diff --git a/src/types/innerTubeApi.model.ts b/src/types/innerTubeApi.model.ts
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+export interface innerTubeVideoDetails {
+    "videoId": string,
+    "title": string,
+    "lengthSeconds": string, // yes, don't ask.
+    "channelId": string,
+    "isOwnerViewing": boolean,
+    "shortDescription": string,
+    "isCrawlable": boolean,
+    "thumbnail": {
+        "thumbnails": [{
+                "url": string,
+                "width": number,
+                "height": number
+            }
+        ]
+    },
+    "allowRatings": boolean,
+    "viewCount": string, // yes, don't ask
+    "author": string,
+    "isPrivate": boolean,
+    "isUnpluggedCorpus": boolean,
+    "isLiveContent": boolean
+}
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diff --git a/src/utils/innerTubeAPI.ts b/src/utils/innerTubeAPI.ts
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+import axios from "axios";
+import { innerTubeVideoDetails } from "../types/innerTubeApi.model";
+
+export async function getPlayerData(videoID: string): Promise<innerTubeVideoDetails> {
+    // start subrequest
+    const url = "https://www.youtube.com/youtubei/v1/player";
+    const data = {
+        context: {
+            client: {
+                clientName: "WEB",
+                clientVersion: "2.20211129.09.00"
+            }
+        },
+        videoId: videoID
+    };
+    const result = await axios.post(url, data, {
+        timeout: 3500
+    });
+    if (result.status === 200) {
+        return result.data.videoDetails;
+    } else {
+        return Promise.reject(result.status);
+    }
+}
+
+export const getLength = (videoID: string): Promise<number> =>
+    getPlayerData(videoID)
+        .then(pData => Number(pData.lengthSeconds))
+        .catch(err => err);
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diff --git a/test/cases/innerTubeApi.ts b/test/cases/innerTubeApi.ts
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+import { config } from "../../src/config";
+import assert from "assert";
+// import { innerTubeVideoDetails } from "../../src/types/innerTubeApi.model";
+import { YouTubeAPI } from "../../src/utils/youtubeApi";
+import * as innerTube from "../../src/utils/innerTubeAPI";
+import { partialDeepEquals } from "../utils/partialDeepEquals";
+
+
+const videoID = "dQw4w9WgXcQ";
+const expected = { // partial type of innerTubeVideoDetails
+    videoId: videoID,
+    title: "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Music Video)",
+    lengthSeconds: "212",
+    channelId: "UCuAXFkgsw1L7xaCfnd5JJOw",
+    isOwnerViewing: false,
+    isCrawlable: true,
+    allowRatings: true,
+    author: "Rick Astley",
+    isPrivate: false,
+    isUnpluggedCorpus: false,
+    isLiveContent: false
+};
+const currentViews = 1284257550;
+
+describe("innertube API test", function() {
+    it("should be able to get innerTube details", async () => {
+        const result = await innerTube.getPlayerData(videoID);
+        assert.ok(partialDeepEquals(result, expected));
+    });
+    it("Should have more views than current", async () => {
+        const result = await innerTube.getPlayerData(videoID);
+        assert.ok(Number(result.viewCount) >= currentViews);
+    });
+    it("Should have the same video duration from both endpoints", async () => {
+        const playerData = await innerTube.getPlayerData(videoID);
+        const length = await innerTube.getLength(videoID);
+        assert.equal(Number(playerData.lengthSeconds), length);
+    });
+    it("Should have equivalent response from NewLeaf", async function () {
+        if (!config.newLeafURLs || config.newLeafURLs.length <= 0 || config.newLeafURLs[0] == "placeholder") this.skip();
+        const itResponse = await innerTube.getPlayerData(videoID);
+        const newLeafResponse = await YouTubeAPI.listVideos(videoID, true);
+        // validate videoID
+        assert.strictEqual(itResponse.videoId, videoID);
+        assert.strictEqual(newLeafResponse.data?.videoId, videoID);
+        // validate description
+        assert.strictEqual(itResponse.shortDescription, newLeafResponse.data?.description);
+        // validate authorId
+        assert.strictEqual(itResponse.channelId, newLeafResponse.data?.authorId);
+    });
+});
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