tech.scraping.youtube.ytdlp.firefox.cookies

Created Wednesday 24 September 2025


When you are using ytdlp and the video is subject to some form of censorship and requires you to dox yourself, you can do so by logging in via firefox and passing the cookies to ydlp. 


Reddit comment:
--cookies-from-browser BROWSER[:PROFILE_NAME_OR_PATH]

so... --cookies-from-browser firefox or --cookies-from-browser chrome

as it understand it, you can specify a profile name or path afterwards in case you have multiple or it don't find it.

--cookies-from-browser firefox:xhn2zoyv.default (i assume .default should be included, but maybe not)


So if you just use --cookies-from-browser firefox it will throw all your cookies at google at once. It works.



References:

  1. https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/ou1mtk/ytdlp_how_i_use_cookies_from_browser/

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