r/youtubedl

Been trying to download videos with Open Video Downloader and nearly every single one is locked into Access Forbidden no matter what it is. This is very recent, as it was working perfectly fine a week ago, and no matter what I do it will not download most videos now. Nine times out of ten I get the error. Can anyone help?

Hello, I want to try out the yt dlps but I don’t know how to use it and what to do, hope I get some help installing videos from yt?

So, I'm fairly new here so this might be a dumb question.

I created my config file inside the yt-dlp folder and kept modifying it over a few days. Now, when I use yt-dlp, it downloads using my configurations (thumbnail, path, cookies, etc), but there is no config file in the yt-dlp folder.

I did a seach for it too, and the only file that came up was the .git/config file. Is this a common issue? Is it even an issue, or is it intended this way? I can't figure out how it kept all my arguments with no config file, but it's nowhere in the directory

Any help would be much appreciated!

Context: Everything was working prior to downloading one video (after several) with the "Highest Quality Video and Audio option", some continued to work anyway along with giving the PC some space between downloads (and re-encodes) due to it's age.

However, Unless i select an 3rd alt account, Neither my personal, nor my 2nd other account works. Even then i have to stay on that account and generate a cookie.txt file. Otherwise, nothing unusual (no symptoms) on that account. Do note that I've haven't discovered the "sleep-interval" portion (s) in time, instead assuming the default sleep values.

Note: everything was installed correctly with no oversight that ive noticed on my end. It also doesn't list an normal error code to point to (in order to search other users having this issue).

If it otherwise is a normal symptom of too many videos downloaded, what could i do to prevent it?

Log from Stacher 7 (Now has reached the point where the video doesn't matter, any subsequent videos will do this, with the videos otherwise still accessible in a browser [Firefox] as usual):

Stacher Version: 7.1.11 System Information: win32 x64 Stacher Premium Active: Yes yt-dlp: C:\Users\agte6\.stacher\yt-dlp.exe Download ID: b856c2f6-3bf0-4b37-be9a-f95f30b64b83 Using Configuration: default-configuration Starting download for [URL REDACTED] With Arguments (based on your configuration): --output C:\Users\agte6\OneDrive\Documents\YouTube Saved Videos\MVs\English\%(upload_date)s_%(title)s.%(ext)s --format bestvideo+bestaudio --embed-chapters --exec post_process:%userprofile%\.stacher\ffmpeg -i {} -c:v h264_qsv -c:a copy -y {}_output.mp4 && move /y {}_output.mp4 {} --sleep-interval 20 --max-sleep-interval 25 --cookies-from-browser Firefox --write-info-json --write-thumbnail --write-description --abort-on-error --recode mp4 Pre-script: None Post-script: None Download Hash: 56e747d670bbca6825d6dc2209adbcaf3d9e6c021bacbf6d458457be92e758da Extracting cookies from firefox Extracted 2722 cookies from firefox [youtube] Extracting URL: [URL REDACTED] [youtube] XSZ0iMP80QQ: Downloading webpage [youtube] XSZ0iMP80QQ: Downloading tv downgraded player API JSON [youtube] XSZ0iMP80QQ: Downloading player c74cbcd6-main [youtube] [jsc:deno] Solving JS challenges using deno [youtube] XSZ0iMP80QQ: Downloading m3u8 information ERROR: [youtube] XSZ0iMP80QQ: Requested format is not available. Use --list-formats for a list of available formats Process exited with code 1

EDIT: Switching to nightly builds fixed it for me, enable pro mode in advanced settings then new options should appear. Select nightly builds and you should be good.

I have not been able to get stacher to work in a while and I am not sure what to do. Please keep in mind I am not a programmer and am using Windows 11. I have tried running with admin privileges as well with no success. I have tried reinstalling yt-dpl & ffmpeg over & over but still everything fails... Thanks for any help in advance

here is my stacher gui green check mark for reference

Here is the log, it's always either this or just "Process exited with code 1" without any error:

Stacher Version: 7.1.11

System Information: win32 x64

Stacher Premium Active: No

yt-dlp: C:\Users\sjudg\.stacher\yt-dlp.exe

Download ID: 39650b9e-e3d6-4c53-aca5-998a4dc2f93c

Using Configuration: default-configuration

Starting download for [URL REDACTED]

With Arguments (based on your configuration):

--output C:\Users\sjudg\Music\%(title)s.%(ext)s

--extract-audio

--audio-format mp3

--audio-quality 0

--concurrent-fragments 12

--cookies-from-browser Firefox

--download-archive C:\Users\sjudg/.stacher/default_archive.txt

--abort-on-error

Pre-script: None

Post-script: None

Download Hash: 64721900ff35c0928a14e90ebb21b32c07fd55fbaa5f21c097e4d248cdec2f51

Extracting cookies from firefox

Extracted 31 cookies from firefox

[youtube] Extracting URL: [URL REDACTED]

[youtube] lXosxmFYjbw: Downloading webpage

[youtube] lXosxmFYjbw: Downloading android vr player API JSON

[info] lXosxmFYjbw: Downloading 1 format(s): 251

ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

Process exited with code 1

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)

==============================================================

--------------------------------------------------------------

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

==============================================================

ALL TASKS COMPLETED

==============================================================

Successful Downloads : 0

Failed Downloads     : 1

==============================================================

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.

Now that yt-dlp is completely dead thanks to the "team" there is destroying it more and more through at least the last half year or more, and websites they block internally within yt-dlp for no reason

And also even youtube is broken and wont get fixed from them I guess since even that site is got worse and worse and relying on things they dont pack in their packages or anythong

Also the more and more AI slop there has entered into the code from the team yeah

So what tool would people recommend to change to there actually works with youtube and the normal porn sites??

Hello.

So, these days I wasn't able to download anything at all

It was always giving the "HTTP Error 403: Forbidden" issue.

I tried several different settings, removed cookies, etc, and nothing was working... Until now.

All I had to do is to create a new template (More > Command Templates) and add the following command:

--extractor-args "youtube:player_client=tv,mweb;lang=en"

From my understanding, this command overwrites the default settings and the only difference is that it downloads to a "Command" folder instead of the "Video" folder

For anyone having issues, it's worth a try.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that this was the YTDLnis app on Android, stable version.

What a pitty

Guys anyone knows how to fix this problem, i deployed my tool to a datacenter. passing cookies didnt work. other solution is to use a proxy but im not sure if its gonna work.

Since today I'm getting HTTP 403 "Forbidden" for almost all vids I try to download with format option -f18, and also for many I try with an even more compact format:

ERROR: unable to download video data: 
HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

When I invoke yt-dlp without a format option, all vids download successfully.

Strangely though, a few videos can still be downloaded in format 18, so apparently there's no general problem with the extractor. Something else is wrong.

Anyone else experiencing this?

It has been two months since YTDLnis has been updated, which is pretty slow for a YouTube downloader. WIll it be receiving an update soon? I couldn't download a sage restricted video recently.