YT-DLP - ERROR 403 no credentials to authenticate

[jdanielw]

HI Everyone,

I have been reading through the forum and trying to re-search this for a few hours now, but I still can not find the end result.

I receive the error : Could not send HEAD request to https://[LINK]: HTTP Error 403: no credentials to authenticate

I pass cookies through, I have tried all authentication options and all request headers and still have no luck.

I have tried other software such as n_m3u8dl and FFMPEG.

Does anyone have any other ideas on how I could get this MPD downloaded? or what I may need to pass through YT-DLP?

[codehound]

I pass cookies through

How ? Post your syntax (command)

For starters, if its WV it needs a completely different approach anyway- give us the url of the video you are trying to DL and show us the syntax of your command that you used, instead of being vague...so without proper credentials and an url all I can suggest for now is:

yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser firefox "some-mpd-URL"

Substitute any other browser by name - lowercase

Could also add --referer "https://www.yoursite.com"

yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser firefox --referer "https://www.yoursite.com" "some-mpd-URL"

[lomero]

yea, good words codehound.

anyway about --cookies-from-browser assuming FF installed in its own path ... but with browser on portable version?
- installed on other partition (no C) -

yes it possible this:

--cookies-from-browser BROWSER[:PROFILE_NAME_OR_PATH]

but maybe is better export cookie on txt format (with proper extension) and then use --cookies cookies.txt

[jdanielw]

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