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Can't download twitter private videos.

See original GitHub issue

Checklist

I’m reporting a broken site
I’ve verified that I’m running yt-dlp version 2022.02.04. (update instructions)
I’ve checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
I’ve checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
I’ve searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones. DO NOT post duplicates
I’ve read the guidelines for opening an issue
I’ve read about sharing account credentials and I’m willing to share it if required

Region

anywhere

Description

First of all, I appreciate your time and efforts involved in making and maintaining yt-dlp. I found it very useful and convenient.

I wanna download a twitter video which is only available for the uploader’s followers. I extracted cookies in twitter with Get cookies.txt (chrome extension), named ‘cookies.txt’, and placed it in the folder in which I’m gonna download the private video. And then, I openned cmd in the folder and typed the following command;

yt-dlp --cookies cookies.txt -F https://twitter.com/[UserID]/status/[TweetID]

(I blinded a detailed pin number because of concern about privacy being exposed. I’m so sorry and would appreciate if you could be willing to understand me.)

And it responded like this;

[twitter] [TweetID]: Downloading guest token ERROR: [twitter] [TweetID]: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden (caused by <HTTPError 403: ‘Forbidden’>); please report this issue on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp , filling out the “Broken site” issue template properly. Confirm you are on the latest version using -U (caused by <HTTPError 403: ‘Forbidden’>); please report this issue on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp , filling out the “Broken site” issue template properly. Confirm you are on the latest version using -U

I changed the cookies text file into new one and executed all the rest of the process once again, but the result was the same. Did I miss something? Are there more processes that I have to do? It would be great if anyone could help me. Thank you.

Verbose log

[debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', '--cookies', 'cookies.txt', '-F', 'https://twitter.com/[UserID]/status/[TweetID]']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp949, fs utf-8, out utf-8, err utf-8, pref cp949
[debug] yt-dlp version 2022.02.04 [c1653e9] (win_exe)
[debug] Python version 3.8.10 (CPython 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.19043-SP0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg git-2020-06-28-4cfcfb3, ffprobe git-2020-06-28-4cfcfb3
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome, mutagen, sqlite, websockets
[debug] Proxy map: {}
Latest version: 2022.02.04, Current version: 2022.02.04
yt-dlp is up to date (2022.02.04)
[debug] [twitter] Extracting URL: https://twitter.com/[UserID]/status/[TweetID]
[twitter] [TweetID]: Downloading guest token
ERROR: [twitter] [TweetID]: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden (caused by <HTTPError 403: 'Forbidden'>); please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp , filling out the "Broken site" issue template properly. Confirm you are on the latest version using -U (caused by <HTTPError 403: 'Forbidden'>); please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp , filling out the "Broken site" issue template properly. Confirm you are on the latest version using -U
  File "yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 730, in _request_webpage
  File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 3558, in urlopen
  File "urllib\request.py", line 531, in open
  File "urllib\request.py", line 640, in http_response
  File "urllib\request.py", line 569, in error
  File "urllib\request.py", line 502, in _call_chain
  File "urllib\request.py", line 649, in http_error_default