YouTube age restriction

Checklist

• I’m reporting a broken site support issue
• I’ve checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dl version 2021.06.06
• I’ve checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• I’ve searched the bugtracker for similar bug reports including closed ones
• I’ve read bugs section in FAQ

Verbose log

$ youtube-dl -v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irauhITDrsE
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irauhITDrsE']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.06.06
[debug] Python version 3.8.10 (CPython) - Linux-5.4.0-77-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.29
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.4, ffprobe 4.2.4, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] irauhITDrsE: Downloading webpage
[youtube] irauhITDrsE: Refetching age-gated info webpage
WARNING: unable to download video info webpage: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
ERROR: Sign in to confirm your age
This video may be inappropriate for some users.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 815, in wrapper
    return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 836, in __extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 534, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1713, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError(reason, expected=True)
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Sign in to confirm your age
This video may be inappropriate for some users.

Description

When I try to download age restricted videos it, tells me to sign in to a verified account, which I don’t have. An option to bypass this shit without a slow vpn or proxy would be great. I’m really sure there is a way of doing this, for example FreeTube can play all restricted videos without problems.

[rautamiekka]

@pukkandan do we know when the next release is coming?

Just download the whole repo and run python youtube_dl/__main__.py with your flags/params like you did with a release one.

[coletdjnz]

New tier 2 age-gate bypass using the new API (no auth required!): https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/574#issuecomment-887171136