youtube-dl: Youtube: authentication failure
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Add the -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with (youtube-dl -v <your command line>), copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u':ytwatchlater', u'-u', u'PRIVATE', u'-p', u'PRIVATE', u'-s', u'-j', u'--flat-playlist', u'--write-pages']
WARNING: Assuming --restrict-filenames since file system encoding cannot encode all characters. Set the LC_ALL environment variable to fix this.
[debug] Encodings: locale ANSI_X3.4-1968, fs ANSI_X3.4-1968, out None, pref ANSI_X3.4-1968
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.08.04
[debug] Python version 2.7.9 (CPython) - Linux-3.14.0-kirkwood-tld-1-armv5tel-with-debian-8.10
[debug] exe versions: avconv 11.11-6, avprobe 11.11-6, ffmpeg 0.8.21-6
[debug] Proxy map: {}
WARNING: Unable to login: Invalid password
ERROR: This playlist does not exist.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 792, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 502, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 2801, in _real_extract
_, playlist = self._extract_playlist('WL')
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 2316, in _extract_playlist
raise ExtractorError(message, expected=True)
ExtractorError: This playlist does not exist.
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Youtube fails to authenticate. Looks like the sign-in page has been redesigned again. Previous reference: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/12973
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- State: closed
- Created 6 years ago
- Comments: 18 (2 by maintainers)
https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#how-do-i-pass-cookies-to-youtube-dl
This report is still open, right? I’m getting the same “Invalid password” warning and videos are not being marked as watched. Version 2019.11.28, tested today.
From README.md: