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Add Support for YouTube Channels Owned by a Google+ Page

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The issue

YouTube videos can not only be owned by users, but by Google+ pages as well. Please add support for authenticating as a Google+ Page, so that we can download our private YouTube videos from these channels.

Thanks!

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Created 7 years ago
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RyanRosariocommented, Oct 29, 2017

This would be really useful. In my case, I want to download my “Watch Later” but when I use my Google Gmail login, it defaults to my personal account that’s tied to my Gmail, whereas the only YouTube account I use is this secondary brand account (it’s actually a legacy account that was created way before the Google/YouTube merger occurred). There is no way to login to it directly. I must login to my personal YouTube using my Gmail, and then “Switch Accounts” to get into the other one. There must be some information that can be passed with the cookies at login to switch the account.

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kjp111commented, Feb 22, 2018

Select your account icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen. Select settings. In overview (the settings landing page) select advanced to the right of the account avatar/icon. Scan the options for setting the account as the default account. This will cause the account to be default upon logging in, and the watch later playlist for this account will come up with the https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=WL URL. Youtube-dl will download this watch later playlist.

To reset another account as default, follow the same steps within that account.