Dealing with age restricted videos

jely2002 / youtube-dl-gui

A cross-platform GUI for youtube-dl made in Electron and node.js

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Dealing with age restricted videos #545

Open Xyrexus opened 3 weeks ago

Xyrexus commented 3 weeks ago

Sorry if this is explained elsewhere, but from what I know, at the moment there's no way to get around age-restriction with yt-dl without using cookies so you essentially sign in?

Is that doable with Open Video Downloader?

StefanLobbenmeier commented 2 weeks ago

Yeah it’s described in the wiki: https://github.com/jely2002/youtube-dl-gui/wiki/Tutorial:-Private-videos-&-playlists

However, the extension for cookies linked there is malware, see https://github.com/StefanLobbenmeier/youtube-dl-gui/issues/149