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Unable to download YouTube Watch Later playlist

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Checklist

  • I’m reporting a broken site support
  • I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dl version 2021.05.16
  • 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

Verbose log

youtube-dl -u account@gmail.com -j --flat-playlist "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=WL"
Type account password and press [Return]: 
WARNING: Unable to look up account info: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request
ERROR: The playlist does not exist.

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 2 years ago
  • Reactions:2
  • Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

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coletdjnzcommented, May 28, 2021

From the link:

In order to extract cookies from browser use any conforming browser extension for exporting cookies. For example, Get cookies.txt (for Chrome) or cookies.txt (for Firefox).

These extensions will create a cookies.txt file you pass with --cookies param

Though, if you have >100 videos in the playlist, youtube-dl won’t be able to grab them all anyways (https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28362), so making it public (or unlisted) might be the easier way to go.

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coletdjnzcommented, May 28, 2021

you need to use cookies, logging in with user/password currently does not work.

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