[Pornhub] Cannot download private videos even with --cookies

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Add the -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with (youtube-dl -v <your command line>), copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

$ python -m youtube_dl -v -s https://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ph5a91d5f3709a8 --cookies cookies.txt 
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '-s', 'https://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ph5a91d5f3709a8', '--cookies', 'cookies.txt']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp1252, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.02.22
[debug] Git HEAD: 300148b
[debug] Python version 3.5.2 (CPython) - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-75976-gd59bfcd, ffprobe N-75976-gd59bfcd
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[PornHub] ph5a91d5f3709a8: Downloading webpage
ERROR: ph5a91d5f3709a8: PornHub said: Sorry, but this video is private. You must be friends with asjddsjfadsjk to view this video.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Eitan\mine\programming\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 785, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "C:\Users\Eitan\mine\programming\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 440, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "C:\Users\Eitan\mine\programming\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\extractor\pornhub.py", line 238, in _real_extract
    expected=True, video_id=video_id)
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: ph5a91d5f3709a8: PornHub said: Sorry, but this video is private. You must be friends with asjddsjfadsjk to view this video.

cookies.txt (just as an example):

# Netscape HTTP Cookie File
.pornhub.com	TRUE	/	FALSE	1574537958	_ga	GA1.2.1603300915.1511465945
.pornhub.com	TRUE	/	FALSE	3354375139	bs	mk81f1s9d231mcphc8z3f9bg7cnk1dby
.pornhub.com	TRUE	/	FALSE	1519593090	desired_username	asjddsjfadsjk%7Casjddsjfadsjk%40getnada.com
.pornhub.com	TRUE	/	FALSE	1522185176	expiredEnterModalShown	1
.pornhub.com	TRUE	/	FALSE	2895287351	platform	pc
.pornhub.com	TRUE	/	FALSE	1551043569	ss	579789539714731287
.pornhub.com	TRUE	/	FALSE	3223004990	userSession	tu7w3rvvdhpme351lwf7qf17pm99xidm

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

I logged in from Firefox, verified that I can watch the video, exported my cookies and fed the resulting cookies.txt to youtube-dl, yet it still says "You must be friends with so-and-so".

Here are the credentials for the video if anybody wants to use it to test:

https://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ph5a91d5f3709a8
username asjddsjfadsjk
password asjddsjfadsjkasjddsjfadsjk

For a Youtube private video the --cookies argument does work. According to #8603, --cookies did work with Pornhub as of 2016-02-16. Also, curl does work with the same cookies.txt (curl -b cookies.txt https://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ph5a91d5f3709a8 | grep mediastring) so maybe I'm just doing something wrong.

[epostavs]

Please use this account:

username asjddsjfadsjk
password asjddsjfadsjkasjddsjfadsjk

[epostavs]

Yeah I really don't get it. I can't manage to log in programmatically at all. I copied Firefox's requests exactly as curl commands, only substituting the random token, and yet still it rejects my login attempt, giving "Session timed out - reload and try again". Script below:

#!/usr/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

cookie_jar=curl-cookies.txt
curl_cmd='curl -s -f --cookie-jar curl-cookies.txt -D /dev/stderr'

rm -f "$cookie_jar"

function sleep_random() {
echo >&2 'sleeping between requests...'
sleep $(( 2 + ( RANDOM % 4 ) ))
sleep $(printf '%.4f\n' ".$RANDOM")
}

login_page=$($curl_cmd "https://www.pornhub.com/login" \
-H "Host: www.pornhub.com" \
-H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0" \
-H "Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8" \
-H "Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5" --compressed \
-H "DNT: 1" \
-H "Connection: keep-alive" \
-H "Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1")

redirect=$(echo "$login_page"|sed -nr 's/.*redirect" value="(.+?)".*/\1/p'|uniq)
token=$(echo "$login_page"|sed -nr 's/.*token" value="(.+?)".*/\1/p'|uniq)

if [[ -z $redirect || -z $token ]]
    then
    echo >&2 'Could not extract hidden inputs'
    exit 1
fi

echo >&2 "redirect=$redirect"
echo >&2 "token=$token"
cat >&2 "$cookie_jar"
# exit

$curl_cmd "https://www.pornhub.com/front/menu_community?token=$token" -H "Host: www.pornhub.com" -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0" -H "Accept: */*" -H "Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5" --compressed -H "X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest" -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8" -H "Referer: https://www.pornhub.com/login" -H "DNT: 1" -H "Connection: keep-alive" >/dev/null
$curl_cmd "https://www.pornhub.com/front/menu_livesex?token=$token" -H "Host: www.pornhub.com" -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0" -H "Accept: */*" -H "Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5" --compressed -H "X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest" -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8" -H "Referer: https://www.pornhub.com/login" -H "DNT: 1" -H "Connection: keep-alive" >/dev/null
$curl_cmd "https://www.pornhub.com/front/menu_photos?token=$token" -H "Host: www.pornhub.com" -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0" -H "Accept: */*" -H "Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5" --compressed -H "X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest" -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8" -H "Referer: https://www.pornhub.com/login" -H "DNT: 1" -H "Connection: keep-alive" >/dev/null

sleep_random
$curl_cmd "https://www.pornhub.com/front/authenticate" \
-H "Host: www.pornhub.com" \
-H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0" \
-H "Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01" \
-H "Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5" --compressed \
-H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8" \
-H "X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest" \
-H "Referer: https://www.pornhub.com/login" \
-H "DNT: 1" \
-H "Connection: keep-alive" --data "loginPage=1&redirect=$redirect&token=$token&taste_profile=&username=asjddsjfadsjk&password=asjddsjfadsjkasjddsjfadsjk&remember_me=on" \
| head

Is there something other than headers, cookies, and POST data that needs to be faked?

[einstein95]

This patch fixes it

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/pornhub.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/pornhub.py
index 281a4f05e..5afa35dd2 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/pornhub.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/pornhub.py
@@ -116,11 +116,11 @@ class PornHubIE(InfoExtractor):
         video_id = self._match_id(url)
 
         def dl_webpage(platform):
+            self._set_cookie('pornhub.com', 'age_verified', '1')
+            self._set_cookie('pornhub.com', 'platform', platform)
             return self._download_webpage(
                 'http://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=%s' % video_id,
-                video_id, headers={
-                    'Cookie': 'age_verified=1; platform=%s' % platform,
-                })
+                video_id)
 
         webpage = dl_webpage('pc')

using a cookies.txt that contains

# Netscape HTTP Cookie File
# http://curl.haxx.se/rfc/cookie_spec.html
# This is a generated file!  Do not edit.

.pornhub.com	TRUE	/	FALSE	3355496222	bs	7j74bzosuxof58vpnzq2sa0yih5e00r4
.pornhub.com	TRUE	/	FALSE	1522185176	expiredEnterModalShown	1
.pornhub.com	TRUE	/	FALSE	3223004990	il	v1ijgTdGXTZHyST9GU2E1g8rRHDPCLtMXeq846YFHV5eYxNTIwMTUyOTQwaC1GSm5pLUhqZENDTG9RWVVKTnVVaHplTmlRbVA2VlVkZnMzZ1ZWMw..
.pornhub.com	TRUE	/	FALSE	1551604111	ss	257851818681477916

it works fine

[epostavs]

Oh, yes that fixes this issue. Will you make a pull request?

[madisonaries]

I'm new to github and I was wondering if anyone can walk me through applying this patch

[cailor]

Guys i really need an help please i downloaded youtube-dl, now i can use it with the cmd but how can i use the patch and the cookies? i'm stuck

[GeneralCaos]

This patch fixes it

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/pornhub.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/pornhub.py
index 281a4f05e..5afa35dd2 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/pornhub.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/pornhub.py
@@ -116,11 +116,11 @@ class PornHubIE(InfoExtractor):
         video_id = self._match_id(url)
 
         def dl_webpage(platform):
+            self._set_cookie('pornhub.com', 'age_verified', '1')
+            self._set_cookie('pornhub.com', 'platform', platform)
             return self._download_webpage(
                 'http://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=%s' % video_id,
-                video_id, headers={
-                    'Cookie': 'age_verified=1; platform=%s' % platform,
-                })
+                video_id)
 
         webpage = dl_webpage('pc')

using a cookies.txt that contains

# Netscape HTTP Cookie File
# http://curl.haxx.se/rfc/cookie_spec.html
# This is a generated file!  Do not edit.

.pornhub.com	TRUE	/	FALSE	3355496222	bs	7j74bzosuxof58vpnzq2sa0yih5e00r4
.pornhub.com	TRUE	/	FALSE	1522185176	expiredEnterModalShown	1
.pornhub.com	TRUE	/	FALSE	3223004990	il	v1ijgTdGXTZHyST9GU2E1g8rRHDPCLtMXeq846YFHV5eYxNTIwMTUyOTQwaC1GSm5pLUhqZENDTG9RWVVKTnVVaHplTmlRbVA2VlVkZnMzZ1ZWMw..
.pornhub.com	TRUE	/	FALSE	1551604111	ss	257851818681477916

it works fine

So, how do you apply the patch?