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Video truncation downloading from Curiosity Stream

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Hey guys,

Question; I’m trying to download videos from CuriosityStream so I can watch them offline at leisure

I’ve double checked and it’s listed as a supported website.
I have a valid login & a cookies.txt that includes the auth_token (among others) for the curiosity stream domain

When I point youtube-dl at a CuriosityStream URL it downloads the first 2 minutes of the video & then moves on to the next (it still follows a playlist successfully & pulls the first 2 mins of each video). Regardless of whether I give it a cookies file or not it always grabs the first 2 mins … for some reason (I kind of expected it to fail without cookies at all).

I’m using:

youtube-dl -ci -o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' --cookies cookies.txt --restrict-filenames [url]

Curious for any tips for downloading full length videos from CuriousityStream & thoughts on what I am doing wrong!?

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Created 3 years ago
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ewtoombscommented, Apr 26, 2021

@nathanfranke I have observed the same error. It looks like CS has changed their API slightly. Authentication no longer works. But it is a separate issue.

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voidshardcommented, Apr 8, 2021

Hey @nathanfranke I believe using -u and -p solved it for me