From: Andrew Cowan <icculus@...>
Date: 2008-04-04T10:05:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Seeking some guidance with net/http

Hiya Shawn, I did have a look at youtube-g, have the README file open as 
I type this in fact but I don't see anything related to authenticating 
an actual Youtube account, the lib is more for accessing the functions 
that Youtube makes available with just guest access as far as I can 
tell... :(

-Andy


Shawn Anderson wrote:
> You may want to check out:
> http://youtube-g.rubyforge.org/
>
> at least see how they manage the authentication aspect.
>
> /Shawn
>
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Andrew Cowan <icculus@gmdstudios.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Heya, I am attempting to write a script that lets me login to my Youtube
>> account to gather frequent data for the videos I have uploaded, I am
>> stumbling over the Youtube login procedure which seems to involve both
>> cookies and session info. I am able to get this login procedure to work with
>> Perl and LWP::UserAgent but so far using net/http and Ruby I am failing.
>>
>> Here is the code I have been playing with which involves first a POST form
>> submission to youtube's /login script, then the code to follow the
>> redirection back to the /index page -- but looking at the contents returned
>> from /index it appears youtube doesn't recognize me as being logged in:
>>
>> ---
>>
>> # Note: I have added a bunch of puts statements to help debug, leaving
>> them here for this post
>> require 'net/http'
>>
>> http = Net::HTTP.new( 'www.youtube.com', 80 )
>> path = '/login'
>> agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1)
>> Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1'
>>
>> data =
>> 'nexturl=/&current_form=loginForm&action_login=Log+In&username=MY_USER&password=MY_PWD'
>>
>> headers = {
>>  'Referer' => 'http://www.youtube.com/',
>>  'Content-Type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
>>  'User-Agent' => agent
>> }
>>
>> resp, data = http.post( path, data, headers )
>> cookie = resp.response['set-cookie']
>>
>> if ( resp.code =~ /^3/ )
>>  puts "Got Redirect: " + resp['location']
>> end
>>
>> next_loc = resp['location']
>>
>> puts 'Logging In to Set Cookies:'
>> puts 'Code=' + resp.code
>> puts 'Mesg=' + resp.message
>> puts 'Cookie=' + cookie
>> puts 'Next Location=' + next_loc
>> puts 'Data=' + data
>>
>>
>> headers = {
>>  'Cookie' => cookie,
>>  'User-Agent' => agent
>> }
>>
>> resp, data = http.get( next_loc, headers )
>>
>> puts '(should be) Logged In:'
>> puts 'Code=' + resp.code
>> puts 'Mesg=' + resp.message
>> puts 'Data=' + data
>>
>> ---
>>
>> I am unsure what part I am missing which youtube apparently needs to
>> complete its login procedure, I would greatly appreciate any helpful
>> suggestions!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andy
>>
>>
>>     
>
>