Youtube URLs -J return 403 sometimes

[nadermx]

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I'm currently using youtube-dl to get the URL of the video, via this command.

youtube-dl -f bestaudio --no-cache-dir --geo-bypass --restrict-filenames -J --cookies cookies.txt youtubeURL

From there I am taking that URL, on the same server, and using ffmpeg's -i, with the -headers by sending the cookie and the headers, but I still get a decent amount of 403 errores.

Is there a reason this would happen? Given that it is on the same IP as the initial scrape? Should I use -g instead?

[dstftw]

If downloading via youtube-dl itself does not result in 403 then you are most likely not passing headers/cookies correctly.

[nadermx]

@dstftw by chance do you have a example of a get request sent with headers? My current request header sends the cookie and headers like so

 "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 -
Range: bytes=0-
Connection: close
Host: localhost:8000
Icy-MetaData: 1
Cookie: GPS=1; PREF=f1=50000000&hl=en; VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=YYVg5wZlZM4; YSC=nqFTzbjynHk; s_gl=1d69aac621b2f9c0a25dade722d6e24bcwIAAABVUw==
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5

[dstftw]

See --print-traffic.