User agent

[felixphew]

What user agent does the client use? Also, would it be possible to change this via an option?

[jaimeMF]

--dump-user-agent for getting it:

youtube-dl --dump-user-agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0 (Chrome)

And --user-agent for setting it, although you should try to avoid changing it, since we only test it with the default. Why do you need it?

[felixphew]

Sometimes geoblocking can be bypassed with the right user agent string. Also, it can affect the default formats of video. Using Firefox was a good choice.
On 12 May 2014, at 7:49 am, Jaime Marquínez Ferrándiz notifications@github.com wrote:

--dump-user-agent for getting it:

youtube-dl --dump-user-agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0 (Chrome)
And --user-agent for setting it, although you should try to avoid changing it, since we only test it with the default. Why do you need it?

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[4goettma]

Sometimes geoblocking can be bypassed with the right user agent string.

Quite interesting. Do you have examples for that? Couldn't find related information using Google.

[AnmolTomer]

@felixphew I am running into a problem related to this. Could you please provide an example of a youtube-dl syntax with --user-agent flag being used. That would be really helpful. Thanks!