Download videos from yt-dlp with key

[valelisa39]

How do I download videos with yt-dlp with the key? If I put it in, it gives me an error. As a software to search for keys, I use widevineproxy2. How do I use the key on yt-dlp which command should I use? thanks in advance

[iamghost]

use this
https://files.videohelp.com/u/301156/downloader.zip
open and run cmd from this folder and copy/paste cmd from widevineproxy2
then you good..

[Obo]

You don't (usually). Why don't you simply use the command WidevineProxy2 builds for you to download and decrypt the video, if you already use WidevineProxy2?

yt-dlp cannot handle decryption without a separate plugin (look out for e.g. yt-dlp-mp4decrypt); you can sometimes download encrypted videos if you use the --allow-unplayable-formats flag, but you have to decrypt the downloaded video yourself using e.g. mp4decrypt.

[phased]

How do I download videos with yt-dlp with the key? If I put it in, it gives me an error. As a software to search for keys, I use widevineproxy2. How do I use the key on yt-dlp which command should I use? thanks in advance

Do some homework. at the very least do-

yt-dlp --help

and look for any mention of adding encryption keys to the command.

You will not find any!
So your question is answered by 'not possible'.

A way to do it, is to use yt-dlp to download the video and audio files in an encrypted state. yt-dlp may do this for you.
Once downloaded, you use mp4decrypt/shaka-packager to decrypt, using your key(s).
Finally you use mkvmerge to join the unencrypted files.

If you want more help all of this is explained step by step in Decryption and the Temple of Doom in the stickies.

But maybe you don't want yt-dlp but N_m3u8DL-RE?? - you can do some research yourself to find out about that.
Answers all here are!

[valelisa39]

I finally gave up because of the constant use error. Now n_m3u8dl-re is working fine. Thanks everyone for the help.