Package: youtube-dl Version: 2010.08.04-1 Severity: wishlist I've had reports of people using proxies to access YouTube that result in frequent CAPTCHA requests due to the "high volume of requests" received from the same IP range. Successfully acquiring a cookie from the CAPTCHA allows access, but there appears to be no way to propagate the cookie to youtube-dl. Accepting an external cookie jar file and applying it to all requests would be nice.
The root cause could also be fixed by providing interactive CAPTCHA scraping (displaying the image and letting the user submit a response, then retrieving the cookie), but I imagine that might be a lot more complicated. In particular, I would expect that to be a superset of the complexity of the above, since due to youtube-dl not accepting multiple URLs, one would want to be able to store the cookie for later invocations. ---> Drake Wilson -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages youtube-dl depends on: ii python 2.6.6-3 interactive high-level object-orie youtube-dl recommends no packages. Versions of packages youtube-dl suggests: pn rtmpdump <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
