youtube-dl

Another place where youtube-dl lives on
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commit f26a298247fe19bc8114d6f7a280140dfabee984
parent ea01cdbf61c9a689e7914dd2d06371f3ef73b490
Author: Sergey M․ <dstftw@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 25 Aug 2016 18:19:41 +0700

[README.md] Use en-US URL in cookies FAQ entry

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MREADME.md | 2+-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md @@ -814,7 +814,7 @@ Either prepend `http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=` or separate the ID from the opt Use the `--cookies` option, for example `--cookies /path/to/cookies/file.txt`. -In order to extract cookies from browser use any conforming browser extension for exporting cookies. For example, [cookies.txt](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cookiestxt/njabckikapfpffapmjgojcnbfjonfjfg) (for Chrome) or [Export Cookies](https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/export-cookies/) (for Firefox). +In order to extract cookies from browser use any conforming browser extension for exporting cookies. For example, [cookies.txt](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cookiestxt/njabckikapfpffapmjgojcnbfjonfjfg) (for Chrome) or [Export Cookies](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/export-cookies/) (for Firefox). Note that the cookies file must be in Mozilla/Netscape format and the first line of the cookies file must be either `# HTTP Cookie File` or `# Netscape HTTP Cookie File`. Make sure you have correct [newline format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline) in the cookies file and convert newlines if necessary to correspond with your OS, namely `CRLF` (`\r\n`) for Windows, `LF` (`\n`) for Linux and `CR` (`\r`) for Mac OS. `HTTP Error 400: Bad Request` when using `--cookies` is a good sign of invalid newline format.