[Question] Bypass age restriction

[mbnoimi]

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Question

I get Video is age restricted and only playable on YouTube. Requires cookies! error message although I set --age-limit 30 below one of the channels generates this error message.

youtube-dlc --newline -i --age-limit 30 -R 99 --hls-prefer-native -o /home/hpc-laptop/Downloads/youtube-dl/downloads/Documentary/%(title)s.%(ext)s -f 18 --merge-output-format mp4 --write-sub --sub-format srt --sub-lang en --embed-subs --continue --download-archive /home/hpc-laptop/Downloads/youtube-dl/downloads/Documentary/ytdl-archive.txt https://youtube.com/user/aljazeeradoc

How can I bypass this restriction?

[blackjack4494]

You need to actually show log output so I have some video ids to check against.

[mbnoimi]

You need to actually show log output so I have some video ids to check against.

Actually I don't know how to capture which video is generating this error message because of the issue #183

[blackjack4494]

Well then it seems there is some other restriction in place (geo block) which will be checked later unfortunately after the age restriction error.