Unable to download Private YouTube video with correct username/password

[vkchan]

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I'm getting an error when I try to download a private youtube video that I have subscribed to. I am certain that my username and password are correct. I have reviewed the previous closed issue and added double quote around the email address/username but it still doesn't work.

Here are my error messages. Any suggestion?

ubuntu:~$ youtube-dl -f bestvideo+bestaudio -ciw -o "/videos/%(title)s.%(ext)s" -u "USERNAME@gmail.com" -p "PASSWORD" --ffmpeg-location /usr/bin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEOCODE --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-f', u'bestvideo+bestaudio', u'-ciw', u'-o', u'/videos/%(title)s.%(ext)s', u'-u', u'PRIVATE', u'-p', u'PRIVATE', u'--ffmpeg-location', u'/usr/bin', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEOCODE', u'--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.03.22
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 - Linux-4.4.0-66-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-16.04-xenial
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, ffprobe 2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Downloading login page
[youtube] Logging in
[youtube] VIDEOCODE: Downloading webpage
[youtube] VIDEOCODE: Downloading video info webpage
ERROR: lesiYZMTczk: YouTube said: This video is private.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 761, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 428, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1392, in _real_extract
    expected=True, video_id=video_id)
ExtractorError: VIDEOCODE: YouTube said: This video is private.

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[vkchan]

Solved. Not a youtube-dl issue. It turns out it was because my gmail is linked to more than one youtube accounts, and the youtube account that was entitled was not the default one. When I set it to be the default account, youtube-dl works perfectly. Thanks.