Unable to download YouTube Watch Later playlist
See original GitHub issueChecklist
- 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
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- Created 2 years ago
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- Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)
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From the link:
These extensions will create a cookies.txt file you pass with
--cookies
paramThough, 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.
you need to use cookies, logging in with user/password currently does not work.