ERROR: [youtube] : Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot.

[YifanXu74]

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!

[markus583]

+1

[jwu-sym]

I signed in to confirm I am not a bot. It looked working.
Steps :

1. My yt-dlp was installed in a linux server box, no GUI.
2. Install a docker with GUI on the same box, I used "docker run -p 6080:80 -v /dev/shm:/dev/shm dorowu/ubuntu-desktop-lxde-vnc"
3. Visit http://docker-server:6080, spawn a firefox and sign in to YouTube
4. Transfer .mozilla directory from docker root directory to yt-dlp box. that runs yt-dlp
5. alias yt-dlp='yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser firefox'
   It runs properly. Your mile might differ. The idea is 'Sign in'.

[SuhatAkbulak]

+1