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StefanLobbenmeier / youtube-dl-gui

A cross-platform GUI for youtube-dl made in Electron and node.js
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Error! Unhanded error Youtube Sign in #136

Open jehmin opened 3 months ago

jehmin commented 3 months ago

Version 2.5.4 Windows 10

Iv been using this app fine and then I get hit with this error. I think I downloaded may playlists and videos prior to issue.

Error! Unhanded error. ( Red Bar) Show Full Error: Sign in to confirm you are not a bat. This helps protect out community. Learn more here.

jehmin commented 3 months ago

I just learned if you close the app and restart it might fix the issue.

StefanLobbenmeier commented 3 months ago

That’s strange, feels like it is a captcha. You could add a cookies file to prevent this, but let’s see if there is already sth in yt-dlp for this

StefanLobbenmeier commented 3 months ago

Actually don’t

DO NOT PASS YOUR COOKIES, See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10085 and https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10108.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10128

StefanLobbenmeier commented 3 months ago

So looking through the linked issue, it looks like YouTube is IP banning heavy users unless authenticated. The authentication only works via an outh plugin to yt-dlp (hoping that it is soon integrated into yt-dlp)

will keep an eye on the linked issue if that happens, otherwise there might be a more complicated setup to install that plugin