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What does that have to do with youtube-dl? (Sorry it's been like 5 years since I used it, I don't remember that being required)

• dleslie 6y ago
  It allows one to download private videos that your account can access.
  • joshspankit 6y ago
    Such as: - I have a script that downloads my liked videos (in case they get deleted, which I’ve found out happens a fair bit) - I also have a script to download my watch later videos (for sync to devices without YouTube Premium/Red/whatever)
    • mattl 6y ago
      Would you share those scripts?
      • joshspankit 6y ago
        Sure: ```bash # !/bin/sh cd /media/youtube-dl docker-compose run --rm youtube-dl -v --cookies /etc/youtube-dl.cookies.txt https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=INSERTYOUROWNWATCHLATERPLAYLISTIDHERE https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=INSERTYOUROWNWATCHLATE... -o "watchlater/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s" --ignore-errors ``` That’s a bash script that runs via cron. One thing to note: this uses the cookies from a logged-in browser session because at some point YouTube blocked password log in from youtube-dl. This was is a bit of a pain to set up, and I wish it was not the case, but it mostly works.
  • dmoy 6y ago
    So the theory is this has nothing to do with security, but is only used to break private video downloading of youtube-dl?
    • dleslie 6y ago
      It blocks misrepresentation of agent, in general; automation is also blocked in general, but _especially_ for authentication.
      • dmoy 6y ago
        Sure but if the goal was to block youtube-dl usage, wouldn't they target the vastly more common usecase without authentication?
• mulmen 6y ago
  There's an ocean between required and useful.