--cookies not outputting cookie when run via python script

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default: worker.get_video_no_cache(u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo4cmTaEDIk') (9206f665-3e7b-4405-af5f-c41b42b6411f)
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.05.30.2
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Linux-3.16.0-72-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-14.04-trusty
[debug] exe versions: avconv 9.18-6, avprobe 9.18-6, ffmpeg N-80026-g936751b, ffprobe N-80026-g936751b
[debug] Proxy map: {u'http': 'http://0.0.0.0', u'https': 'http://0.0.0.0'}
[youtube] Mo4cmTaEDIk: Downloading webpage
[youtube] Mo4cmTaEDIk: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] Mo4cmTaEDIk: Extracting video information
[youtube] {22} signature length 40.43, html5 player en_US-vflAwQJsE
[youtube] {43} signature length 40.43, html5 player en_US-vflAwQJsE
[youtube] {18} signature length 40.43, html5 player en_US-vflAwQJsE
[youtube] {5} signature length 40.43, html5 player en_US-vflAwQJsE
[youtube] {36} signature length 40.43, html5 player en_US-vflAwQJsE
[youtube] {17} signature length 40.43, html5 player en_US-vflAwQJsE
[youtube] {137} signature length 40.43, html5 player en_US-vflAwQJsE
[youtube] {248} signature length 40.43, html5 player en_US-vflAwQJsE
[youtube] {136} signature length 40.43, html5 player en_US-vflAwQJsE
[youtube] {247} signature length 40.43, html5 player en_US-vflAwQJsE
[youtube] {135} signature length 40.43, html5 player en_US-vflAwQJsE
[youtube] {244} signature length 40.43, html5 player en_US-vflAwQJsE
[youtube] {134} signature length 40.43, html5 player en_US-vflAwQJsE
[youtube] {243} signature length 40.43, html5 player en_US-vflAwQJsE
[youtube] {133} signature length 40.43, html5 player en_US-vflAwQJsE
[youtube] {242} signature length 40.43, html5 player en_US-vflAwQJsE
[youtube] {160} signature length 40.43, html5 player en_US-vflAwQJsE
[youtube] {278} signature length 40.43, html5 player en_US-vflAwQJsE
[youtube] {140} signature length 40.43, html5 player en_US-vflAwQJsE
[youtube] {171} signature length 40.43, html5 player en_US-vflAwQJsE
[youtube] {249} signature length 40.43, html5 player en_US-vflAwQJsE
[youtube] {250} signature length 40.43, html5 player en_US-vflAwQJsE
[youtube] {251} signature length 40.43, html5 player en_US-vflAwQJsE
WARNING: Your copy of avconv is outdated and unable to properly mux separate video and audio files, youtube-dl will download single file media. Update avconv to version 10-0 or newer to fix this

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If the purpose of this issue is a site support request please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by yours):

• Single video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc
• Single video: https://youtu.be/BaW_jenozKc
• Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4lCao7KL_QFVb7Iudeipvc2BCavECqzc

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

I'm currently trying to simulate the download and get the cookie of the video. When I run this command via terminal it produces the cookie and works fine

youtube-dl -v -g --cookies cookie.txt "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GTXaObrXr0"

But when I run it via a python script it does not produce the cookie and doesn't error out anything but still gives me the json.

        ydl = youtube_dl.YoutubeDL({'verbose': True, 'cookies': 'cookie.txt', 'dump-single-json': True})
        with ydl:
            result = ydl.extract_info(
                url,
                download=False # We just want to extract the info
            )
        if 'entries' in result:
            # Can be a playlist or a list of videos
            video = result['entries']
        else:
            # Just a video
            video = result

Any reason this wouldn't be producing the cookie?

[dstftw]

Because it's not cookies but cookiefile. Similarly it's dump_single_json and not dump-single-json.