u/Erwin_the_German

Getting a HTTP Error 403: Forbidden through Tartube

Hi all,

First I want to frontload that I'm not fluent with this sort of thing, but I know some basics. A day ago I started getting this error when trying to download Youtube videos (audio only) through Tartube.

Verbose warnings gives me the following output:
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):

urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

I am on the nightly build, updated ffmpeg, am using Deno, etc.

I have tried to use cookies via Firefox with the appropriate config command, which did help me download at least one video, but on the next attempt it told me that the cookies need to be exported now. I've read that this risks getting my YT account getting banned, so I'm wary about doing this.

What's getting me is that I didn't even need to muck about with this stuff a few days ago. I'm guessing YT pushed some evil change or another, so do I wait for an update?

Thanks in advance - both for your help and your patience, lol.

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u/Erwin_the_German — 3 days ago