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youtube-po-token-generator

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It generates a valid poToken with visitorData fetched from YouTube.

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- cli.mjs
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- one-shot.js
- consts.js
- inject.js
- task.d.ts
- task.js
- utils.js
- workflow.d.ts
- workflow.js
- base.js
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- README.md
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# Installation Guide

1. Get the code

git clone https://github.com/YunzheZJU/youtube-po-token-generator

Downloads the entire project code from GitHub to your computer.

cd youtube-po-token-generator

Moves into the project folder you just downloaded.

2. Official Install Script

Easy Recommended

Prerequisites

Node.js Node.js must be installed to use npm.

npm install -g youtube-po-token-generator

Installs the package published on the npm registry globally — no need to clone the source.

✅ After installing, open a new terminal and run the program's version command (e.g. --version) to confirm it worked.

Pulled directly from this repo's README.

3. Node.js

Easy

Prerequisites

Git Needed to download the project code from GitHub.
Node.js Node.js must be installed to use npm. The LTS version is recommended.

npm install -g youtube-po-token-generator

Installs the package published on the npm registry globally — no need to clone the source.

cd youtube-po-token-generator && yarn

Moves into the project folder you just downloaded.

✅ After running the command, open the address shown in the terminal (usually something like http://localhost:3000) in your browser.

Pulled directly from this repo's README.

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# YouTube PoToken Generator

## Introduction

This program outputs the mysterious pair `{ visitorData, poToken }`, with the help of `jsdom`.

## How does it work

Only one network request is made to get a fresh copy of `visitorData`.

Then `poToken` is generated with pre-downloaded scripts from YouTube and some magic provided in `lib/inject.js`

No real browser is required to install.

## How to use it from another language or command line

```bash
# Install NodeJS >= 18.0 and issue the folling command to install this tool
npm install -g youtube-po-token-generator

# Execute the following command somewhere in your program or directly in a shell
youtube-po-token-generator
# => {"visitorData":"...","poToken":"..."}
# A string of JSON format would be printed to stdout, parse and use it as you like
```

Define proxy settings before you run the program If you are in the case that typically a proxy is needed to access YouTube.

```bash
export HTTPS_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:8888
# For Windows users
# set HTTPS_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:8888

youtube-po-token-generator
```

## How to use it in your JavaScript code

```bash
# Clone this repo and install dependencies
cd youtube-po-token-generator && yarn
# Or issue `npm install` instead of `yarn`, alternatively
```

`generate` is exported as the primary entry to execute the program.

```javascript
const { generate } = require('youtube-po-token-generator')

generate().then(console.log, console.error)
// => { visitorData: '...', poToken: '...' }
```

Require `lib/task` directly if you have already prepared your `visitorData`.

```javascript
const { createTask } = require('youtube-po-token-generator/lib/task')

const visitorData = '...'

createTask(visitorData).then(task => task.start()).then(console.log, console.error)
// => { poToken: '...' }
```

Inspect `examples` and `bin/cli.mjs` for simple examples.

## Related works

This project is inspired by [iv-org/youtube-trusted-session-generator](https://github.com/iv-org/youtube-trusted-session-generator).

## What is a PoToken and when to use it

Please refer to the excellent explanation [here](https://github.com/LuanRT/BgUtils?tab=readme-ov-file#when-to-use-a-po-token).

## More

Debugging the source code from YouTube was a pain.

* Pausing at key parts of the `poToken` generation may lead to misleading branches.

* Modification on the injected code from `botguardData.program` may lead to invalid tokens.

* Improper userAgent would lead to valid or invalid poToken being generated randomly, like a lottery.