[youtube] Fix authentication (closes #11270)

5 years ago · baf67a604d
1 changed files with 2 additions and 0 deletions
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
@ -116,6 +116,8 @@ class YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor(InfoExtractor):
                'f.req': json.dumps(f_req),
                'flowName': 'GlifWebSignIn',
                'flowEntry': 'ServiceLogin',
+                # TODO: reverse actual botguard identifier generation algo
+                'bgRequest': '["identifier",""]',
            })
            return self._download_json(
                url, None, note=note, errnote=errnote,