Allow specific channel and block youtube.

[Luisnego]

Hello, CheckMates, 

I created a traffic shaping for media streams/ social networks, but now I need to allow some youtube channels e.g. my organization, but I can't find way to do this, because videos on youtube don't have URL specific for videos this channel. Can I create some rule that allows doing this?. Do I really need to create a custom Application rule to allow video by video?

[G_W_Albrecht · Accepted solution]

No, that is not possible - i knew customers with similar ideas. The tedious way should at least work...

[Pawel_Topczewsk]

I think You could do it but you need HTTPS Inspection to be enabled.

How to do it? Each Youtube channel has its unique ID. You would need to block this ID to block specific channel.

[B_P]

Use YouTube API to query for all videos under a channel then use Check Point API to add each video to whitelist?

[Marcos_Vieira]

According to this other CheckMates article you have a solution to this:

How to allow specific YouTube channels - Check Point CheckMates