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for example, here is a video that is blocked in every country:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUOzJt8H3Y4

how come this site:https://www.youtube2mp3.cc/ can get/download its audio track in mp3, but cant get/download the video in mp4? whats the difference?

youtube-mp3.org can also get its audio

also tried youtube-dl but didnt work (only tried the plain command)

is there any way to get the video when its blocked, not just the audio? i guessed the audio and video werent separated, but this shows otherwise

EDIT:tried youtube-dl with the --get-url option too, returned the same error youtube does in the browser

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  • So, you ckecked for every country that this video is blocked? How Did you do that?
    – user460895
    Nov 26, 2015 at 19:56
  • no, i searched for "regionsAllowed" in the html of the page. i was wrong though, its not blocked in every country. my browser displayed it wrong i guess, it listed the countries from A to Z, as if those were what were in fact blocked, not allowed. now this browser displays what are actually allowed, and they are: "BL,GG,GS,IM,JE,ME,MF,PS,SS" Dec 1, 2015 at 19:28

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I doubt you can view or download a globally blocked video. The MP3 sites probably have the audio cached from a previous request, before it was blocked.

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  • i doubt it though. you can try with the videos here for example: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65DB5C35359533A1 i didnt try it with any of them. the youtube2mp3 site also says this in the "Service" menu item: In opposition to other website you are able to download videos which are not available or blocked in your country - please note, you can only download videos which haven't been deleted. Dec 1, 2015 at 19:30
  • and sorry for the late reply Dec 1, 2015 at 19:34
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There are a couple of possible answers - the first is that this was cached by the site prior to it being deleted - and indeed, when I tried it it was available immediately which would imply to me that is most probably the case - as I'd expect downloading and converting it to MP3 to take a noticeable amount of time.

From some researching, I believe that the video has not been "blocked in every country", but rather has been blocked in most places. Googling here showed that this video is not blocked in Sudan !!! It is conceivable that the player downloaded it through a proxy in Sudan (or may from an IP not in a GEOIP list).

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  • i doubt it was cached, but the site also claims to be able to download blocked videos, under the "Service" menu. youtube2mp3.cc/service i was probably wrong about it being blocked everywhere though. i checked the "regionsAllowed" metatag, or what it is, on the youtube page. on my other browser, it listed all the countries from A to Z, or at least i thought so, so i thought it works the opposite way than on this browser, where it only has these:"BL,GG,GS,IM,JE,ME,MF,PS,SS" SS probably means south sudan, but then the other regions should be allowed too. and sorry for the late reply. Dec 1, 2015 at 19:40

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