[Youtube]Cannot download private video with username and password

Checklist

• I’m reporting a broken site support
• I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dl version 2021.02.10
• 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

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--ignore-config', '-v', '-u', 'PRIVATE', 'https://youtu.be/GccIPxHQodc']
Type account password and press [Return]: 
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.02.10
[debug] Python version 3.8.5 (CPython) - Linux-5.4.0-58-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.29
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.4, ffprobe 4.2.4, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Downloading login page
[youtube] Looking up account info
WARNING: Unable to look up account info: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request
[youtube] GccIPxHQodc: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Private video
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 806, in wrapper
    return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 827, in __extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 532, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1630, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError(reason, expected=True)
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Private video
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$ echo $?
1

Description

Hi,

I cannot download any YouTube private video with username and password, can you help ? My video will be published soon so it will download soon. But you can try with any of your private video to investigate this.

Thanks for the great job you’ve done so far, god bless you !

[october262]

try using the cookies.file

[DDvO]

As mentioned above, a workaround is to log in to YouTube on a browser, copy (e.g. using a browser extension) the cookies stored for the youtube.com domain to a text file and pass the resulting file to youtube-dl via the --cookies option.

Since many users have this problem, see also #26196, I wonder why youtube-dl does not give this hint upon

ERROR: Private video

or at least upon the more specific

WARNING: Unable to look up account info: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request