ERROR: [youtube] : Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot. This helps protect our community

[YifanXu74]

Hi,

I recently tried downloading the dataset, but it comes out such error:

ERROR: [youtube] ---LyFa59Go: Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot. This helps protect our community

It seems that YouTube has updated some policies to block web crawlers using yt-dlp. I tried to address the problem using a solution here, but but soon hit the request limit and was blocked again, see:

[youtube+oauth2] -2WrOGUnUHM: You’ve hit the request limit.. Your limits will reset soon, usually within an hour.

This dataset is important for my research. I'd appreciate any clues or solutions on this problem!

[sun-yanjun]

Hi, have you solved this problem? I’m facing the same issue.

[Chuge0335]

Same error, is there any better solutions?

[DmytroUsenko]

I'll subscribe to this error as well. I got the same thing using youtube-dl, though.

[Abdurrafey-Siddiqui]

Same error, subscribed

[taiyouZhang]

same

[GizuMoca]

Has anyone found a solution?
How many accesses will cause the limit?

[Chuge0335]

Same error

[weihxx]

Same error

[Hzzone]

This issue usually arises when using yb-dlp to download YouTube videos, which I also experienced. You can resolve it by exporting cookies from your web browser to facilitate video downloads. However, be aware that YouTube may ban your account.

[DmytroUsenko]

This issue usually arises when using yb-dlp to download YouTube videos, which I also experienced. You can resolve it by exporting cookies from your web browser to facilitate video downloads. However, be aware that YouTube may ban your account.

could you share more details please how did you pass cookies?

[Hzzone]

I used the following shell command to download videos:

command = f'yt-dlp -o {video_path} --cookies {cookies_path} -f \"{format_string}\" {url}'

I export YouTube cookies using this extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/cclelndahbckbenkjhflpdbgdldlbecc. However, cookies expire after a while, so I need a way to automatically obtain new ones.

[DmytroUsenko]

unfortunately this does not work for me (

[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAna0bJUhhw
[youtube] UAna0bJUhhw: Downloading webpage
[debug] [youtube] Extracted SAPISID cookie
[debug] [youtube] Copying __Secure-3PAPISID cookie to SAPISID cookie
[youtube] UAna0bJUhhw: Downloading ios player API JSON
[youtube] UAna0bJUhhw: Downloading web creator player API JSON
ERROR: [youtube] UAna0bJUhhw: Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot. This helps protect our community. Learn more

[DmytroUsenko]

UPD. Fixed this issue today with this: https://github.com/coletdjnz/yt-dlp-youtube-oauth2

[fangqi-Zhu]

Is it possible to integrate this process into the download tutorial for this repository?

[pikeyang]

UPD. Fixed this issue today with this: https://github.com/coletdjnz/yt-dlp-youtube-oauth2

Can you explain in detail how it was done

[deconasser]

Do you have another solution for this issues ? I found troublesome with export cookies!

[LuigiNixy]

The videos can be downloaded with pytubefix.

[jingwangsg]

@LuigiNixy Hi, can you still use pytubefix to massively download videos now?