Handle YouTube rate limitation

[0x617374726F]

I am wondering how to handle YouTubes rate limitation. Given I have an API key for YouTube, how can I authorize the yt-dlp requests? I couldn't find any documentation or example regarding that issue.

[vicky5124]

While yt-dlp does have support to authorise requests with arguments such as --cookies, -u / --username, -p / --password, and others, songbird does not provide a way to use these arguments, as the ones used are hard coded.

For now, you can use an IPv6 block tunnel such as HE TunnelBroker with some clever routing and a proxy to send every YouTube request through that IPv6 block. The website explains how to set up the tunnel in many different systems; just make sure to use the /48 block rather than the /64 one.

[euank]

You can configure --cookies as of #268

I think that's about as good as you can do right now.