New user. Status Failed
One week ago I followed the video instructions by SaadJeeTabassam and installed the yt-dlp on my windows 10 laptop. All Youtube videos I've attempted to download it processes and ends with "Status: Failed." It has downloaded a couple of other videos. So I know it works. Every night I've ru the update checker and it says I have the latest versions. But still can't download anything from youtube. Please advise how to fix this.
The Following are the steps I used to install the yt-dlp downloader:
1. Downloaded yt-dlp.exe from site and placed it in a folder.
2. Downloaded ffmpeg-git-full.7z zipped file and extracted it
3. Moved the ffmpeg.exe, ffplay.exe and ffprobe.exe fies into the same folder as the yt-dlp.exe file
4. Went to the https/githb.com/saadjeetabassam/yt-dlp-ultimate-downloader site and on the releases tab downloaded the Ultimate Video downloader FullSetp1.0.0.zip and extracted it.
5. I opened the folder and placed the UltimateVideo.exe; Updater.exe; and yt-dlp.conf files into the folder with the yt-dlp.exe file.
Now when run it and paste a video site in it I get this response:
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DOWNLOADING 1 VIDEO FILE(S) (BEST QUALITY)
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Downloading item 1 of 1
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[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ_FRYebb3o
[youtube] HQ_FRYebb3o: Downloading webpage
[youtube] HQ_FRYebb3o: Downloading android vr player API JSON
ERROR: [youtube] HQ_FRYebb3o: Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot. Use
--cookies-from-browser or --cookies for the authentication. See
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/FAQ#how-do-i-pass-cookies-to-yt-dlp for how to
manually pass cookies. Also see
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Extractors#exporting-youtube-cookies for tips on
effectively exporting YouTube cookies
STATUS: FAILED
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ALL TASKS COMPLETED
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Successful Downloads : 0
Failed Downloads : 1
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Press any key to continue . . .
From the log it looks like problem is a cookies problemcookies to yt-dlp. I clicked on tne site for "How do I pass cookies to yt-dlp?" My browser is Firefox. I couldn't see how to pass cookies on to yt-dlp using Firefox as my browser
Any help would be appreciate.