Comment Comment by SuperCuber Looks interesting. In the post, the author does echo -n '{"videoId":"aqz-KE-bpKQ","context":{"client":{"clientName":"WEB","clientVersion":"2.20230810.05.00"}}}' | http post 'https://www.youtube.com/youtubei/v1/player' | jq -r '.streamingData.adaptiveFormats[0].url' which is very similar to what you do, but runs into an issue of throttling to ~70Kbps. Is the difference just the "key" parameter? Do you get no throttling? parent SuperCuber 3 years ago