The command I use on macOS fails on Chrome OS since the Linux container can not access the Chrome profile to get the cookies:
$ yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser chrome --max-downloads 10 --sponsorblock-remove default :ytwatchlater
[Cookies] Extracting cookies from chrome
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/runpy.py", line 197, in _run_module_as_main
return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File "/usr/local/bin/yt-dlp/__main__.py", line 17, in <module>
File "/usr/local/bin/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/__init__.py", line 953, in main
File "/usr/local/bin/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/__init__.py", line 915, in _real_main
File "/usr/local/bin/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 715, in __init__
File "/usr/local/bin/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 3764, in _setup_opener
File "/usr/local/bin/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/cookies.py", line 89, in load_cookies
File "/usr/local/bin/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/cookies.py", line 110, in extract_cookies_from_browser
File "/usr/local/bin/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/cookies.py", line 246, in _extract_chrome_cookies
FileNotFoundError: could not find chrome cookies database in "/home/voglerr/.config/google-chrome"According to chrome://version/ 'Profile Path' is /home/chronos/u-9... and unsurprisingly this is not mapped into the Linux container:
la /home /mnt/chromeos
/home:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 1 voglerr voglerr 620 Aug 21 15:41 voglerr
/mnt/chromeos:
total 4.0K
drwxr-xr-x 14 nobody nogroup 4.0K Jul 31 07:00 fonts
Besides --cookies-from-browser chrome, yt-dlp also has --cookies FILE ('Netscape formatted file to read cookies from and dump cookie jar in').
Can't just copy from Chrome Dev Tools, but need to convert to Netscape format via https://github.com/dandv/convert-chrome-cookies-to-netscape-format
- Create folder in Files app, right click > Share with Linux - we don't want to fill up the 6.3GB free on the 10GB container (running out of space somehow broke the container (freed up space, still did not start new shells, reboot, it created a new user, old one did not work anymore))
cd /mnt/chromeos/MyFiles/yt-dlp(depends on which folder you created)- Visit https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=WL
- Chrome Dev Tools (Ctrl-Shift-I) > Application > Storage > Cookies
- Select all, right click, Copy, Paste into
cookies-ch node convert-chrome-cookies-to-netscape-format/convert-cookies.js cookies-ch > cookies-nsyt-dlp --cookies cookies-ns --max-downloads 10 :ytwatchlater
Due to a bug in ffmpeg (cut/merge of VP9 videos, yt-dlp issue), --sponsorblock-remove did not work and left behind temporary files.
The bug is present after version 3.0.1 and before version 5.1.
Debian bullseye version is 4.3.4, snap is even 4.3.1.
The following will download a patched version of ffmpeg (no need for ffplay, ffprobe) from https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds to /usr/local/bin which fixes the sponsorblock issue for yt-dlp.
cd /usr/local/bin && wget -qO- https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds/releases/download/latest/ffmpeg-master-latest-linux64-gpl.tar.xz | sudo tar -xJ ffmpeg-master-latest-linux64-gpl/bin/ffmpeg --strip-components 2yt-dlp --cookies cookies-ns --max-downloads 10 --sponsorblock-remove default :ytwatchlater