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Re:YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos by philshem on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @03:11PM (#27359761)
youtube-dl does have “—-username” and “—-password” flags, or will prompt for a password if you just specify “-u”.

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#authentication-option...

But as of a couple days ago it wasn’t working for age-restricted videos.

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Re:YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos by ComputerGuru on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @05:25PM (#27361543)
That is for HTTP auth.
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