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YT age restricted bypass broken since today

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Description

YT age restricted videos are no more fetchable since today.

Verbose log

$ yt-dlp --cookies cookies.txt --verbose  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlPNnVEINMM
[debug] Command-line config: ['--cookies', 'cookies.txt', '--verbose', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlPNnVEINMM']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, err utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] yt-dlp version 2022.02.04 [c1653e9ef]
[debug] Lazy loading extractors is disabled
[debug] Python version 3.8.10 (CPython 64bit) - Linux-5.4.0-92-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.29
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.4, ffprobe 4.2.4
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome, secretstorage, mutagen, sqlite, websockets
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] [youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlPNnVEINMM
[youtube] wlPNnVEINMM: Downloading webpage
[debug] [youtube] Extracted SAPISID cookie
[youtube] wlPNnVEINMM: Downloading android player API JSON
[youtube] wlPNnVEINMM: Downloading android agegate player API JSON
[youtube] wlPNnVEINMM: Downloading web agegate player API JSON
ERROR: [youtube] wlPNnVEINMM: Verify your age. Complete a brief check to show you're old enough to watch this video. Learn more
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 615, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py", line 3251, in _real_extract
    self.raise_no_formats(reason, expected=True)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 1123, in raise_no_formats
    raise ExtractorError(msg, expected=expected, video_id=video_id)


$ yt-dlp --cookies cookies.txt --verbose  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da1CS0jlgYw
[debug] Command-line config: ['--cookies', 'cookies.txt', '--verbose', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da1CS0jlgYw']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, err utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] yt-dlp version 2022.02.04 [c1653e9ef]
[debug] Lazy loading extractors is disabled
[debug] Python version 3.8.10 (CPython 64bit) - Linux-5.4.0-92-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.29
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.4, ffprobe 4.2.4
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome, secretstorage, mutagen, sqlite, websockets
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] [youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da1CS0jlgYw
[youtube] da1CS0jlgYw: Downloading webpage
[debug] [youtube] Extracted SAPISID cookie
[youtube] da1CS0jlgYw: Downloading android player API JSON
[youtube] da1CS0jlgYw: Downloading android agegate player API JSON
[youtube] da1CS0jlgYw: Downloading web agegate player API JSON
ERROR: [youtube] da1CS0jlgYw: Verify your age. Complete a brief check to show you're old enough to watch this video. Learn more
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 615, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py", line 3251, in _real_extract
    self.raise_no_formats(reason, expected=True)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 1123, in raise_no_formats
    raise ExtractorError(msg, expected=expected, video_id=video_id)

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 2 years ago
  • Comments:6 (2 by maintainers)

github_iconTop GitHub Comments

1reaction
nastia-diaphancommented, Feb 19, 2022

It work. Dumps sent by email to @pukkandan. Thank you

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nastia-diaphancommented, Feb 19, 2022

Current master is working. Thank you

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