How to youtube-dl download login required youtube video?

[abrogard]

There's a video I would like to keep but I'm guessing it is because it requires logging in before you can watch it that it can't be got with youtube-dl.

Any way to fix that? Or I better resign myself to using OBS ?

This is it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8j0tJsKltg

[DB83]

No login for me but there is a content warning/click required which may be fooling youtube-dl

No problem downloads fine with yt-dlp. I actually combine this with tvdownloader renaming yt-dlp as youtube-dl.exe

[abrogard]

thanks for the tip. I've now got both of them. and renamed to youtube-dl as you suggested.

It seemed to install and run okay.

But I got that same problem. Wonder why if you didn't? Country specific maybe? I'll try vpn.

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p.s. Yep. Country specific. I'm in Aus. We're slaves here. Unknowing dumb slaves.

thanks for the help

[DB83]

Comparing your CMD report to mine produces some differences.

I just wonder if the latest version of yt-dlp has broken the system as it has in the past. I am using v 2022.4.8.0.


So here is the docu as well. (The other thing is to ensure that you rename youtube-dl.exe (in the same folder) before renaming yt-dlp else TVDownloader will use the wrong program)

[codehound]

Firstly, forget all mention of youtube-dl - its dead in the water since June 2021

yt-dlp official releases page
2022.05.18 is the latest
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases

Make incremental updates yourself always before usage with the syntax (note uppercase U) :

yt-dlp -U

[abrogard]

Thanks for that. I couldn't get the thing even with yt-dlp (used by TVDownloader). Got the message about needing to prove age or something. I thought earlier that I had it. That I had beaten that by using a VPN to put me in the USA. But I see it never happened. I didn't get it. So I downloaded from DB83's link. Took about a dozen tries but I got it, thanks to it allowing continued dowloads instead of insisting on a restart.

So youtube-dl has been working for me right up to now. I get a lot of stuff from it. But I admit it's failing more often than it ever used to.

So I'll use yt-dlp now. The command set is the same as youtube-dl or there's a manual for it somewhere?

[Axel Slingerland]

Got the message about needing to prove age or something.

Personally, I have always found that idea rather amusing. How can you prove your age or identification conclusively online? If you're a bartender and someone walks into your bar and asks for a drink, you can ask to see their driver's license, ID card or whatever, but online, and specially on a website the size of YouTube, it's not quite that simple. I've heard of many solutions for that problem, but have never seen anything that actually works. Just about anybody is smart enough to click a button saying Yes, they're 18 or 21 but that proves nothing except that they know how to read.

[codehound]

So I'll use yt-dlp now. The command set is the same as youtube-dl or there's a manual for it somewhere?

Fill your boots
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#readme

Discord server for help (yt-dlp-help channel)
https://discord.gg/WJtctgQQ

It bypasses age gate

[DB83]

Just for the purpose of clarity, I did install the latest version of yt-dlp, copied it to the TVdownloader folder (as you have to) and renamed it as youtube-dl.exe (having also renamed any previously installed version)

Well the video still downloads without age-gating msg and the files mentioned in my CMD are the same as I posted earlier and do differ from those as shown by the OP


I seem to recall that a month or so ago YT did make some changes and my config did not work until the recent updates to yt-dlp. But it remains a mystery to me why this does not work for you. I do note that the OP's CMD is loading an age-gated player (something I do not see) so is it down to the YT setup inasmuch that you have to be logged in ?.


As for the "I am an adult" thingy I agree there are always ways to circumvent this. If memory serves, YT (or it could have been the Google associated account) did their attempt a while back where you entered debit/credit card details and they processed a minimum (and repaid) charge. The logic was that you had to be of a certain age to possess one. But what stops a minor from 'borrowing' mom's card.

[codehound]

so is it down to the YT setup inasmuch that you have to be logged in ?. .

No. I do not have a Y/T login, but download weekly from there inc age gated stuff. Age gate is superfluous with yt-dlp.

With the OPs url, I too get the age gate warning but the formats command gives this:


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So to download the 'best' available (with ffmpeg in same dir) the syntax is:

yt-dlp -f 398+140 "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8j0tJsKltg"

[DB83]

Ok. But how do you explain the variation between the OP's CMD and mine. And both appear to be created by yt-dlp ? (youtube-dl, atleast the version I was using before I switched, was different.)

[codehound]

OPs downloading some sort of age gate player, although he was using youtube-dl wasnt he DB ?

"downloading android ageplayer API json
downloading web ageplayer API json"

Your yt-dlp preamble mentions no agegate players in the API

[DB83]

Maybe he was. Even then his CMD differed to what I would see using youtube-dl.

Then he stated he could not get the vid even using yt-dlp. Maybe he just misread the instructions.


Now I know that TVDownloader technically just supports youtube-dl and the renaming of yt-dlp is a fudge but it works for me.

[codehound]

There are a few GUIs for yt-dlp but prob no better than tvdownloader with yt-dlp as the engine, DB. Well yt-dlp is a 'fudge' in itself because it was forked on git from yt-dlc which was a fork from youtube-dl. What isn't a fudge nowadays...

[abrogard]

@codehound

thanks for that command. I used it and it worked perfectly.