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How to use youtube-dl --cookies
Once you get the cookies, you only need to run
youtube-dl --cookies /pathtocookiefile
If you use Chrome and accept third-party plugins to read your cookies.
Just try a Get cookies.txt chrome extension,...
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How to use youtube-dl --cookies
While this may not work for YouTube specifically, I wanted to highlight an easier approach that works well for youtube-dl to download from a site that requires login (and uses cookies to track the ...
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How to pause YouTube video via keyboard shortcut or from menu bar?
********** UPDATED SOLUTION **********
This update is a direct solution to the OP's original question.
This following AppleScript code will add a "Play/Pause YouTube" status menu item with ...
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How to use youtube-dl --cookies
This approach doesn't require installing any browser extension, which could pose a security risk, as @bgentry also pointed out.
It requires a terminal window, Node.js, and this open-source script I ...
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How to use youtube-dl --cookies
This answer doesn't require an extension and is mostly automatic.
Press Ctrl+Shift+I to open Web Developer Tools
Select the Console tab at the top of the Web Developer Tools window
Copy this code ...
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Downloading YouTube music videos
If you use command-line (Terminal.app in macOS) or even if you have a passing familiarity with it, using yt-dlp is recommended.
yt-dlp is available for macOS, Windows as well as Linux. The usage is ...
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How to use youtube-dl --cookies
While this is not a direct answer to the question, it's a much better solution: you can use a fork of youtube-dl called yt-dlp that can directly load cookies from browser databases using --cookies-...
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Is it possible to use etc/hosts to block a specific part of a whole website
No. You need a web proxy or other filter product that snoops on and processes the URL instead of just the main host.
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Does iOS AppStore prohibit Youtube Downloading apps?
Here's the official Apple guide
5.2.3 Audio/Video Downloading: Apps should not facilitate illegal file sharing or include the ability to save, convert, or download media from third party sources (...
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Downloading YouTube music videos
I use Wondershare Video Converter to extract videos from Youtube, Vimeo, etc. Just paste in the URL of the video into the interface and it will extract and convert the video into many different ...
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Error downloading YouTube video using youtube-dl
For some reason youtube-dl has cert issues. I have always found a solution by using --no-check-certificate argument.
From the man page:
--no-check-certificate
Suppress HTTPS ...
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How can I run a YouTube video in Picture in Picture mode on iOS?
iOS enables PIP easily, there are standard ways to classify all video and unless the web site takes active measures to disable PIP it just works.
Youtube has continually taken steps to disable and ...
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How to use youtube-dl --cookies
Since all of the Chrome extensions for cookies are closed-source…
F12 → Application → Storage → Cookies
Select everything manually and copy to some text file
$ cat /tmp/some-text-file.txt | awk '...
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Pause button started working for Chrome / Youtube, messing with audio player controls
This is a new feature of Chrome73, called Hardware Media Key Handling in chrome.
Enter this URL in the address bar then you can simply disable it.
chrome://flags/#hardware-media-key-handling
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"YouTube Kids" is cleaner than regular YouTube. Sadly, I haven't found any method of disabling autoplay. If it's possible, how can I disable autoplay?
I checked on iOS 12.4, YouTube kids app, there's no feature for autoplay settings. It is "on", on web and on app. Alternatively, I am not very experienced in user scripts, but can suggest a potential,...
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YouTube videos play back at unwatchably fast rate with Safari on the latest Big Sur beta... anyone else?
This is a commonly reported bug that occurs 'sometimes'. Another solution, short of rebooting, is to kill the coreaudiod process.
You can do this in Activity Monitor, or in the Terminal with sudo ...
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YouTube app won't update on iPad 3
Your iPad has been released in March of 2012 and is now eight years
old. It is normal that Apps and Apple will drop software support at some point.
iOS updates and App updates are different.
iOS is ...
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Why is Safari automatically accessing the log-in details of another app?
YouTube is owned by Google. When you use a Google app, Google records that information. When you then use a Google web page (e.g. the search engine), the Google code in the web page makes the ...
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How can I turn off restricted mode on YouTube on an iPad?
This could also be a Google Account setting either because of (1) corporate Google account domain settings, or (2) family settings.
Google Support's Turn Restricted Mode on or off on YouTube article ...
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Safari - Picture in Picture with Youtube playlist
Disable Adblocker to fix the p.i.p. playlist problem
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How do I download Youtube videos for offline viewing on an iOS device?
YouTube currently offers this within their app if you pay the premium of $9.99 USD per month for what they call YouTube Red
Key Features according to their marketing is:
YouTube Music
Ad free & ...
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YouTube at double speed on mobile
This can now be done with the latest version of Youtube Mobile App
"What's New in Version 12.33
• Adjust video playback speed with new player controls"
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Missing sound in videos recorded with iOS 11
Apparently, iOS 11 records a video with two audio tracks: the first one completely silent, while the second one is the real one. You can fix it with ffmpeg like this
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -map 0:0 -map ...
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Does iOS AppStore prohibit Youtube Downloading apps?
The general guideline is that apps must be legal and downloading youtube videos is not allowed according to their terms of service and is therefore most likely not legal.
And directly from apple:
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Keyboard shortcut to decrease playback speed on YouTube doesn't work with Chrome (on german keyboard layout?)
I have exactly the same problem and found a solution:
Go to Preferences > Keyboards > Input Sources
(Systemeinstellungen > Tastatur > Eingabequellen) and add another
keyboard layout, e.g. ...
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How do I hide the rabbits generated by the Youtube Rabbit Hole extension?
The extension itself says:
Replace suggested content with cute bunnies!
Hide comments (including livestream chats)
Disable the trending and subscriptions pages
Which means that the things hidden ...
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yt-dlp: How to download best m4a?
You are being caught out by zsh and its interpretation of the command before passing parameters to yt-dlp. It's actually zsh throwing the error. Put quotes round your parameters. Also, be sure to ...
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