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| author | Sergey M․ <dstftw@gmail.com> | 2016-11-07 23:53:22 +0700 |
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| committer | Sergey M․ <dstftw@gmail.com> | 2016-11-07 23:53:22 +0700 |
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[README.md] Mention HTTP headers and alternative way to obtain cookies and headers in -g FAQ
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 0f4088adc..98e374420 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -758,7 +758,7 @@ Once the video is fully downloaded, use any video player, such as [mpv](https:// ### 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 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 and/or HTTP headers. 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. You can also get necessary cookies and HTTP headers from JSON output obtained with `--dump-json`. 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. |