What is FortiGate Video Filter?

 --> Video Filter Profile allows the FortiGate Firewall to control YouTube/Vimeo/Dailymotion Content access such as:

i) To allow, monitor or block videos based on category

ii) To allow, monitor or block videos based on channels

iii) To set the restriction levels

--> With the video filter profile, it is possible to filter YouTube videos by channel ID for a more granular override of a single channel, user, or video.

--> The video filter profile is currently supported in proxy-based policies and requires SSL deep inspection.

--> Requires the use of YouTube API Key to perform filtering on YouTube Videos

--> FortiGate extracts the video ID (vid) and tries to check the category and channel from the local cache. 

--> If there is no match from the local cache, it connects to the Forti Guard video rating server to query the video category. 

--> If the Forti Guard rating fails, it uses the videofilter.youtube-key to communicate with the Google API server to get its category and channel ID. 

Configuration:

config video filter youtube-channel-filter

    edit 1

        set name "channel_filter"

        set default-action block

        config entries

            edit 1

                set action monitor

                set channel-id "UCHEQtltsiDd3p8ga-5nC-ow"

            next

        end

        set log enable

    next

end

config videofilter profile

  edit "category_filter"

        set youtube-channel-filter 1

    next

end