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Downloading from site requiring cookies failed #25143
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No, I am not a troll. What did I do wrong? I have no cookies.txt anywhere, what the hell else was I supposed to select?
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Hopefully cookies.sqlite is the correct file, the documentation said it's a text file
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Command:
youtube-dl --cookies "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ueuez3vw.temp\cookies.sqlite" "www.webpage.com"
C:\Users\Admin>youtube-dl --cookies "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\abcdef.temp\cookies.sqlite" "www.webpage.com"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 19, in
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpybwhja3m\build\youtube_dl
init.py", line 474, in main
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpybwhja3m\build\youtube_dl
init.py", line 441, in _real_main
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpybwhja3m\build\youtube_dl
YoutubeDL.py", line 419, in init
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpybwhja3m\build\youtube_dl
YoutubeDL.py", line 2329, in _setup_opener
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpybwhja3m\build\youtube_dl
utils.py", line 2757, in load
File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x90 in position 111: character maps to
C:\Users\Admin>
Hopefully cookies.sqlite is the correct file, the documentation said it's a text file. If it is the right file, what am I doing wrong? Thanks.