How to play Youtube video in ExoPlayer in Android?

Question

I am trying to play youtube video in exoplayer but here is some confusion I don\'t know what is DASH url, I have only real youtube url like \"https://www.youtube.com/watch

Answer 1

I had the same issue but i finally found the simplest solution and its working so good

1. First you need to call this url..

   HTTP GET: https://www.youtube.com/get_video_info?&video_id=[video_id]&el=info&ps=default&eurl=&gl=US&hl=en

and don't forget to change the last id with the target one.

2. now you will get notice to download a file called get_video_info with no extesion.
3. try to open this file using notepad and so.
4. Now you have the right data but you can't read it because its encoded You need HTML decoder to reed this data use this one: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/

-just paste your data and press decode a several times to ensure it decoded well

finally search for a key called dashmpd

and enjoy ur URL

Or use this Simple Solution

private void extractYoutubeUrl() {
    @SuppressLint("StaticFieldLeak") YouTubeExtractor mExtractor = new YouTubeExtractor(this) {
        @Override
        protected void onExtractionComplete(SparseArray sparseArray, VideoMeta videoMeta) {
            if (sparseArray != null) {
                playVideo(sparseArray.get(17).getUrl());
            }
        }
    };
    mExtractor.extract(mYoutubeLink, true, true);

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implementation 'com.github.HaarigerHarald:android-youtubeExtractor:v1.7.0'