From: Joseph Nuthalapati <njoseph@riseup.net>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 16:20:28 +0000 (+0530)
Subject: Add fake user-agent
X-Git-Tag: 0.8.3~1
X-Git-Url: https://njoseph.me/gitweb/nimcoon.git/commitdiff_plain/eacdf44b2d4a4a0b603f0b4f949430f81ecd711b

Add fake user-agent

Signed-off-by: Joseph Nuthalapati <njoseph@riseup.net>
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diff --git a/src/config.nim b/src/config.nim
index aa6afd9..7c4b6d9 100644
--- a/src/config.nim
+++ b/src/config.nim
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ let rewriteInvidiousURLs* = true
 # Invidious instance for querying
 # This instance should have a valid public API
 # Check like this: curl https://invidious.xyz/api/v1/search\?q\=cats
-let invidiousInstance* = "https://invidious.tube"
+let invidiousInstance* = "https://invidious.snopyta.org"
 
 discard """"
 Configuration goes through three levels of overrides:
diff --git a/src/youtube.nim b/src/youtube.nim
index a07a629..e293f75 100644
--- a/src/youtube.nim
+++ b/src/youtube.nim
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ proc getSearchResults*(searchQuery: string): SearchResults =
   # Using Invidious API to retrieve the search results but playing the results directly from YouTube.
   let queryParam = encodeUrl(searchQuery)
   let client = newHttpClient()
+  client.headers = newHttpHeaders({"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36"})
   let response = get(client, &"{invidiousInstance}/api/v1/search?q={queryParam}")
   let jsonData = parseJson($response.body)
   if jsonData.kind == JObject: # Could be a 403 error