u/dominathing

I discovered yt-dlp today and wanted to use it to download my music playlist to keep it locally.

I followed this guide on a windows 11 machine (also i admit i don't really know what i'm doing) step by step but this is the result:

PS C:\ytdl&gt; yt-dlp "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
[youtube] dQw4w9WgXcQ: Downloading webpage
[youtube] dQw4w9WgXcQ: Downloading android vr player API JSON
[youtube] dQw4w9WgXcQ: Downloading player c74cbcd6-main
[youtube] [jsc:deno] Solving JS challenges using deno
[youtube] dQw4w9WgXcQ: Downloading m3u8 information
[info] dQw4w9WgXcQ: Downloading 1 format(s): 401+251
[download] Destination: Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Video) (4K Remaster) [dQw4w9WgXcQ].f401.mp4
[download]  29.6% of  229.20MiB at   57.17MiB/s ETA 00:02ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

The result is the same wether i use terminal or powershell, i have no idea what to do

Error 403 when downloading (yt-dlp is up to date)