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Download youtube private or member videos
#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
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python -m yt_dlp --cookies cookies.txt --remote-components ejs:npm -f "bv*+ba/b" --merge-output-format mp4 "Video/PlayList Link"

It happened correctly in the first try but when I went to try again it messed up and is saying that you need to have a membership. Why so?

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