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?
It would be more accurate to say they try and block the vpn providers and Tor exit nodes. In practice, they do have ~95% of Tor exit nodes blacklisted but major vpn providers it’s closer to 40%. Vpn providers go through a lot of effort to hide their exit traffic and it’s pretty simple to use a provider that has a reasonably robust cli to just rotate nodes until you find one that works
Connect
Test known-good video using yt-dlp
If fail, use vpn cli to connect to a new node
Reeat until success
If your provider let’s you connect to specific nodes you can even store the last-known-good and use it on first connect until it gets blacklisted, extending uptime considerably
Just post a picture of your beard and official Autism Certificate FFS.
Jesus fuck.
I don’t understand, is suggesting someone write a 7 line bash script in a Linux forum post about using a cli downloader, unreasonable?