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[Firerouge]

Youtube-dl (and yt-dlp) support loading cookies to access private content. Is there a way to have ytmdl utilize cookies similarly.

I'd like to download my liked music auto-playlist. This is found for each user at https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=LM
This playlist can't be made public/unlisted, and the only way to export the songs from it into another playlist is limited to ~200 songs a day: https://github.com/sayok88/likedmusicyoutube

[nickexyz]

It would also be nice to be able to download higher quality music when using cookies with YT premium.

255kbps audio is extracted (if available) from YouTube Music when premium cookies are given

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#new-features

[deepjyoti30]

I understand that cookies can be passed by using a CLI flag to yt-dlp. If that is correct, then the --ytdl-config PATH flag can be used from ytmdl to pass the cookie flag through a file and it will be forwarded to yt-dlp.

@Firerouge Let me know if this works. @nickexyz You can confirm as well. If this doesn't work out of the box, you guys can create an issue (either a bug report or a feature request based on the outcome of this step) and I can take a look at that accordingly!

[Firerouge]

This does work. To summarize what to do.
Sign into the google account on a browser, I used firefox (non snap version)
Create a file /etc/yt-dlp/config.txt containing a single line --cookies-from-browser firefox

Then call ytmdl with the following ytmdl --ytdl-config /etc/yt-dlp/config.txt https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=LM

[Firerouge]

Maybe it's a known issue, but errors from missing videos in playlists don't seem to be handled gracefully.

A playlist including, for example, this missing song https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=N_fGELxp10w fails and aborts with subsequent items in the playlist

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/.local/bin/ytmdl", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(entry())
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ytmdl/main.py", line 614, in entry
    extract_data()
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ytmdl/main.py", line 607, in extract_data
    main(args)
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ytmdl/main.py", line 238, in main
    song_name, verify_name = extract_song_name(args)
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ytmdl/main.py", line 530, in extract_song_name
    song_name, verify_title = yt.get_title(args.url, args.ytdl_config)
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ytmdl/yt.py", line 409, in get_title
    title = __get_title_from_yt(url, ytdl_config)
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ytmdl/yt.py", line 368, in __get_title_from_yt
    return stringutils.remove_yt_words(data["title"])
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable

This is the case even with the following flags, --download-archive dl.txt --quiet --on-meta-error youtube --ignore-errors --nolocal
It's also the case with the following flags included in the yt-dlp config --no-abort-on-error --ignore-errors

[deepjyoti30]

@Firerouge Thanks for the issue, seems like this is a bug. I will open an issue for this.