Download youtube private or member videos

youtube-dl.txt

#single video
youtube-dl --cookies youtube.com_cookies.txt "URL"

#playlist
youtube-dl --yes-playlist --cookies youtube.com_cookies.txt "URL"

You can use: --playlist-start, --playlist-end, --playlist-reverse or --playlist-items to achieve this goal.

#Note: cookie should be in Netscape format

Addons
#https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/get-cookiestxt/bgaddhkoddajcdgocldbbfleckgcbcid
#https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookies-txt/

python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip
pip install yt-dlp
yt-dlp --yes-playlist --playlist-start 16 --cookies cookies.txt "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?"

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest.py | python -


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Youtube-dl multiple videos download from a file.

yt-dlp.exe -a file.txt

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Subtitile & Video Resolution:

yt-dlp --list-subs --cookies youtube_cookie.txt URL

yt-dlp --write-auto-sub --sub-format srt --sub-lang en --skip-download --cookies youtube_cookie.txt URL


To select the video quality, first use the -F option to list the available formats, here’s an example,

youtube-dl -F URL

The best quality is 22 so use -f 22 instead of -F to download the MP4 video with 1280x720 resolution like this:

youtube-dl -f 22 URL

For those of you who encounter an error like this:

[download] Got error: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden. Retrying fragment 1 (1/10)...
[download] Got error: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden. Retrying fragment 1 (2/10)...
[download] Got error: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden. Retrying fragment 1 (3/10)...

You can try installing Deno, then run a command similar to the following:
(I am using python 3.11 and deno 2.6.5)

py -3.11 -m yt_dlp ^
-f "bv*[vcodec^=avc1]+ba/b" ^
--cookies cookies.txt ^
--extractor-args "youtube:player-client=default,-web_safari" ^
--remote-components ejs:github ^
--merge-output-format mp4 ^
--socket-timeout 60 ^
--retries infinite ^
--retry-sleep 10 ^
-k ^
"CHANGE_WITH_YOUTUBE_VIDEO_URL"

I have already tried downloading a youtube members only video, and it worked

Hope this helps!

How to download youtube members only video, I am not a member

you can't

Not possible Purchase the video by joining membership gopal

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How to download youtube members only video, I am not a member

you can't

You need membership

after done all videos then ask a refund so you get free