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authorDimitris Zlatanidis <d.zlatanidis@gmail.com>2016-11-20 03:54:25 +0200
committerWilly Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>2016-11-26 11:47:39 +0700
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network/youtube-dl: Updated for version 2016.11.18.
Signed-off-by: Dimitris Zlatanidis <d.zlatanidis@gmail.com>
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@@ -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.