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[shubhamjsharma3lac]

I had extracted a best-video link from a youtube video.
link: "https://r3---sn-vgqsened.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?dur=6705.667&requiressl=yes&mt=1421123535&mv=u&ms=au&gcr=us&mm=31&source=youtube&ratebypass=yes&expire=1421145382&id=o-AKyrjlkyozW9Y_8ZlxB1fU_hU1eAQq2vzmPo_tbDJwDz&sparams=dur%2Cgcr%2Cid%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Cmime%2Cmm%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cratebypass%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cupn%2Cexpire&sver=3&fexp=900242%2C900718%2C904843%2C927622%2C930821%2C932404%2C9405634%2C9405777%2C941004%2C943917%2C945125%2C947209%2C947218%2C947225%2C948124%2C952302%2C952605%2C952901%2C955301%2C957103%2C957105%2C957201%2C959701%2C961901&mime=video%2Fmp4&ip=23.101.206.60&key=yt5&itag=18&upn=w0xaQyG5_Oc&ipbits=0&signature=8BDD56D631ECD6F7E7610BF5F51E869D359A12CF.2E2D7C9A994CE280653169EBCE2AA8BF5EF5AF9F"

while trying to open the link in web browser I am getting a error message stating that
"•This website requires you to log in.
This error (HTTP 403 Forbidden) means that Internet Explorer was able to connect to the website, but it does not have permission to view the webpage."

[phihag]

It is hard to say what's happening here since this bug report is missing essential information. Please review our issue reporting guidelines. In particular, the full output of youtube-dl when called with -v would give us a hint whether extraction worked alright, and how you called youtube-dl in the first place.

Does downloading the video with youtube-dl work?

Notably, URLs are not generally accessible without the cookies extracted by youtube-dl (use --cookies cookiefile.txt to write them). Unless guaranteed otherwise, the request must also come from the same IP address. These restrictions differ from service to service. For YouTube - most likely the service in use here, although we can't say for certain without the -v output - the request generally needs to come from the same IP address, and may need to have the same cookies.

Can you elaborate how you copied over the cookies into Internet Explorer? Did you run youtube-dl on the same machine that Internet Explorer is running on?

[shubhamjsharma3lac]

No I had run the youtube-dl from the azure virtual machine and extracted the download link from there l.
And I am trying to use that download link for playing the videos /downloading the videos from some other machine.
can you please tell me how can I can I do this?

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Subject: Re: [youtube-dl] •This website requires you to log in (#4693)

It is hard to say what's happening here since this bug report is missing essential information. Please review our issue reporting guidelines. In particular, the full output of youtube-dl when called with -v would give us a hint whether extraction worked alright, and how you called youtube-dl in the first place.

Does downloading the video with youtube-dl work?

Notably, URLs are not generally accessible without the cookies extracted by youtube-dl (use --cookies cookiefile.txt to write them somewhere). Unless guaranteed otherwise, the request must also come from the same IP address. These restrictions differ from service to service. For YouTube - most likely the service in use here, although we can't say for certain without the -v output - the request generally needs to come from the same IP address, and may need to have the same cookies.

Can you elaborate how you copied over the cookies into Internet Explorer? Did you run youtube-dl on the same machine that Internet Explorer is running on?

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[phihag]

I've amended our FAQ entry for this question:

I extracted a video URL with -g, but it does not play on another machine / in my webbrowser.

It depends a lot on the service. In many cases, requests for the video (to download/play it) must come from the same IP address and with the same cookies. Use the --cookies option to write the required cookies into a file, and advise your downloader to read cookies from that file. Some sites also require a common user agent to be used, use --dump-user-agent to see the one in use by youtube-dl.

It may be beneficial to use IPv6; in some cases, the restrictions are only applied to IPv4. Some services (sometimes only for a subset of videos) do not restrict the video URL by IP address, cookie, or user-agent, but these are the exception rather than the rule.

Please bear in mind that some URL protocols are not supported by browsers out of the box, including RTMP. If you are using -g, your own downloader must support these as well.

If you want to play the video on a machine that is not running youtube-dl, you can relay the video content from the machine that runs youtube-dl. You can use -o - to let youtube-dl stream a video to stdout, or simply allow the player to download the files written by youtube-dl in turn.