function getQueryVariable(query, variable) {
var vars = query.split('&');
for (var i = 0; i < vars.length; i++) {
var pair = vars[i].split('=');
if (decodeURIComponent(pair[0]) == variable) {
//return decodeURIComponent(pair[1]);
return pair[1];
}
}
console.log('Query variable %s not found', variable);
return "";
}
</script>
</html>
This code works basically, but doesn't play in jwplayer component.
However, if you enter this URL, "https://docs.google.com/get_video_info?docid=0B4Mn0g4wWmQ1ZThycVhOcDJQc2c", directly in chrome browser, get JSON file , parse it manually, use one of URLs directly in this code as jwplayer's file url, it works perfectly, although it contains "app=explorer" tag in itself.
I'm not sure why this happens. So I tried to compare 2 links and some parameters is different. The first one is from above code and not working, the 2nd JSON file directly and working.)
ei=hJ5yWaHCKYXb-wWona2YBA
ei=KZ5yWZSkK4aFqgXAwpoo
susci=o-AC34EOoA1Wst0Heh0U_bP9epqR8K9s4UBhwlqmsxKZKwAOA
susci=o-AH82qbGL8BcWQ3BPybbvZyuNBiDd2Uasz4J0ZNXJCZwobPje
expire=1500698308
expire=1500698217
cp=QVNFUkdfV1NOSVhOOnhwOWFybUloWXNX
cp=QVNFUkdfV1JPSFhOOmpURGRUeUt3eVpv
signature=3D306FD9D9ADA683D313AABDFE057B608A6F2A39.8BB3A9C321B6BEAC8D1D5AEED2F25511DF97CE2B
signature=2C2465BDFC4D9CCFD0D4A42F38BAEF44D55AFDF1.A916937113445ABB90D18B3AE89600729CFADDE6
Why first one is not working while 2nd is working? Any idea of this?