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YouTube thinks my web server's IP is in the Philippines?

I'm experiencing an issue that causes YouTube to load in Filipino rather than English. Everything has been working fine for the past 6 months up until today. My web server is hosted in the US and all the IP addresses point to Texas. I'm loading a YouTube page with PHP on this site: http://getlikes.us/testget.php

$youtubeURL = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8To-6VIJZRE";
$data = file_get_contents($youtubeURL);
echo $data;

Which results in the page loading in Filipino:

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I'm unsure where to go from here. What is causing YouTube to think the region is the Philippines?

Solution

  • Not sure why it is doing that, maybe their algorithm has a glitch or your server is sending something strange. That server is in TX, US and the IPs are registered to a TX, US block.

    You might need to send an Accept-Language header with stream_context_create() and use the stream context in file_get_contents():

    $opts = array('http'=>array('method'=>"GET",
                            'header'=>"Accept-language: en\r\n"
                           )
             );

$context = stream_context_create($opts);
$youtubeURL = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8To-6VIJZRE";
$data = file_get_contents($youtubeURL, false, $context);
echo $data;