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?"

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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

Hi sathishshan , how can i download youtube membersonly videos ,can you please help me

Try the below actions, it will work for sure, if not working let me know the error you are facing.

Take the cookies from youtube.com with browser addon given below and use in command line tool to download.
#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 --cookies cookies.txt "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?"