Beyond WKS-KEYS

[rafaelscs]

Angela you can me help?

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

Angela you can me help?

Don't tell me .... er..? er.. You're working your way through college and if I just buy six tea-towels from you, you'll have enough to eat this week?

Or are you in fact a Prince from Nigeria who needs help getting money out of the country? And if I give you my bank details you'll wire me 12 Million US Dollars to bank for you - and in gratitude you'll let me keep 10%? Sure!

[senkron24]

Should this perhaps be marked as Sticky Threads?

Did you really need to re-post the entire message in post #1?

I could just link to Beyond WKS-KEYS in one of the existing stickies.
Now keydive exists, there is a good case for updating the CDM recovery method as well.

I was falling off my chair laughing while reading this.
A very interesting enecdote
I love your outbursts like this

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

I love your outbursts like this

I think the rule is - don't ever take me too seriously!

[Kadio]

Why don't developers still use blob keyfiles and wvd files?

pywidevine is quite troublesome if I install it - other scripts stop working for me

[2nHxWW6GkN1l916N3ayz8HQoi]

pywidevine is quite troublesome if I install it - other scripts stop working for me

Use virtual environments.

[Hackerpcs]

I'm trying to get keys from here

https://www.ertflix.gr/epg/channel/ept1-live

which has a generic mpd and license server URL

https://ertflix.s.llnwi.net/ertlive/ert1/encdef/index.mpd

https://ertflix.la.drm.cloud/acquire-license/widevine

I have trouble I think getting the PSSH value. EME logger has this response

[EME] (CALL) MediaKeySession::generateRequest
Session ID: (not available)
Init Data Type: cenc
Init Data: 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

following this guide
https://cdm-project.com/How-To/Obtaining-PSSH
I get two "70737368" results and not sure which one is the correct one.

I modified the l3.py in this post a bit, it contains also the header data. CDM is my own from a real rooted phone and does work on a other simpler widevine sites with a plaintext PSSH in mpd. Any ideas?

from pywidevine.cdm import Cdm
from pywidevine.device import Device
from pywidevine.pssh import PSSH
import requests
#
# enter special header values here  in the form  'token':  ' value',   each on one line -  remember the quotes and the comma!
headers = {
	"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:127.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/127.0",
	"Accept": "*/*",
	"Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.5",
	"Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br, zstd",
	"drmchallengecustomdata": "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",
	"Origin": "https://www.ertflix.gr",
	"DNT": "1",
	"Sec-GPC": "1",
	"Connection": "keep-alive",
	"Sec-Fetch-Dest": "empty",
	"Sec-Fetch-Mode": "cors",
	"Sec-Fetch-Site": "cross-site",
	"Priority": "u=4",
	"TE": "trailers",
	"Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
}

# prepare pssh
# pssh = input("PSSH? ")
# pssh = PSSH(pssh)
pssh = PSSH("AAAAfoobar")
lic_url = "https://ertflix.la.drm.cloud/acquire-license/widevine"

# load device
# for example
#device = Device.load(r"/home/angela/Programming/WKS-KEYS/pywidevine/L3/cdm/devices/emulator_1/WVD/google_aosp_on_ia_emulator_14.0.0_xxxxxc_4464_l3.wvd")
device = Device.load(r"mycdm.wvd")

# load cdm
cdm = Cdm.from_device(device)

# open cdm session
session_id = cdm.open()

# get license challenge
challenge = cdm.get_license_challenge(session_id, pssh)

# send license challenge (assuming a generic license server SDK with no API front)
licence = requests.post(lic_url, headers = headers, data=challenge)
licence.raise_for_status()

# parse license challenge
cdm.parse_license(session_id, licence.content)

# print keys
for key in cdm.get_keys(session_id):

    if key.type=='CONTENT':
        print(f"\n--key {key.kid.hex}:{key.key.hex()}")

# close session, disposes of session data
cdm.close(session_id)

[aqzs]

I'm trying to get keys from here

https://www.ertflix.gr/epg/audition/prg.421913-ept1-live-3961199

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

I'm getting 404 when I try to play this live.. Maybe geo restricted ? (Indeed geo restricted to grece)

Here is the widevine pssh :

AAAAY3Bzc2gAAAAA7e+LqXnWSs6jyCfc1R0h7QAAAEMIARIQNw4LQqRoUpWMq+4a2w6T3BoFaW5zeXMiJDM3MGUwYjQyLWE0NjgtNTI5NS04Y2FiLWVlMWFkYjBlOTNkYzIA

Try to use : https://emarsden.github.io/pssh-box-wasm/decode/

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

I'm trying to get keys from here

https://www.ertflix.gr/epg/audition/prg.421913-ept1-live-3961199

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

I'm getting 404 when I try to play this live.. Maybe geo restricted ?

Here is the widevine pssh :

AAAAY3Bzc2gAAAAA7e+LqXnWSs6jyCfc1R0h7QAAAEMIARIQNw4LQqRoUpWMq+4a2w6T3BoFaW5zeXMiJDM3MGUwYjQyLWE0NjgtNTI5NS04Y2FiLWVlMWFkYjBlOTNkYzIA

Try to use : https://emarsden.github.io/pssh-box-wasm/decode/

Try this https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/407216-Decryption-The-Dungeon-of-Despair#post2669285 it gets everything. Edit for your CDM near the top. Although if you get a 404 in a browser nothing can work. Use a VPN.


Edit: er, hang on. 404 means not found - have you the correct link?

[aqzs]

I tried with : https://www.ertflix.gr/epg/audition/prg.421914-ept1-live-3961309

mpd :

https://ertflix.s.llnwi.net/ertlive/ert1/encdef/index.mpd

pssh (obtained from keyid = '370E0B42-A468-5295-8CAB-EE1ADB0E93DC') :

AAAAMnBzc2gAAAAA7e+LqXnWSs6jyCfc1R0h7QAAABISEDcOC0KkaFKVjKvuGtsOk9w=

from pywidevine.cdm import Cdm
from pywidevine.device import Device
from pywidevine.pssh import PSSH
import requests
from uuid import UUID

CUSTOMDATA = ''

headers = {
    'accept': '*/*',
    'accept-language': 'fr-FR,fr;q=0.9',
    'cache-control': 'no-cache',
    'drmchallengecustomdata': CUSTOMDATA,
    'origin': 'https://www.ertflix.gr',
    'pragma': 'no-cache',
    'priority': 'u=1, i',
    'referer': 'https://www.ertflix.gr/',
    'sec-ch-ua': '"Brave";v="125", "Chromium";v="125", "Not.A/Brand";v="24"',
    'sec-ch-ua-mobile': '?0',
    'sec-ch-ua-platform': '"macOS"',
    'sec-fetch-dest': 'empty',
    'sec-fetch-mode': 'cors',
    'sec-fetch-site': 'cross-site',
    'sec-gpc': '1',
    'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36',
}

pssh = input('pssh: ')
pssh = PSSH(pssh)
lic_url = 'https://ertflix.la.drm.cloud/acquire-license/widevine'

device = Device.load(r"/Users/noham/Documents/GitHub/DRM-remover/TOOLS/WVD/xiaomi_redmi_5_plus_v5.1.0-android_701ec55d_4445_l3.wvd")
cdm = Cdm.from_device(device)
session_id = cdm.open()
challenge = cdm.get_license_challenge(session_id, pssh)
licence = requests.post(lic_url, headers = headers, data=challenge)
licence.raise_for_status()
cdm.parse_license(session_id, licence.content)
for key in cdm.get_keys(session_id):
    if key.type=='CONTENT':
        print(f"\n--key {key.kid.hex}:{key.key.hex()}")
cdm.close(session_id)

key :

370e0b42a46852958cabee1adb0e93dc:658649140edf4e1063887d588d2c46c4

You have to fill custom data.

[aqzs]

Although if you get a 404 in a browser nothing can work. Use a VPN.
Edit: er, hang on. 404 means not found - have you the correct link?

You replied the wrong guy ^^
Btw : 'X-Forwarded-For' : '185.226.64.254' bypass geo restrictions

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

Although if you get a 404 in a browser nothing can work. Use a VPN.
Edit: er, hang on. 404 means not found - have you the correct link?

You replied the wrong guy ^^
Btw : 'X-Forwarded-For' : '185.226.64.254' bypass geo restrictions

Sorry! I'll get my coat!...

[Hackerpcs]

Try this https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/407216-Decryption-The-Dungeon-of-Despair#post2669285 it gets everything. Edit for your CDM near the top.

This worked wonders, great work!

The code is a bit hard to read and I would like to modify it: I have a shell script that runs downey (that can't get keys from KID) to get keys from a simple MPD with plaintext PSSH (I extract it with sed etc from the MPD and feed it to downey with --pssh), would it be possible to modify the script to make it shell script friendly? Avoid the interface and take two arguments (not input, just arguments when the python file runs), mpd and curl and just print the key, similar to how downey works. I ask for this because after the key I download with n-m3u8dl-re and make some other actions with mkvmerge I want on my script afterwards

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

Try this https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/407216-Decryption-The-Dungeon-of-Despair#post2669285 it gets everything. Edit for your CDM near the top.

This worked wonders, great work!

The code is a bit hard to read and I would like to modify it: I have a shell script that runs downey (that can't get keys from KID) to get keys from a simple MPD with plaintext PSSH (I extract it with sed etc from the MPD and feed it to downey with --pssh), would it be possible to modify the script to make it shell script friendly? Avoid the interface and take two arguments (not input, just arguments when the python file runs), mpd and curl and just print the key, similar to how downey works. I ask for this because after the key I download with n-m3u8dl-re and make some other actions with mkvmerge I want on my script afterwards

Unfortunately I don't do requests but I do encourage you to adapt the script yourself. That post is a python script and is shell friendly. You can add an arg parser easily if you want. But beware if it involves pasting a cURL as an agument it won't work. There can be characters in cURL which corrupt the display and play havoc with the terminal.
Note there a halt at the end before download precisely for you to take the base N_m3u8DL-RE command (with keys already found) and do what you wish with mkvmerge or load subtitles from file or knit socks or whatever else.
I think that copes with most use-cases.

I'm glad you find it useful. Good luck.

[aqzs]

The code is a bit hard to read and I would like to modify it: I have a shell script that runs downey (that can't get keys from KID) to get keys from a simple MPD with plaintext PSSH (I extract it with sed etc from the MPD and feed it to downey with --pssh), would it be possible to modify the script to make it shell script friendly? Avoid the interface and take two arguments (not input, just arguments when the python file runs), mpd and curl and just print the key, similar to how downey works. I ask for this because after the key I download with n-m3u8dl-re and make some other actions with mkvmerge I want on my script afterwards

The script I posted here is smaller and works fine. https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/411862-Beyond-WKS-KEYS/page4#post2739490

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

The code is a bit hard to read and I would like to modify it: I have a shell script that runs downey (that can't get keys from KID) to get keys from a simple MPD with plaintext PSSH (I extract it with sed etc from the MPD and feed it to downey with --pssh), would it be possible to modify the script to make it shell script friendly? Avoid the interface and take two arguments (not input, just arguments when the python file runs), mpd and curl and just print the key, similar to how downey works. I ask for this because after the key I download with n-m3u8dl-re and make some other actions with mkvmerge I want on my script afterwards

The script I posted here is smaller and works fine. https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/411862-Beyond-WKS-KEYS/page4#post2739490

But with respect that is just a single specific site downloader and is not what we are dealing with here.

[Hackerpcs]

The code is a bit hard to read and I would like to modify it: I have a shell script that runs downey (that can't get keys from KID) to get keys from a simple MPD with plaintext PSSH (I extract it with sed etc from the MPD and feed it to downey with --pssh), would it be possible to modify the script to make it shell script friendly? Avoid the interface and take two arguments (not input, just arguments when the python file runs), mpd and curl and just print the key, similar to how downey works. I ask for this because after the key I download with n-m3u8dl-re and make some other actions with mkvmerge I want on my script afterwards

The script I posted here is smaller and works fine. https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/411862-Beyond-WKS-KEYS/page4#post2739490

As I'm seeing it's the same script from the first post and the same I've used that didn't work, what changed are the headers (same drm custom data on both) which mine are wrong and produce http 400 bad request.

My question is how did you obtain the PSSH here considering the big "Init Data" response of EME logger

mpd :

https://ertflix.s.llnwi.net/ertlive/ert1/encdef/index.mpd

pssh (obtained from keyid = '370E0B42-A468-5295-8CAB-EE1ADB0E93DC') :

AAAAMnBzc2gAAAAA7e+LqXnWSs6jyCfc1R0h7QAAABISEDcOC0KkaFKVjKvuGtsOk9w=

and also how does hell3.py obtain a different PSSH, yet both result in the same correct key

MPD URL? https://ertflix.s.llnwi.net/ertlive/ert1/encdef/index.mpd
Found default_KID using regex: 370E0B42-A468-5295-8CAB-EE1ADB0E93DC
Extracted or generated PSSH: AAAAOHBzc2gAAAAA7e+LqXnWSs6jyCfc1R0h7QAAABgSEDcOC0 KkaFKVjKvuGtsOk9xI49yVmwY=

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

and also how does hell3.py obtain a different PSSH, yet both result in the same correct key

That is often the case with pssh generation. Proof of the pudding... is that hell3.py always seems to work. Mainly CDNs just check for the Kid in the pssh. So everything passes. If a CDN gets picky and tries to make sure it is its own issued pssh, some generators, producing a short version, will fail.

I was using this for pssh generation and it is common.

elif default_kid is not None:
            # Generate pssh from default_kid
            default_kid = default_kid.replace('-', '')
            default_kid_bytes = binascii.unhexlify(default_kid)

            # Widevine PSSH box structure
            pssh_data = b'\x00\x00\x00\x00'  # Size placeholder
            pssh_data += b'\x70\x73\x73\x68'  # 'pssh' box type
            pssh_data += b'\x00\x00\x00\x00'  # Version and flags
            pssh_data += binascii.unhexlify(WIDEVINE_SYSTEM_ID.replace('-', ''))  # Widevine system ID
            pssh_data += b'\x00\x00\x00\x01'  # KID count
            pssh_data += default_kid_bytes  # default_KID
            pssh_data += b'\x00\x00\x00\x00'  # Size of Data (0 for KID-only PSSH)

            # Update size
            pssh_size = len(pssh_data)
            pssh_data = pssh_size.to_bytes(4, byteorder='big') + pssh_data[4:]

            pssh_base64 = base64.b64encode(pssh_data).decode('utf-8')
            return pssh_base64

But it wasn't good enough. It only mostly worked.

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I have a shell script that runs downey (that can't get keys from KID) to get keys from a simple MPD with plaintext PSSH (I extract it with sed etc from the MPD and feed it to downey with --pssh), would it be possible to modify the script to make it shell script friendly? Avoid the interface and take two arguments (not input, just arguments when the python file runs), mpd and curl and just print the key, similar to how downey works. I ask for this because after the key I download with n-m3u8dl-re and make some other actions with mkvmerge I want on my script afterwards

I had a think about this. If you save the cURL as a file you could put the filepath as a argument along with mpd. That might do it. If it is beyond your skill level, try chatgpt; provide my script and ask it to refactor to take command line arguments; one mpd and one file location to be read for cURl, and the save-name I suppose.

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hell3.py always seems to work

More of a curiosity of mine but have you ever encountered a mpd that didn't have pssh in it and neither in its init fragment? And in that case did generating the pssh work?

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hell3.py always seems to work

More of a curiosity of mine but have you ever encountered a mpd that didn't have pssh in it and neither in its init fragment? And in that case did generating the pssh work?

Not sure. But the pssh search looks through the mpd for pssh first off. If not found it takes the Default_kid and formats pssh from that. And if all that fails it takes it from the init.m4f. It has to be in one of those, else how is it widevine?

[2nHxWW6GkN1l916N3ayz8HQoi]

Understood. Makes sense. Thanks for clarifications. I read your hell3 code and it's quite neat. I do have one question though. Not trying to be picky or anything. Wouldn't it be better if you used the generator as a last alternative? As you said:

If a CDN gets picky and tries to make sure it is its own issued pssh, some generators, producing a short version, will fail.

So I assume that if you ever find a pssh in its mpd or init, then its guaranteed to work. While the generated one doesn't offer 100% success rate. Or am I missing something? As you mentioned, in the current state the generated pssh has priority over the init.

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As you mentioned, in the current state the generated pssh has priority over the init.

Exactly that. I choose to have the lowest time overhead methods selected before having to do another httpx.get for an init.m4f. Why wouldn't i?

While the generated one doesn't offer 100% success rate.

Says you; other generators maybe. No faults found anywhere in testing. Everyone returned keys. See https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/411884-UK-Free-to-Air-Downloader/page11#post2739239

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Oh yeah. Forgot about the performance. Now it all makes sense about the solutions priority.