fixing findFormat, make it actually make sure the thing its downloading is downloadable...

index.js

@@ -133,8 +133,15 @@ app.ws('/download/:id/:quality', async (ws, req) => {
     quality: req.params.quality,
     type: 'video'
   }
-  const videoFormat = info.chooseFormat(videoOptions)
-  const videoStream = await info.download(videoOptions)
+  const videoFormat = chooseFormat(videoOptions, info['streaming_data'])
+  if (!videoFormat) {
+    ws.send('No matching formats found... Please try again later.')
+    return ws.close()
+  }
+
+  const videoStream = await info.download({
+    itag: videoFormat.itag
+  })
   const videoWriteStream = fs.createWriteStream(`./output/${req.params.id}_video.mp4`)
 
   let videoTotal = videoFormat.content_length;
@@ -234,6 +241,76 @@ function mergeIt(audioPath, videoPath, outputPath) {
   });
 }
 
+// stolen straight from youtubei.js
+function chooseFormat(options, streaming_data) {
+  if (!streaming_data) return null
+
+  const formats = [
+    ...(streaming_data.formats || []),
+    ...(streaming_data.adaptive_formats || [])
+  ];
+  
+  if (options.itag) {
+    const candidates = formats.filter((format) => format.itag === options.itag);
+    if (!candidates.length) return null
+    return candidates[0];
+  }
+
+  const requires_audio = options.type ? options.type.includes('audio') : true;
+  const requires_video = options.type ? options.type.includes('video') : true;
+  const language = options.language || 'original';
+  const quality = options.quality || 'best';
+
+  let best_width = -1;
+
+  const is_best = [ 'best', 'bestefficiency' ].includes(quality);
+  const use_most_efficient = quality !== 'best';
+
+  let candidates = formats.filter((format) => {
+    if (requires_audio && !format.has_audio)
+      return false;
+    if (requires_video && !format.has_video)
+      return false;
+    if (options.codec && !format.mime_type.includes(options.codec))
+      return false;
+    if (options.format !== 'any' && !format.mime_type.includes(options.format || 'mp4'))
+      return false;
+    if (!is_best && format.quality_label !== quality)
+      return false;
+    if (format.width && (best_width < format.width))
+      best_width = format.width;
+    return true;
+  });
+
+  if (!candidates.length) return null
+
+  if (is_best && requires_video)
+    candidates = candidates.filter((format) => format.width === best_width);
+
+  if (requires_audio && !requires_video) {
+    const audio_only = candidates.filter((format) => {
+      if (language !== 'original') {
+        return !format.has_video && !format.has_text && format.language === language;
+      }
+      return !format.has_video && !format.has_text && format.is_original;
+
+    });
+    if (audio_only.length > 0) {
+      candidates = audio_only;
+    }
+  }
+
+  if (use_most_efficient) {
+    // Sort by bitrate (lower is better)
+    candidates.sort((a, b) => a.bitrate - b.bitrate);
+  } else {
+    // Sort by bitrate (higher is better)
+    candidates.sort((a, b) => b.bitrate - a.bitrate);
+  }
+
+  return candidates.filter(v => v.content_length)[0];
+}
+
 async function switchIps() {
   const currentIp = await (await fetch('http://localhost:8000/v1/publicip/ip', {
     headers: {

package.json

@@ -9,6 +9,6 @@
     "express-ws": "^5.0.2",
     "ffmpeg-static": "^5.2.0",
     "fluent-ffmpeg": "^2.1.3",
-    "youtubei.js": "^13.0.0"
+    "youtubei.js": "^13.1.0"
   }
 }

yarn.lock

@@ -393,10 +393,10 @@ isexe@^2.0.0:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/isexe/-/isexe-2.0.0.tgz#e8fbf374dc556ff8947a10dcb0572d633f2cfa10"
   integrity sha512-RHxMLp9lnKHGHRng9QFhRCMbYAcVpn69smSGcq3f36xjgVVWThj4qqLbTLlq7Ssj8B+fIQ1EuCEGI2lKsyQeIw==
 
-jintr@^3.2.0:
-  version "3.2.0"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/jintr/-/jintr-3.2.0.tgz#38bfc2311c7ed4412ebe0bfc5c2e700f8f433921"
-  integrity sha512-psD1yf05kMKDNsUdW1l5YhO59pHScQ6OIHHb8W5SKSM2dCOFPsqolmIuSHgVA8+3Dc47NJR181CXZ4alCAPTkA==
+jintr@^3.2.1:
+  version "3.2.1"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/jintr/-/jintr-3.2.1.tgz#ea6719485c9ff5f14ca7f9131990040d4fdfe1be"
+  integrity sha512-yjKUBuwTTg4nc4izMysxuIk0BKh45hnbc1KnXE6LxagIGZn5od+I2elpuRY9IIm3EiKiUZxhxV89a0iX+xoEZg==
   dependencies:
     acorn "^8.8.0"
 
@@ -663,12 +663,12 @@ ws@^7.4.6:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/ws/-/ws-7.5.10.tgz#58b5c20dc281633f6c19113f39b349bd8bd558d9"
   integrity sha512-+dbF1tHwZpXcbOJdVOkzLDxZP1ailvSxM6ZweXTegylPny803bFhA+vqBYw4s31NSAk4S2Qz+AKXK9a4wkdjcQ==
 
-youtubei.js@^13.0.0:
-  version "13.0.0"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/youtubei.js/-/youtubei.js-13.0.0.tgz#f036bc6f5cb9ef8bd73da7e1079a2b70776bb2f7"
-  integrity sha512-b1QkN9bfgphK+5tI4qteSK54kNxmPhoedvMw0jl4uSn+L8gbDbJ4z52amNuYNcOdp4X/SI3JuUb+f5V0DPJ8Vw==
+youtubei.js@^13.1.0:
+  version "13.1.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/youtubei.js/-/youtubei.js-13.1.0.tgz#1e15da01e58c782ab6fb7cc9191a1c99f821c57f"
+  integrity sha512-uL4TyojAYET0c5NGFD7+ScCod/k8Pc/B+D5tLrunFcz1GaBjRMOGRPcNGaRmnhwisegU7ibtw0iUxCN+BZ0ang==
   dependencies:
     "@bufbuild/protobuf" "^2.0.0"
-    jintr "^3.2.0"
+    jintr "^3.2.1"
     tslib "^2.5.0"
     undici "^5.19.1"