Open globalgossamer opened 3 years ago
From https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/31172:
Please comment if this fixes the issue #28758, where a user could not download a paid video using cookies from a logged-in browser session. The extractor doesn't support username/password authentication.
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When authenticated to manyvids, either with -u and -p, or with passing a cookie, youtube-dl will only grab the preview file (aka the free one). In this case the logged in user has rights to stream the full video, in compressed and original formats