import os import base64 def new_video_id(length: int = 11) -> str: """Generate a YouTube-style random id, e.g. 'dQw4w9WgXcQ'.""" raw = os.urandom(length) b64 = base64.urlsafe_b64encode(raw).decode("ascii") b64 = b64.replace("=", "") return b64[:length]