[YouTube] After few downloads m3u8 format i got a bot?
Author: CryosimCreated Sep 16, 2026Updated Sep 17, 2026
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Hi. How much time i must wait to unblocking bot? After 11th september i'm still bot.
Provide verbose output that clearly demonstrates the problem
- Run your yt-dlp command with -vU flag added (
yt-dlp -vU <your command line>) - If using API, add
'verbose': TruetoYoutubeDLparams instead - Copy the WHOLE output (starting with
[debug] Command-line config) and insert it below
Complete Verbose Output
C:\Users\Alexander>"C:\Users\Alexander\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\python.exe" -myt_dlp -vU --ffmpeg-location "D:\ffmpeg\bin\ffmpeg.exe" -R 100 -N 15 -o 1.ts -F "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oud-fcGs7CY"
[debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', '--ffmpeg-location', 'D:\\ffmpeg\\bin\\ffmpeg.exe', '-R', '100', '-N', '15', '-o', '1.ts', '-F', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oud-fcGs7CY']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1251, fs utf-8, pref cp1251, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
[debug] yt-dlp version [email protected] from yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds [bbc809a11] (pip)
[debug] Python 3.13.0 (CPython AMD64 64bit) - Windows-11-10.0.26200-SP0 (OpenSSL 3.0.15 3 Sep 2024)
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2025-09-04-git-2611874a50-full_build-www.gyan.dev (setts), ffprobe 2025-09-04-git-2611874a50-full_build-www.gyan.dev
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.21.0, brotli-1.1.0, certifi-2024.08.30, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.32.3, sqlite3-3.45.3, urllib3-2.2.3, websockets-13.1, yt_dlp_ejs-0.8.0
[debug] JS runtimes: deno-2.9.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets
[debug] Plugin directories: C:\Users\Alexander\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\yt_dlp_plugins
[debug] Loaded 1745 extractors
[debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds/releases/latest
Latest version: [email protected] from yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds
yt-dlp is up to date ([email protected] from yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds)
[debug] [youtube] [pot] PO Token Providers: none
[debug] [youtube] [pot] PO Token Cache Providers: memory
[debug] [youtube] [pot] PO Token Cache Spec Providers: webpo
[debug] [youtube] [jsc] JS Challenge Providers: bun (unavailable), deno, node (unavailable), quickjs (unavailable)
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oud-fcGs7CY
[youtube] Oud-fcGs7CY: Downloading webpage
[debug] [youtube] Forcing "main" player JS variant for player 1c642fb9
original url = /s/player/1c642fb9/player_es6.vflset/en_US/base.js
[youtube] Oud-fcGs7CY: Downloading visionos player API JSON
[debug] [youtube] Oud-fcGs7CY: visionos player response playability status: LOGIN_REQUIRED
[debug] [youtube] Oud-fcGs7CY: web player response playability status: LOGIN_REQUIRED
WARNING: [youtube] No title found in player responses; falling back to title from initial data. Other metadata may also be missing
ERROR: [youtube] Oud-fcGs7CY: Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot. Use --cookies-from-browser or --cookies for the authentication. See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/FAQ#how-do-i-pass-cookies-to-yt-dlp for how to manually pass cookies. Also see https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Extractors#exporting-youtube-cookies for tips on effectively exporting YouTube cookies
File "C:\Users\Alexander\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 764, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
File "C:\Users\Alexander\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\extractor\youtube\_video.py", line 4076, in _real_extract
self.raise_no_formats(reason, expected=True)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\Alexander\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 1271, in raise_no_formats
raise ExtractorError(msg, expected=expected, video_id=video_id)
Source: yt-dlp/yt-dlp