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Region Restrictions
David Zhuang edited this page Apr 5, 2016
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Some video sites have region restrictions (for accessing some of their videos). To name a few:
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YouTube: Germany (see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_YouTube_videos_in_Germany)
- On YouTube, uploaders have the option to filter out watchers by region, which is often the case when you see a message "The uploader has not made this video available in your country." on some videos.
- CBS.com: outside U.S.
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Youku, Tudou, etc.: outside mainland China
- Note that although some sites do forbid overseas users streaming videos from a browser, e.g. YinYueTai, you may still fetch these videos with
you-geteffortlessly.
- Note that although some sites do forbid overseas users streaming videos from a browser, e.g. YinYueTai, you may still fetch these videos with
With a proxy or VPN (located in unblocked countries) and a tool like proxychains. you can easily bypass such restrictions.
You may also use the -x option to specify an HTTP proxy to use explicitly for you-get.
For extracting videos only available in China, you also have the option of -y proxy.uku.im:443 to employ a dedicated proxy kindly provided by the Unblock-Youku project.