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Comment by ThrowawayR2 | Hacker News Reader

Use youtube-dl: https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/index.html . It's both free and the source is public domain: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/

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Thanks for the suggestion. I tried to do it, but YouTube still refuses to let me DL my video.

    app $ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12345678
    [youtube] 12345678: Downloading webpage
    ERROR: 12345678: YouTube said: This video has been removed for violating YouTube's Community Guidelines.
    Sorry about that.

You've mentioned that you can still view it yourself so have you tried youtube-dl with the username + password options?

I have now tried that. But logging in isn't working for me :(

    app $ youtube-dl -u yyyyyyy@gmail.com -p zzzzzzzzz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1234343
    [youtube] Downloading login page
    [youtube] Looking up account info
    [youtube] Logging in
    WARNING: Unable to log in: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request

I disabled 2FA, and confirmed that my password is correct by logging out on the web, and back in again.

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