[BUG] Exception: Unable to parse yt initial info

[SurajBhari]

Basic information

• Program version: 94ed3fe
• Python version: 3.12
• Operating system: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Describe the bug

Suddenly youtube is asking to "sign in to verify". obviously the only solution is to sign in (or provide signed in cookies).

This is very weird because it only seems to be happening on "digitalocean" IP's and not on AWS IP's.

Only solution is adding proper documentation for "cookies" args that is being used to go around this problem.

[nevmerzhitsky]

DigitalOcean's IPs were "blacklisted" on the YT side recently. So it's out of the library's scope maybe.

Only solution is adding proper documentation for "cookies" args that is being used to go around this problem.

Totally agree!

[SurajBhari]

I think it would be helpful if I put up a little info how to use the cookies arg.

for this you would need Netscape HTTP Cookie File .
to get one you would need an extension that do it and a browser.
I personally used Firefox and This extension

go to youtube.com and use this extension to get both www.youtube.com and youtube.com cookies. merge them into 1 file

and pass that file location into the cookie argument.
on the otherside you can also use this cookies.txt file for something like ytdlp if you have use for that.

[KucingMangkal]

I think it would be helpful if I put up a little info how to use the cookies arg.

for this you would need Netscape HTTP Cookie File . to get one you would need an extension that do it and a browser. I personally used Firefox and This extension

go to youtube.com and use this extension to get both www.youtube.com and youtube.com cookies. merge them into 1 file

and pass that file location into the cookie argument. on the otherside you can also use this cookies.txt file for something like ytdlp if you have use for that.

Thanks, it works.

You can use Cookie-Editor too.

I'm using this argument:

chat_downloader --cookies X:\chat-downloader\cookies.txt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXXX --output test.txt