I am trying to fetch video details as JSON using PHP exec()
I have youtube-dl
installed on my CentOS server.
Running youtube-dl -J <VideoURL>
via SSH
/Terminal
just works fine.
My test.php
script returns empty page 🙁
echo exec("youtube-dl -J <VideoURL>"); //Installed via pip //OR echo exec("python /home/site/youtube-dl -J <VideoURL>"); //Downloaded as file named youtube-dl
exec
is enabled if I test it like:
if(function_exists('exec')) { echo "exec is enabled"; }
IP
of server is not blocked by YouTube as i am able to successfully run command via terminal
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Answer
I was able to achieve what you are by doing the following in my test.php
file
<?php if(function_exists('shell_exec')) { header('Content-Type: application/json'); echo shell_exec("youtube-dl -J https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGDzdps75ns"); } ?>