Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot - This helps protect our community. Learn more #2935
Description
On my self-hosted instance I started to get the error notification Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot - This helps protect our community. Learn more
Other youtube frontends have the same problem as it seems.
- "Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot." error with YouTube videos jagrosh/MusicBot#1588
- [=BUG=] Youtube requires sign in to confirm you are not a bot play-dl/play-dl#370
- 🐛 Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot eritislami/evobot#1638
- DownloadError [youtube] Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot. This helps protect our community. mps-youtube/yewtube#1276
It looks like youtube is blocking IPs from access without sign in. But users have reported that using their actual cookie, got them banned. So that isn't really a solution.
It seems like the cobalt client might have solved it using OAuth tokens. That might also work for this project.
imputnet/cobalt#551