Downloading Gay Porn off of YouTube just got Harder (Mmmmhh)

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So I guess I need to use this now.

yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser [browser that you're signed into youtube on] [link to youtube video]

Not knowing that argument for yt-dlp cost me a lot show prep the other day. I needed gay porn without the porn videos - the ones with really so bad its good acting, and nothing downloads mature content on YouTube out of the box these days. Those cheapo, sketch YouTube download sites won't work with mature content. Same goes for yt-dlp. Normies, myself included, are forced to use yt-dlp with this very specific `--cookies-from-browser` argument if they want to download age restricted videos. Ya gotta use a YouTube account now, too. Being a computer "power user" seems to take more steps every year. How is anyone supposed to keep up with the latest erotic YouTube channel backup techniques? IDK I could prolly give you an overly verbose overview.

Also, not sure if this will get my account banned if I download too much gay porn off of YouTube, so I'll probably use a burner. You may want to, too. 2025 is weird. I don't want to be the Steve Rambo YouTube account that gets banned for downloading too much Steve Rambo.

Ok, so here's how to use yt-dlp to download raunchy stuff on Winblows (like me).

Install the scoop package manager. Basically put whatever they tell you into your CMD, PowerShell, or Windows Terminal (a terminal emulator that can use all Windows shells, and including a WSL shell.). Use Homebrew if you're on Mac.

Install yt-dlp with this command (once scoop is installed)

scoop install yt-dlp

We'll use this guy

--cookies-from-browser

Sign into Youtube your browser of choice. In this example, we'll use Brave. Also, use the CD command to the directory that you would like the videos downloaded.

CD C:\ur_mom\last_night

Now we'll do it for real.

yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser brave https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeK7NdAvLrg

Let's see how that goes.

PS C:\Gay\Pron> yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser brave https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeK7NdAvLrg
PS C:\Gay\Pron> Extracting cookies from brave
PS C:\Gay\Pron> ERROR: Could not copy Chrome cookie database. See  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/7271  for more info

Fuck, what now? is `--cookies-from-browser` busted? Oh yeah, replace `brave` with `firefox`. Brave fucks it up because it's Chromium based (which means it can never be "based"). Sign into YouTube on Firefox and do this.

yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser firefox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeK7NdAvLrg

I knew Firefox had my back.

PS C:\Gay\Pron> yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser firefox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeK7NdAvLrg
Extracting cookies from firefox
Extracted 171 cookies from firefox
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeK7NdAvLrg
[youtube] NeK7NdAvLrg: Downloading webpage
[youtube] NeK7NdAvLrg: Downloading tv client config
[youtube] NeK7NdAvLrg: Downloading player 9c6dfc4a
[youtube] NeK7NdAvLrg: Downloading tv player API JSON
[info] NeK7NdAvLrg: Downloading 1 format(s): 137+251
[download] Destination: CATALINAVILLE (Catalina Video) - But ONLY the plot [NeK7NdAvLrg].f137.mp4
[download] 100% of  471.49MiB in 00:01:03 at 7.37MiB/s

Nice. Now to do it the correct way so that it'll play on my Miyoo Mini. (this part is for you, other Steve)

yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser firefox -S vcodec:h264,res480,acodec:m4a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeK7NdAvLrg

Here it is in action

PS C:\Gay\Pron> yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser firefox -S vcodec:h264,res480,acodec:m4a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeK7NdAvLrg
Extracting cookies from firefox
Extracted 171 cookies from firefox
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeK7NdAvLrg
[youtube] NeK7NdAvLrg: Downloading webpage
[youtube] NeK7NdAvLrg: Downloading tv client config
[youtube] NeK7NdAvLrg: Downloading player 9c6dfc4a
[youtube] NeK7NdAvLrg: Downloading tv player API JSON
Deprecated Feature: Using arbitrary fields (res480) for format sorting is deprecated and may be removed in a future version
[info] NeK7NdAvLrg: Downloading 1 format(s): 18
[download] Destination: CATALINAVILLE (Catalina Video) - But ONLY the plot [NeK7NdAvLrg].mp4
[download] 100% of  105.52MiB in 00:01:18 at 1.34MiB/s

We did it reddit! We adapted to yet another YouTube policy change!

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Downloading Gay Porn off of YouTube just got Harder (Mmmmhh)

this ascii art is from emoji combos

So I guess I need to use this now.

Also, not sure if this will get my account banned if I download too much gay porn off of YouTube, so I'll probably use a burner. You may want to, too. 2025 is weird. I don't want to be the Steve Rambo YouTube account that gets banned for downloading too much Steve Rambo.

Ok, so here's how to use yt-dlp to download raunchy stuff on Winblows (like me).

Install the scoop package manager. Basically put whatever they tell you into your CMD, PowerShell, or Windows Terminal (a terminal emulator that can use all Windows shells, and including a WSL shell.). Use Homebrew if you're on Mac.

Install yt-dlp with this command (once scoop is installed)

We'll use this guy

Sign into Youtube your browser of choice. In this example, we'll use Brave. Also, use the CD command to the directory that you would like the videos downloaded.

Now we'll do it for real.

Let's see how that goes.

Fuck, what now? is --cookies-from-browser busted? Oh yeah, replace brave with firefox. Brave fucks it up because it's Chromium based (which means it can never be "based"). Sign into YouTube on Firefox and do this.

I knew Firefox had my back.

Nice. Now to do it the correct way so that it'll play on my Miyoo Mini. (this part is for you, other Steve)

Here it is in action

We did it reddit! We adapted to yet another YouTube policy change!

Please share this if you like it or, maybe write a your own, better, more focused tutorial that doesn't have the words gay porn all over it with muscular shrek ascii art if this isn't your thing. You do you.

Fuck, what now? is `--cookies-from-browser` busted? Oh yeah, replace `brave` with `firefox`. Brave fucks it up because it's Chromium based (which means it can never be "based"). Sign into YouTube on Firefox and do this.