ERROR: This video can't be played here, but you can still watch it on YouTube.

[Mahkahe]

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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 ```):

$ youtube-dl -v 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgcrtvomXoI'
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgcrtvomXoI']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.11.07
[debug] Python version 3.7.1 (CPython) - Linux-4.18.16-arch1-1-ARCH-x86_64-with-arch
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg n4.1, ffprobe n4.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] EgcrtvomXoI: Downloading webpage
[youtube] EgcrtvomXoI: Downloading embed webpage
[youtube] EgcrtvomXoI: Refetching age-gated info webpage
ERROR: This video can't be played here, but you can still watch it on YouTube. Watch on YouTube
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 792, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 508, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1920, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError(error_message, expected=True)
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: This video can't be played here, but you can still watch it on YouTube. Watch on YouTube

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

I notice that most age-gated or otherwise restricted content are able to be downloaded using youtube-dl, but I've run into a few examples of videos which youtube-dl is unable to download, simply printing the error "ERROR: This video can't be played here, but you can still watch it on YouTube. Watch on YouTube". I'm not really sure why this is, as other videos in the same "limited" state work with ytdl.

Thank you

[dstftw]

You must authenticate to download this video.

[ghost]

@dstftw How do you authenticate? I've been trying to download by whole channels but once youtube-dl hits a video that is restricted it says "ERROR: This video can't be played here, but you can still watch it on YouTube. Watch on YouTube" and it seems I cannot even skip that specific video and continue to download the rest of the channel.

[pzygielo]

Study https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#options
(you'll find option to Continue on download errors, for example to skip unavailable videos in a playlist there).