A yt-dlp extractor plugin to bypass YouTube age-gate

Uses account proxy by zerodytrash to fetch video formats and a free proxy service for download (if required)

Pass --extractor-args youtube:no-video-proxy to disable the download proxy service. This may prevent certain videos from downloading

Note: The account proxy has limited resources. Please do not abuse

Installation

Requires yt-dlp 2023.01.01 or above. For older versions, use this gist

You can install this package with pip:

python3 -m pip install -U https://github.com/pukkandan/yt-dlp-YTAgeGateBypass/archive/master.zip

See yt-dlp installing plugins for the many other ways this plugin package can be installed.