Add support for YouTube member only live stream.

[MinkiNTN]

I noticed when trying to download chat replay from a YouTube "member only" live stream, the program returns Video does not have a chat replay., which is not true. Is it possible to add support so that chat replay can be downloaded from these streams by passing in a suitable cookie?

[xenova]

This is a great idea! 👍 I unfortunately don't have any videos to test on (since I am not a member of any channel). Could I perhaps let you test the code before I add these changes to the master branch? The relevant lines of code are 116-129.
chat_replay_downloader.zip

You should be able to pass a cookies.txt file with -cookies <file>. For example:
python chat_replay_downloader.py <url> -cookies cookies.txt

Let me know if that works! 😃

[MinkiNTN]

I just tested and it works prefectly 👍

Another question that I think is kinda related (since I'm not that good with Python :D): I'm importing your script like this from chat_replay_downloader import get_youtube_messages, how would I insert the cookies to that because I think it happens before.

[xenova]

Okay great! 👍

Oh right, I should explicitly mention how to import from the main module in the README. You can do so as follows:

from chat_replay_downloader import ChatReplayDownloader

session = ChatReplayDownloader(cookies='cookies.txt')
youtube_messages = session.get_youtube_messages('id')
# or
messages = session.get_chat_replay('url')

[MinkiNTN]

Awesome! Thanks again for the great work 👍

I don't know if I should close the issue so I'm gonna leave you to it.

[xenova]

I'll close it with the next update! 😃