I have installed the following packages with pip (Python 3.12) on Windows 11:
$ pip list
Package Version
------------------------- ------------
...
bgutil-ytdlp-pot-provider 1.3.0
...
yt-dlp 2026.2.21
yt-dlp-ejs 0.5.0
The way I use yt-dlp and this POT Provider Plugin is in a powershell script. To put it simply it calls the pot server function
function PotServer {
try {
Push-Location ~/bgutil-ytdlp-pot-provider/server
deno run --no-prompt --allow-env --allow-net --allow-ffi=. --allow-read=. --allow-sys ./src/main.ts --port 8080
}
finally {Pop-Location}through this:
# Start PotServer as a background job
$POT = Start-ThreadJob -ScriptBlock ${function:PotServer}
# Wait for server to be ready
do { Start-Sleep -Seconds 1 }
until ((Test-NetConnection -ComputerName localhost -Port 8080).TcpTestSucceeded) Before executing this yt-dlp command:
yt-dlp -v --add-metadata -P "$Directory" "$Link" --% --cookies "~/Downloads/cookies.txt" --windows-filenames --continue -f "bv*+mergeall[format_id*='251']/bv*+ba" --audio-multistreams -S quality,vcodec:av1:vp9:h264,acodec:opus:aac --embed-chapters --embed-thumbnail --embed-subs --compat-options no-live-chat --concat-playlist never --sub-lang all --convert-subs ass --merge-output-format mkv --extractor-args "youtube:player-client=default,mweb,web_safari,tv_embedded" --extractor-args "youtubepot-bgutilhttp:base_url=http://localhost:8080"
I would expect that this is sufficient to use this POT Provider, after all I just followed the documentaion. However, I noticed that during execution there is this:
[debug] [youtube] [pot:bgutil:script-node] No server_home or script_path passed, defaulting to ~\bgutil-ytdlp-pot-provider\server
[debug] [youtube] [pot:bgutil:script-node] Script path doesn't exist: ~\bgutil-ytdlp-pot-provider\server\build\generate_once.js
[debug] [youtube] [pot:bgutil:script-deno] No server_home or script_path passed, defaulting to ~\bgutil-ytdlp-pot-provider\server
┏ ⚠️ Deno requests sys access to "osRelease".
┠─ Requested by `Deno.osRelease()` API.
┠─ To see a stack trace for this prompt, set the DENO_TRACE_PERMISSIONS environmental variable.
┠─ Learn more at: https://docs.deno.com/go/--allow-sys
┠─ Run again with --allow-sys to bypass this prompt.
┗ Allow? [y/n/A] (y = yes, allow; n = no, deny; A = allow all sys permissions) >
Even though I specified --no-prompt and --allow-sys it still asks for sys access. So it seems to me as if yt-dlp uses it's own way of retrieving a gvs token? It does work after allowing the prompt, but it still seems to be as if the plugin isn't being used properly?
Granted all sys access.
[debug] [youtube] [pot] PO Token Providers: bgutil:http-1.3.0 (external), bgutil:script-node-1.3.0 (external, unavailable), bgutil:script-deno-1.3.0 (external)
[debug] [youtube] [pot] PO Token Cache Providers: memory
[debug] [youtube] [pot] PO Token Cache Spec Providers: webpo
[debug] [youtube] [jsc] JS Challenge Providers: bun (unavailable), deno, node (unavailable), quickjs (unavailable)
...
[debug] [youtube] JR59JZxxt5U: Retrieved a gvs PO Token for mweb client
...
[download] Resuming download at byte 8387584
Oh and when changing the port from 4416 to 8000 which I did here I also get this error:
WARNING: [youtube] [pot:bgutil:http] Error reaching GET http://127.0.0.1:4416/ping (caused by TransportError). Please make sure that the server is reachable at http://127.0.0.1:4416.
which seems to tie back to this:
[debug] [youtube] [pot:bgutil:http] No base_url provided, defaulting to http://127.0.0.1:4416
Even though I did provide a base_url.
What am I doing wrong?
(If it is of any use, my complete script is here: https://github.com/VinVel/useful-powershell-scripts/blob/main/YTDL.ps1)
I have installed the following packages with pip (Python 3.12) on Windows 11:
The way I use yt-dlp and this POT Provider Plugin is in a powershell script. To put it simply it calls the pot server function
through this:
Before executing this yt-dlp command:
yt-dlp -v --add-metadata -P "$Directory" "$Link" --% --cookies "~/Downloads/cookies.txt" --windows-filenames --continue -f "bv*+mergeall[format_id*='251']/bv*+ba" --audio-multistreams -S quality,vcodec:av1:vp9:h264,acodec:opus:aac --embed-chapters --embed-thumbnail --embed-subs --compat-options no-live-chat --concat-playlist never --sub-lang all --convert-subs ass --merge-output-format mkv --extractor-args "youtube:player-client=default,mweb,web_safari,tv_embedded" --extractor-args "youtubepot-bgutilhttp:base_url=http://localhost:8080"I would expect that this is sufficient to use this POT Provider, after all I just followed the documentaion. However, I noticed that during execution there is this:
Even though I specified --no-prompt and --allow-sys it still asks for sys access. So it seems to me as if yt-dlp uses it's own way of retrieving a gvs token? It does work after allowing the prompt, but it still seems to be as if the plugin isn't being used properly?
Oh and when changing the port from 4416 to 8000 which I did here I also get this error:
which seems to tie back to this:
Even though I did provide a base_url.
What am I doing wrong?
(If it is of any use, my complete script is here: https://github.com/VinVel/useful-powershell-scripts/blob/main/YTDL.ps1)