spotDL/spotify-downloader

Inform the user if YouTube Premium cookies are detected

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#2,501 opened on Sep 23, 2025

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Description

Requested Feature

Hello,

I recently acquired YouTube Premium access by letting a friend export his cookies.txt to me. However there isn't currently an easy way to verify that this functions. Best I've come up with is using them with yt-dlp -v and checking the output for successful use of the cookies.

Possible implementation

A one liner like [INFO] YouTube Premium detected! or similar on the start of the download. Maybe on the INFO or PROGRESS log level.

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Check if the cookies contain YouTube Premium indicators and log a success message.
Tech stack
python
Domain
backendtooling
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1
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Clear
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Python
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90