Hi NMGLUG folks, I haven't seen emails from this list for a while. Is the list still being used? If anyone reads this, I have a question about yt-dlp. In the past few days, I've gotten this error "ERROR: [youtube]: Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot." Has anyone encountered this? What is the solution? Verbose version: I used youtube-dl for a while and switched to yt-dlp when functionality dictated. I've been using yt-dlp for years, and it works great. For the past year, I've downloaded youtube playlists, and it's worked great with a CLI command something like yt-dlp --playlist-start 1 -- playlist-end 999 -f 140 youtubePlaylistLink A few days ago, I started getting the "sign in" error randomly for about half of the videos in the playlist. Here's how I know it was random. 1) When repeating the command for the same playlist, each time it downloaded about half of the videos, but which ones downloaded was different. or 2) If I repeated the same command in the same folder for a playlist with about 20 videos, the first time, about 10 downloaded, the second time, 10 said "already downloaded", about 5 downloaded and about 5 gave the "sign in" error. After a few more iterations, all 20 downloaded. That was a few days ago. Today, I tried to download a playlist of 11 videos and got the "sign in" error for all 11 with zero successful downloads. So, it's getting worse. I searched and found: https://discuss.techlore.tech/t/youtube-breaks-third-party-clients-once-agai... https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10128 https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10798 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79049216/yt-dlp-error-sign-in-required-w... https://www.redditmedia.com/r/youtubedl/comments/1e6bzu4/ytdlp_error_sign_in... https://msfn.org/board/topic/186439-youtube-sign-in-to-confirm-you%E2%80%99r... I'm not sure which approach might work well. Any thoughts? LeRoy -- There is something glorious birthing within all of us. I am the Love of God, no matter what.BSA LeRoy Diener 213-LEROYIZ 213-537-6949 https://leroydiener.com