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diff --git a/network/youtube-dl/youtube-dl.1 b/network/youtube-dl/youtube-dl.1 index c144269d4fd0d..7c0040649c2b1 100644 --- a/network/youtube-dl/youtube-dl.1 +++ b/network/youtube-dl/youtube-dl.1 @@ -1496,11 +1496,13 @@ another machine / in my webbrowser. .PP 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. +from the same IP address and with the same cookies and/or HTTP headers. Use the \f[C]\-\-cookies\f[] 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 \f[C]\-\-dump\-user\-agent\f[] to see the one in use by youtube\-dl. +You can also get necessary cookies and HTTP headers from JSON output +obtained with \f[C]\-\-dump\-json\f[]. .PP It may be beneficial to use IPv6; in some cases, the restrictions are only applied to IPv4. |