Error! Unhanded error Youtube Sign in

[jehmin]

Version 2.5.4 Windows 10

Iv been using this app fine and then I get hit with this error. I think I downloaded may playlists and videos prior to issue.

Error! Unhanded error. ( Red Bar)
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[jehmin]

I just learned if you close the app and restart it might fix the issue.

[StefanLobbenmeier]

That’s strange, feels like it is a captcha. You could add a cookies file to prevent this, but let’s see if there is already sth in yt-dlp for this

[StefanLobbenmeier]

Actually don’t

DO NOT PASS YOUR COOKIES, See yt-dlp/yt-dlp#10085 and yt-dlp/yt-dlp#10108.

yt-dlp/yt-dlp#10128

[StefanLobbenmeier]

So looking through the linked issue, it looks like YouTube is IP banning heavy users unless authenticated. The authentication only works via an outh plugin to yt-dlp (hoping that it is soon integrated into yt-dlp)

will keep an eye on the linked issue if that happens, otherwise there might be a more complicated setup to install that plugin