diff --git a/extractor/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/extractors/YoutubeChannelExtractor.java b/extractor/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/extractors/YoutubeChannelExtractor.java
index cc37cbda..24c7f4d1 100644
--- a/extractor/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/extractors/YoutubeChannelExtractor.java
+++ b/extractor/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/extractors/YoutubeChannelExtractor.java
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ public class YoutubeChannelExtractor extends ChannelExtractor {
     private static final String CHANNEL_URL_PARAMETERS = "/videos?view=0&flow=list&sort=dd&live_view=10000";
 
     private Document doc;
+    private JsonObject ytInitialData;
 
     public YoutubeChannelExtractor(StreamingService service, ListLinkHandler linkHandler) {
         super(service, linkHandler);
@@ -59,6 +60,16 @@ public class YoutubeChannelExtractor extends ChannelExtractor {
         String channelUrl = super.getUrl() + CHANNEL_URL_PARAMETERS;
         final Response response = downloader.get(channelUrl, getExtractorLocalization());
         doc = YoutubeParsingHelper.parseAndCheckPage(channelUrl, response);
+        ytInitialData = getInitialData();
+    }
+
+    private JsonObject getInitialData() throws ParsingException {
+        try {
+            String initialData = Parser.matchGroup1("window\\[\"ytInitialData\"\\]\\s*=\\s*(\\{.*?\\});", doc.toString());
+            return JsonParser.object().from(initialData);
+        } catch (JsonParserException | Parser.RegexException e) {
+            throw new ParsingException("Could not get ytInitialData", e);
+        }
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/extractor/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/extractors/YoutubeStreamExtractor.java b/extractor/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/extractors/YoutubeStreamExtractor.java
index 9568c7ff..65946436 100644
--- a/extractor/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/extractors/YoutubeStreamExtractor.java
+++ b/extractor/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/extractors/YoutubeStreamExtractor.java
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ public class YoutubeStreamExtractor extends StreamExtractor {
     @Nonnull
     private final Map<String, String> videoInfoPage = new HashMap<>();
     private JsonObject playerResponse;
+    private JsonObject ytInitialData;
 
     @Nonnull
     private List<SubtitlesInfo> subtitlesInfos = new ArrayList<>();
@@ -736,6 +737,7 @@ public class YoutubeStreamExtractor extends StreamExtractor {
             isAgeRestricted = false;
         }
         playerResponse = getPlayerResponse();
+        ytInitialData = getInitialData();
 
         if (decryptionCode.isEmpty()) {
             decryptionCode = loadDecryptionCode(playerUrl);
@@ -809,6 +811,15 @@ public class YoutubeStreamExtractor extends StreamExtractor {
         }
     }
 
+    private JsonObject getInitialData() throws ParsingException {
+        try {
+            String initialData = Parser.matchGroup1("window\\[\"ytInitialData\"\\]\\s*=\\s*(\\{.*?\\});", doc.toString());
+            return JsonParser.object().from(initialData);
+        } catch (JsonParserException | Parser.RegexException e) {
+            throw new ParsingException("Could not get ytInitialData", e);
+        }
+    }
+
     @Nonnull
     private EmbeddedInfo getEmbeddedInfo() throws ParsingException, ReCaptchaException {
         try {
diff --git a/extractor/src/test/java/org/schabi/newpipe/DownloaderTestImpl.java b/extractor/src/test/java/org/schabi/newpipe/DownloaderTestImpl.java
index 948975a0..4fdab77e 100644
--- a/extractor/src/test/java/org/schabi/newpipe/DownloaderTestImpl.java
+++ b/extractor/src/test/java/org/schabi/newpipe/DownloaderTestImpl.java
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ import java.util.Map;
 
 public class DownloaderTestImpl extends Downloader {
 
-    private static final String USER_AGENT = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0";
+    private static final String USER_AGENT = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:54.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/73.0";
     private static final String DEFAULT_HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE = "en";
 
     private static DownloaderTestImpl instance = null;