Restricted videos

[Sansunguser]

describe the feature you'd like to see

They should add a feature that allows you to download restricted videos or audio (explicit lyrics or explicit content) on YouTube.
Thanks!

additional context

In my case I wanted to download some songs with restrictions but I couldn't.

[KwiatekMiki]

can you give links to some restricted videos?

[Sansunguser]

https://youtu.be/wyS_Kg5MvXI?si=Gzc6CybpF-pAOoBt

https://youtu.be/McF8U-y01Wk?si=vq8LF8P-jIqTQyrC

[vytskalt]

Yt-dlp and NewPipe are both unable to play age restricted videos, so would be great to have this on Cobalt if technically possible

[Arron-Stothart]

Changes to YouTube's Inntertube API have made it seemingly impossible to download restricted content without authentication. There was a workaround using the tv_embedded client but this stopped working in October of this year (yt-dlp/yt-dlp#11296).

You should still be able to run your own local Cobalt instance with a disposable Google account configured (see docs). Alternatively you could use yt-dlp / youtube-dl with --cookies-from-browser <browser>.

I'm not super familiar, but using an account proxy server (as Simple-YouTube-Age-Restriction-Bypass does) might be one approach. Though unsure if that's a direction the Cobalt team wants to take