yt-dlp appreciation thread

Brabbit Narp said:
Well damn, so much for downloading those age restricted videos. I was taking a look at the old WW1 channel that had quite a few playlists filled with videos that have been age restricted for one reason or another. I rather not risk my account if I can help it, and doubtless YouTube will probably pick up on any attempts to use a burner and back your IP and anything associated with it wholesale. VPNs might be an option, but I am not certain if that will be an option worth pursuing considering the state of things.

Right now, I'll be content if I can find at least one site that would allow me to download age restricted vids with no bullshit attached.


Using this quick one as an example, I've tried a couple online downloaders, yet no dice thus far.
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Unfortunately from what I have been able to see and test, every video downloading service is just a varying layer over yt-dlp which means they are all beholden to the closed loophole. There is a plugin you can install for yt-dlp that uses a public service to provide valid cookies. At least that way you would not be using your own account.
 
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Civillian 18 said:
Unfortunately from what I have been able to see and test, every video downloading service is just a varying layer over yt-dlp which means they are all beholden to the closed loophole. There is a plugin you can install for yt-dlp that uses a public service to provide valid cookies. At least that way you would not be using your own account.
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Their proxy is dead, at least atm
 
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Their proxy is dead, at least atm
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I just confirmed the userscript is still working by opening an age restricted video on an instance that was not signed in. The proxy is not something you navigate to directly, from what I saw of a quick look at the GitHub it is an API that you pass a video ID to and it returns a cookie (I think, I am somewhat retarded) built from an age verified account which allows you to view the video.
 
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Civillian 18 said:
I just confirmed the userscript is still working by opening an age restricted video on an instance that was not signed in. The proxy is not something you navigate to directly, from what I saw of a quick look at the GitHub it is an API that you pass a video ID to and it returns a cookie (I think, I am somewhat retarded) built from an age verified account which allows you to view the video.
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Oh OK cool, I just saw a dead link on their readme and thought it was done for
 
Civillian 18 said:
I just confirmed the userscript is still working by opening an age restricted video on an instance that was not signed in. The proxy is not something you navigate to directly, from what I saw of a quick look at the GitHub it is an API that you pass a video ID to and it returns a cookie (I think, I am somewhat retarded) built from an age verified account which allows you to view the video.
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I see. I normally make use of Tartube's GUI functions for most purposes, or an external website if I needed to download an age restricted video. The command line confuses my normie ass, but I'll see about trying to make use of it. Are there any guides you can point me to so I can run down the process step by step? I looked over the Github for both YouTube-DLP and the plugin, and I didn't find anything beyond an AI generated text that provides dubious instructions.

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I tried save.tube on a private part shaving demonstration (talk about porn). save.tube failed too.

reptile baht spaniard rid said:
Is there a way to make yt-dlp only run at “browser” speeds? I’m willing to pull slower if it’ll be less noticeable.
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If you are willing to watch from start to finish at browser speeds, then pulling the video from your browser cache works.


You need to watch the video from start to finish WITHOUT skipping around or stopping. (I assume you can do double speed).

Once that video is in cache, you can search around in your cache for extra large files (maybe even keep track of when you first started your download).

Test it with VLC to find out which cache file is playable.

Once your find the correct cache file, make a copy of it and rename the extension to *.mp4.

I have got this to work before and videos that I did not interfere with while playing, thus not screwing up a contiguous cache file.
 
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And this just had to happen today. (:_(
Could someone download and share this video here? I don't understand why this MajorSamm video is age-gated yet his other video (featuring a European mercenary holding up a rotting african skull) has been un-age-gated. I really don't get how youtube's moderation works.
 
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#lurker said:
Looks like you can't download age restricted videos without cookies or oauth now, which means you risk getting your account cucked.
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This has been a problem for a while tbf, I remember up to a year ago having to dump cookies for the age restricted vids. It sucks, but I always use throwaway accounts when downloading channels, and try to be both behind a VPN, and to only download a single batch a day.
 
Gog & Magog said:
And this just had to happen today. (:_(
Could someone download and share this video here? I don't understand why this MajorSamm video is age-gated yet his other video (featuring a European mercenary holding up a rotting african skull) has been un-age-gated. I really don't get how youtube's moderation works.
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It's not as high quality as the original video but country girls make do.

 
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Brabbit Narp said:
I see. I normally make use of Tartube's GUI functions for most purposes, or an external website if I needed to download an age restricted video. The command line confuses my normie ass, but I'll see about trying to make use of it. Are there any guides you can point me to so I can run down the process step by step? I looked over the Github for both YouTube-DLP and the plugin, and I didn't find anything beyond an AI generated text that provides dubious instructions.

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Installing plugins themselves is pretty simple, see the section in the yt-dlp GitHub itself. I managed to get the plugin set up and running but it looks like I am in fact a retard and the proxy service is down and not responding with valid cookies (it appears to be down completely and the maintainer is aware but no timeline for being back).
Hopefully some form of workaround comes out but I am not super optimistic at this point.
 
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for any of my fellow autistic kiwis, is there any way I can download Kick streams 100% without fail rate? It seems like I keep getting HTTP 403 errors, but I used pip emulation and I installed the required dependencies.

I'm on Linux Mint, I've tried researching this problem, but I'm getting dead ends.
 
Osama Bin Laden said:
for any of my fellow autistic kiwis, is there any way I can download Kick streams 100% without fail rate? It seems like I keep getting HTTP 403 errors, but I used pip emulation and I installed the required dependencies.

I'm on Linux Mint, I've tried researching this problem, but I'm getting dead ends.
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it happened to me too. kick even claims it should work so its ubergay
 
Osama Bin Laden said:
for any of my fellow autistic kiwis, is there any way I can download Kick streams 100% without fail rate? It seems like I keep getting HTTP 403 errors, but I used pip emulation and I installed the required dependencies.

I'm on Linux Mint, I've tried researching this problem, but I'm getting dead ends.
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I grab the m3u8 from the browser console on the rare occasion I download a Kick stream.
 
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