Upload video and get direct URL for streaming - url

Question

I'd like to upload a video and get direct URL to it (not a YouTube page, just a raw video file on a server). I've read here that youtube-dl can get such a direct link from YT video, but it returned something like this:
https://r5---sn-f5f7ln7s.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id=5e338da1be872622&itag=
140&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&mm=31&pl=17&mn=sn-f5f7ln7s&mv=m&ms=au&ratebypa
ss=yes&mime=audio/mp4&gir=yes&clen=615762&lmt=1444814917264017&dur=38.730&key=dg
_yt0&signature=85FE55338A7ECBCA4895DFA3084A6C8CB7C09654.28AD612266C937BFBBD20135
D03031E824806B53&sver=3&mt=1444818958&fexp=9405191,9408210,9408710,9414764,94154
35,9415868,9416126,9417707,9418199,9418401,9418702,9420439,9420933,9421923,94220
62,9422545&upn=5cQZ5KNCvl0&ip=89.74.115.72&ipbits=0&expire=1444840721&sparams=ip
,ipbits,expire,id,itag,source,requiressl,mm,pl,mn,mv,ms,ratebypass,mime,gir,clen
,lmt,dur
The thing is, it plays but shows nothing (indeed, it opens as a video file). So it looks like YT is somehow protected from such actions.
Do you know any site that allows me to do such thing?
Thanks!

Answer 1

youtube-dl works to download videos from a wide variety of sites, not just YT
youtube-dl -c -l https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT88iVceBn4
Once you have a media file (audio/video) on your server (or your local machine), the following nodejs server will stream it to a URL ...
save below node code into file media_server.js then once you have nodejs installed launch the below code doing
node ./media_server.js
then point your browser at http://localhost:8888/
its a tiny media server which responds to all the standard media navigation widgets ... have fun
var http = require('http'),
fs = require('fs'),
util = require('util');
// var path = "/path/to/audio/or/video/file/local/to/server/cool.mp4"; // put any audio or video file here
var path = "/home/stens/Videos/kehoe/OliverSacks_2009-480p.mp4"; // put any audio or video file here
var port = 8888;
var host = "localhost";
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
var stat = fs.statSync(path);
var total = stat.size;
if (req.headers.range) { // meaning client (browser) has moved the forward/back slider
// which has sent this request back to this server logic ... cool
var range = req.headers.range;
var parts = range.replace(/bytes=/, "").split("-");
var partialstart = parts[0];
var partialend = parts[1];
var start = parseInt(partialstart, 10);
var end = partialend ? parseInt(partialend, 10) : total-1;
var chunksize = (end-start)+1;
console.log('RANGE: ' + start + ' - ' + end + ' = ' + chunksize);
var file = fs.createReadStream(path, {start: start, end: end});
res.writeHead(206, { 'Content-Range': 'bytes ' + start + '-' + end + '/' + total, 'Accept-Ranges': 'bytes', 'Content-Length': chunksize, 'Content-Type': 'video/mp4' });
file.pipe(res);
} else {
console.log('ALL: ' + total);
res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Length': total, 'Content-Type': 'video/mp4' });
fs.createReadStream(path).pipe(res);
}
}).listen(port, host);
console.log("Server running at http://" + host + ":" + port + "/");