yt-dlp appreciation thread

[Johnny Apple Sneed]

so lately this is what im getting when i try to download a vid. is it finally over for us ytdl bros?

 

[Jang Joo]

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so lately this is what im getting when i try to download a vid. is it finally over for us ytdl bros?

It's working for me as of 20 minutes ago. Your IP got flagged, take it easy for a couple of days/weeks and it might clear. In the meantime you're gonna have to make use of VPNs

 

[UncleTusky]

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so lately this is what im getting when i try to download a vid. is it finally over for us ytdl bros?

It's working for me as of 20 minutes ago. Your IP got flagged, take it easy for a couple of days/weeks and it might clear. In the meantime you're gonna have to make use of VPNs

And even with VPNs you might have to jump between nodes, at least on my VPN of choice which nodes can watch YT on a given day seems somewhat random.

 

[Hellwalker]

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so lately this is what im getting when i try to download a vid. is it finally over for us ytdl bros?

It's working for me as of 20 minutes ago. Your IP got flagged, take it easy for a couple of days/weeks and it might clear. In the meantime you're gonna have to make use of VPNs

I experienced that myself once but it was just one time. I tried it on a video but it gave me that error. Tried it again on another video and it worked. I didn't actually know it's an IP flagging thing.

 

[cipheranarchist]

There's definitely nothing wrong with the program.
Issues with downloading are usually always related to the user's IP address or DNS.
I use VPNs only, and have no problems.

 

[john5433]

can someone help me I'm trying to mass download a playlist

yt-dlp --cookies cookies.txt -f 'bestvideo[height<=240]+bestaudio' https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeBy95twFwWabMV6KjfixS5oBA_zhwBNE

even with cookies it seems to keep telling me to sign in why is this the case?

 

[Banana Hammock]

can someone help me I'm trying to mass download a playlist

yt-dlp --cookies cookies.txt -f 'bestvideo[height<=240]+bestaudio' https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeBy95twFwWabMV6KjfixS5oBA_zhwBNE

even with cookies it seems to keep telling me to sign in why is this the case?

Might need to renew your login. Go into your browser, clear the cookies for YouTube, and log back in. See if that fixes it. That, or you might need to update.

 

[Osama Bin Laden]

can someone help me I'm trying to mass download a playlist

yt-dlp --cookies cookies.txt -f 'bestvideo[height<=240]+bestaudio' https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeBy95twFwWabMV6KjfixS5oBA_zhwBNE

even with cookies it seems to keep telling me to sign in why is this the case?

use proxies since you're attacking youtube API using your own IP multiple times

 

[prollyanotherlurker]

I figured I might as well ask here and see if anyone has any ideas.

I've clipped a few things from rumble, but because usually what I want to clip is a 6 hour stream, and I don't want to download a full 10gb stream to edit out a couple minutes of clips, I've had to use obs and the edit that, which is a shitty way to do things.

So I found how to just download segments, which looks to be fine. The problem is on rumble I'm getting an error about the something in the video "is not in the allowed_segment_extensions" and none of the flags I have tried have fixed that error.

like:

--downloader ffmpeg --extractor-args "rumble:allowed_segment_extensions=ts,tar"

or

--compat-options "allow-unsafe-ext"

any ideas?

 

[clipartfan92]

any ideas?

I asked the Brave Search AI and it had this to say:

Spoiler

Use --downloader-args with ffmpeg

The allowed_segment_extensions option must be passed directly to ffmpeg via yt-dlp's --downloader-args, not through --extractor-args. Here's the correct command:

yt-dlp \
  --downloader ffmpeg \
  --downloader-args "ffmpeg_i:-allowed_extensions ALL" \
  "https://www.rumble.com/embed/..."

Explanation:

• --downloader ffmpeg: Uses ffmpeg as the backend.
• --downloader-args "ffmpeg_i:-allowed_extensions ALL": Passes the flag to ffmpeg when reading input segments (ffmpeg_i), allowing all extensions like .ts, .tar, etc.
  
  • ffmpeg_i = arguments passed to ffmpeg during input handling (i.e., when downloading segments).
  • -allowed_extensions ALL overrides the default whitelist.

Avoid --compat-options "allow-unsafe-ext" — this is outdated and not effective for segment restrictions.

 

[Forprexxer]

@Doxed how did you download videos off of Bitview? yt-dlp doesn't work on it and everything specific to it seems out of date or something

 

[Doxed]

@Doxed how did you download videos off of Bitview? yt-dlp doesn't work on it and everything specific to it seems out of date or something

- Open the video in new tab
- Open up the website's html code
- Now click on "Network"
- In this tab, click on "Media"
- Refresh the page
- Let the video play
- You'll see this

- Right click on this green thing
- Open in new tab
- Now you can download the video