N_m3u - How to pass Cookies?

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Hi,

did anyone triy to pass Cookies with the above? Help function gives an example with passing Cookies as headers:
-H "cookie: Mycookie"
But what exactly is meant with "cookie" and "MyCookie"?
I use CookieBro. When I look at a Cookie there is a list for each Cookie with a lot of parameters.
Am I right that the parameters NAME and VALUE are the important ones that can be passed with
-H "NAME: VALUE" ?
Can someone verify this, so that I know that my Cookie passing is NOT the error...?
Many thanks!

[lomero]

yt-dlp --cookies cookies.txt "https://..."

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Thanks, @lomero, but the question (threadname) was about N_m3u, which I unfortunately need in this case.
But by the way: IF in the future I shall need it with yt-dlp: What exactly is inside the txt-file, or how do you get it?

[jack_666]

How to pass Cookies

Multiple choice answer


a) One the left hand side as per Musical Youth? Or was that the dutchie, kutchie or chamber pot?
b) Ex-lax is known to work on many occasions?
or
c) Utilize the cookies.txt browser plugin (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/get-cookiestxt/bgaddhkoddajcdgocldbbfleckgcbcid) and use the cookies.txt file with yt-dlp?


laughter is the best medicine.

[LZAA]

-H, --header <header> Pass custom header(s) to server,
Example:
-H "Cookie: mycookie" -H "User-Agent: iOS"

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How to pass Cookies

c) Utilize the cookies.txt browser plugin (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/get-cookiestxt/bgaddhkoddajcdgocldbbfleckgcbcid) and use the cookies.txt file with yt-dlp?

I choose c.
But this was only an answer to my not-that-important-in-the-moment-question.

-H, --header <header> Pass custom header(s) to server,
Example:
-H "Cookie: mycookie" -H "User-Agent: iOS"

Yes, that's what I wrote already in my first post. The problem is, that I don't exactly know WHAT is to be passed as "Cookie:mycookie". Is it one of the parameters Cookies have? Is it maybe - as with yt-dlp - a link to a textfile with Cookie(s) inside? That is my question.

[AbortRetryFail]

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Cookie#examples

-H "Cookie: NAME=VALUE; NAME=VALUE"

and so on. You'll know if it worked if the server responds with the MPD, I guess...

You don't send anything like the Expires, for example. It's usually obvious from a glance at a cookie what the value part actually is, in part due to its arbitrariness.

On my PC, I have the following cookie exported:

# Netscape HTTP Cookie File

.github.com	TRUE	/	TRUE	0	preferred_color_mode	light

I'd send that with

-H "Cookie: preferred_color_mode=light"

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You'll know if it worked if the server responds with the MPD, I guess...

Yes... but if it DON'T, you do NOT know if the cookies are passed wrongly or you made another mistake that has nothing to do with cookies. That's my problem, so I thought maybe someone knows 100% sure how to pass.

# Netscape HTTP Cookie File

.github.com	TRUE	/	TRUE	0	preferred_color_mode	light

I'd send that with [CODE]-H "Cookie: preferred_color_mode=light"

Thanks for your help. That increases the probability that NAME and VALUE are to be passed.

[LZAA]

Url?

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Not allowed here.
It's about trying to bypass a Geo-restriction without VPN, Proxy, a. s. o.
Strangely in the browser it SOMETIMES worked with a wrong country-IP, whereas with N_M3u or yt-dlp never. So there must be a difference, and I tried nearly everything apart from the cookies. So I'm just experimenting a bit. Keys and mpd were not the problem.