account-proxy

YouTube Account Proxy

Note: This is not a part of the browser script!
If you only want to watch age-restricted videos, follow these instructions.

This is the account proxy server to access age-restricted videos via an age-verified or US-located YouTube account. You can run your own account proxy server instance and include the cookies of a YouTube account in the configuration. This allows you to share the account with others to access age-restricted videos.

Installation

1. Install required dependencies with npm install.
2. Create the .env configuration (see below) and paste the required SAPISID and PSID cookies from your YouTube account.

The YouTube account must be verified in order to unlock some age-restricted videos.

3. Start the server with npm run proxy:start or npm start in /account-proxy.

If your account is not age-verified and you don't have an IP from the USA, you might need to use an http(s) proxy located in that region.

.env configuration:

PORT=8089

# Trust X-Forwarded-* headers? set this to 1 if you use a reverse proxy like Nginx with a corresponding configuration.
ENABLE_TRUST_PROXY=0

# Define if you want to collect anonymous usage statistics to monitor the server load
# The statistics can be retrieved via the `/getStats` endpoint in JSON format
ENABLE_STATS=1

# YouTube Config
# API Key is always the same (required)
API_KEY=AIzaSyAO_FJ2SlqU8Q4STEHLGCilw_Y9_11qcW8

# Cookie values (required)
SID=
HSID=
SSID=
APISID=
SAPISID=

# Proxy (https)
# PROXY=

Logging

If you run your own proxy instance then you should respect the privacy of the users and reduce all log activities to a minimum.

Concretely this means:

• Do not log IP Addresses
• Do not log Video-IDs

The account proxy itself does not log any user-related data by default. However, it could be that your reverse proxy is logging the requests (if you use one). For Nginx you can disable the log functionality as follows: https://thisinterestsme.com/disable-nginx-access-log/