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Download youtube private or member videos
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| #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 - | |
| ------------- | |
| Youtube-dl multiple videos download from a file. | |
| yt-dlp.exe -a file.txt | |
| ------------- | |
| 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 |
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Let me clarify. The YouTube app itself doesn't allow this. Even if it lets you download videos, as far as I know, they're only stored on your device in an encrypted format, and the video can only be played in the YouTube app.
I recently joined a YouTube channel and purchased a channel membership. Then I tried downloading one of the members-only videos using yt-dlp, and it still works with the latest version of yt-dlp. These are the commands I used:
This command is used to check which audio and video streams are available:
This command is used to download the video:
You can still use this extension to export the cookies in Netscape format: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/get-cookiestxt-locally/cclelndahbckbenkjhflpdbgdldlbecc
I'm using Python 3.11.9 and yt-dlp 2026.07.04, and here's a screenshot as proof: