Please add Cookies-Support for ytdlp-nodejs

[nerzlakai96]

Dear developer,
due to YouTube limiting or blocking, i encountered to following errors now when trying to use ytdlp-nodejs with yt-dlp:

Error code: Error: Command failed: /[...]/yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ --dump-json
ERROR: [youtube] dQw4w9WgXcQ: Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot. Use --cookies-from-browser or --cookies for the authentication. See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/FAQ#how-do-i-pass-cookies-to-yt-dlp for how to manually pass cookies. Also see https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Extractors#exporting-youtube-cookies for tips on effectively exporting YouTube cookies

This can be fixed by adding the possibility inside ytdlp-nodejs to add a configurable parameter "--cookies ./cookies.txt" to all functions like e.g ytdlp.stream / ytDlp.getInfoAsync so it sends a command to yt-dlp like this:
/[...]/yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ --cookies ./cookies.txt --dump-json

Thanks in advance and kind regards,
nerzlakai96

[iqbal-rashed]

Updated in version 2.3.0

[QnKpDZXDxnwe]

I am having some issues with the .cookies('absolute/path/to/cookies.txt') factory method for the YtDlp.download method.

I've been using the download method successfully for several days, and ran into the 'Sign in to confirm you're not a bot' message, so I added the cookies line, and it's showing the same error. Are there special steps required not in the documentation? I've used the Get cookies.txt LOCALLY extension linked to on the official yt-dlp Github page, both exporting just my YouTube cookies, as well as all my browser cookies, neither work.

I've also tried cookiesFromBrowser('chrome') method, which throws a Error invoking remote method 'api-download-audio': Error: yt-dlp exited with code 1: secretstorage not available as the 'secretstorage' module is not installed. Please install by running 'python3 -m pip install secretstorage'. I'm building my first electron app, so I'm not sure if bundling a python module is possible. If it is and will solve my problem, I'll go down that rabbit hole, but currently it's a blocker for me. I appreciate the help.