sometimes youtube believes I’m a bot and won’t allow downloading stuff from them with yt-dlp 2026.07.04 on debian 13.6.

I could torify the whole computer, so next time I open a terminal and execute yt-dlp it uses tor by default. Sadly, I don’t know how to do that.

Another way would be to torify only yt-dlp, but neither do I know how to do that.

Changing the mac address and hostname did nothing.

Can you help?

  • Cipherd@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Start a tor daemon with SOCKS5 proxy:

    $ tor socksport 9050

    Then run yt-dlp through it:

    $ yt-dlp --proxy socks5://127.0.0.1:9050 <your arguments>