Can we scrape from "Members-only" videos? #528
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I'm a paid subscriber of a channel that has "Member only" videos, as expected the youtube-transcript-api (and pretty much any other scraper out there, not even one I made myself using playwright) can scrape from these videos. Does anyone have any idea on how this could be achieved (like maybe some YT api key tied to your YT account?). Or just a dead end? |
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This would only be possible with some sort of authentication. This module used to support cookie based authentication, but this was unfortunately broken by some recent changes made by YouTube. This issue tracks the progress on adding authentication back in, but I don't think anyone has made noteworthy progress on this yet. However, contributions are very welcome on this topic, so if you feel like digging into this it would be much appreciated! |
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This would only be possible with some sort of authentication. This module used to support cookie based authentication, but this was unfortunately broken by some recent changes made by YouTube. This issue tracks the progress on adding authentication back in, but I don't think anyone has made noteworthy progress on this yet. However, contributions are very welcome on this topic, so if you feel like digging into this it would be much appreciated!