[TikTok] 403 for "friends-only" videos when downloading via profile

[jb2170]

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Region

UK

Description

Whilst #2142 mostly fixes #2135, friends-only videos raise a 403 when downloading a profile via --cookies "mycookies.txt" "https://www.tiktok.com/@example_username".

Note that downloading a friends-only video directly via "https://www.tiktok.com/@example_username/video/id" works.

Verbose log

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[download] Downloading video 7 of 8
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo*+bestaudio/best
[info] [video-id redacted]: Downloading 1 format(s): h264_540p_1234567-1
[debug] Invoking downloader on "https://video-va.tiktokv.com/006579b458ceeeed01e0710c96a0eeee/ff52ffcd/tos-useast5-pve-0068-tx/41e424aaae492b26d333b28c8c69233d?a=0000&br=1111&bt=2222&cd=0000&ch=0&cr=0&cs=0&dr=0&ds=0&er=&ft=Zab9Feg3wPZ1-I&l=2021123000000000000000000000000000&lr=&mime_type=video_mp4&net=0&pl=0&policy=0000&qs=0&rc=000000&vl=&vr="
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/jb2170/Repositories/_Others/Other People/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 2991, in process_info
    success, real_download = self.dl(temp_filename, info_dict)
  File "/home/jb2170/Repositories/_Others/Other People/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 2701, in dl
    return fd.download(name, new_info, subtitle)
  File "/home/jb2170/Repositories/_Others/Other People/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/downloader/common.py", line 440, in download
    ret = self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
  File "/home/jb2170/Repositories/_Others/Other People/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/downloader/http.py", line 371, in real_download
    establish_connection()
  File "/home/jb2170/Repositories/_Others/Other People/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/downloader/http.py", line 119, in establish_connection
    raise err
  File "/home/jb2170/Repositories/_Others/Other People/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/downloader/http.py", line 113, in establish_connection
    ctx.data = self.ydl.urlopen(request)
  File "/home/jb2170/Repositories/_Others/Other People/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 3457, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 525, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 634, in http_response
    response = self.parent.error(
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 563, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 496, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 643, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
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