Add custom parameters to URL requests or session cookies

[pupkinvaska]

Are there options to add custom parameters to URL requests or session cookies? I need to set youtube preferences such as language or country. Without them i can't scrape comments of some YT videos which are blocked in my country

[philbot9]

Hey there,

Can you give me an example of what preferences you would like to set? What should the URL look like in that case?

Thanks!

[pupkinvaska]

I can click on user pic or "3 dots" if not logged in -> Location, and choose any country. This way I can access videos that YouTube does not allow to play in my country.
The same thing I can set up via the URL parameter &gl=AU (for example, AU for Australia) appending it to any Youtube request.
Or via the cookie: PREF="gl=AU"
This cookie to set up country & switch interface language to English: PREF="gl=AU&hl=en"
Language code "hl=en" to localize "time" strings such as "3 months ago" to the desired language in the Scraper's output .

[pupkinvaska]

As a temporary solution I modified the file:
youtube-comment-scraper-cli/node_modules/youtube-comments-task/dist/lib/youtube-api/url-builder.js
To the string return VIDEO_PAGE_URL + '?' + query;
I added +'&gl=AU';
Now it works.