[youtube] Unable to download age-gated videos.

Checklist

• I’m reporting a broken site support
• I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dl version 2021.03.14
• 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

non Cookies set.

C:\Users\PC\Downloads>youtube-dl iMJ6BNYipv0 -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['iMJ6BNYipv0', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp949, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref cp949
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.03.14
[debug] Python version 3.9.2 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.19041-SP0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.3.1, ffprobe 4.3.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] iMJ6BNYipv0: Downloading webpage
[youtube] iMJ6BNYipv0: Refetching age-gated info webpage
ERROR: Sign in to confirm your age
This video may be inappropriate for some users.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\private\python3.9.2\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 806, in wrapper
    return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "c:\private\python3.9.2\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 827, in __extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "c:\private\python3.9.2\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 534, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "c:\private\python3.9.2\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 1658, 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.

Cookies set.

C:\Users\PC\Downloads>youtube-dl --cookies cookies.txt iMJ6BNYipv0 -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--cookies', 'cookies.txt', 'iMJ6BNYipv0', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp949, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref cp949
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.03.14
[debug] Python version 3.9.2 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.19041-SP0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.3.1, ffprobe 4.3.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] iMJ6BNYipv0: Downloading webpage
ERROR: This video may be inappropriate for some users.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\private\python3.9.2\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 806, in wrapper
    return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "c:\private\python3.9.2\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 827, in __extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "c:\private\python3.9.2\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 534, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "c:\private\python3.9.2\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 1658, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError(reason, expected=True)
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: This video may be inappropriate for some users.

Description

If set cookies or not, will get this error.

[Rudbekia]

try downloading without cookies also try with a new account cookies maybe there is some problem with old account.

Not working. but works on youtube-dl 2021.01.24.1. and also not working on 2021.02.04 I don’t know the difference between the two.

[nicolaasjan]

Lol. The video that you are trying to download is of an Indian channel and It is possible that they set the video only for some countries like India and its neighbours. I live in India and so I can download the video. you can try to change country to India in your youtube account and download the video by new cookies.

I don’t really need this video; it’s a test case. But in the past I was able to bypass this by downloading via Tor with this youtube-dl option:

--proxy socks5://127.0.0.1:9150/

and setting my exit node to India and putting this in the torrc file:

ExitNodes {IN}
StrictNodes 1