yt-dlp from snap can't access cookies from chromium (also from snap).
pumbez@lenochka:~$ /snap/bin/yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser chromium:/home/pumbez/snap/chromium/common/chromium -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9hXNV-3kGY
Extracting cookies from chromium
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/snap/yt-dlp/365/bin/yt-dlp", line 8, in
sys.exit(main())
File "/snap/yt-dlp/365/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yt_dlp/init.py", line 1009, in main
_exit(*variadic(_real_main(argv)))
File "/snap/yt-dlp/365/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yt_dlp/init.py", line 963, in _real_main
with YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
File "/snap/yt-dlp/365/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 681, in init
self._request_director = self.build_request_director(_REQUEST_HANDLERS.values(), _RH_PREFERENCES)
File "/snap/yt-dlp/365/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 4115, in build_request_director
cookiejar=self.cookiejar,
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/functools.py", line 981, in get
val = self.func(instance)
File "/snap/yt-dlp/365/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 4036, in cookiejar
return load_cookies(
File "/snap/yt-dlp/365/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yt_dlp/cookies.py", line 91, in load_cookies
extract_cookies_from_browser(browser_name, profile, YDLLogger(ydl), keyring=keyring, container=container))
File "/snap/yt-dlp/365/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yt_dlp/cookies.py", line 112, in extract_cookies_from_browser
return _extract_chrome_cookies(browser_name, profile, keyring, logger)
File "/snap/yt-dlp/365/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yt_dlp/cookies.py", line 273, in _extract_chrome_cookies
raise FileNotFoundError(f'could not find {browser_name} cookies database in "{search_root}"')
FileNotFoundError: could not find chromium cookies database in "/home/pumbez/snap/chromium/common/chromium"
yt-dlp from snap can't access cookies from chromium (also from snap).