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		dbcooper 67 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Browser extension and local backend that automatic... Does this work for videos flagged as age-restricted, or paid subscriber content? IIRC, yt-dlp needs to be passed browser cookies to do so?

fcpguru 67 days ago [–]

Ah good point. yt-dlp already has this, just need to prompt for auth and pass it thru. I made a ticket: https://github.com/andrewarrow/starchive/issues/4

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