Running youtube-dl on a server #187

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opened 2026-02-20 21:05:02 -05:00 by deekerman · 0 comments

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Originally created by @jasperamorgan on GitHub (Dec 13, 2011).

I'm writing a bookmarking tool to create playlists of online video which can be played from local media players.

For Youtube videos I am extracting the actual video URLs using Youtube-dl running on a server which get passed to the media player.

This works great running in a local development environment but when the URL is extracted from the production server (running on EC2), I get a 403 error. (BTW, as per issue #41 I'm passing the cookie to the media player which works fine.)

Could it be an issue that the URL is being extracted and then used on machines running in different networks?

Originally created by @jasperamorgan on GitHub (Dec 13, 2011). I'm writing a bookmarking tool to create playlists of online video which can be played from local media players. For Youtube videos I am extracting the actual video URLs using Youtube-dl running on a server which get passed to the media player. This works great running in a local development environment but when the URL is extracted from the production server (running on EC2), I get a 403 error. (BTW, as per issue #41 I'm passing the cookie to the media player which works fine.) Could it be an issue that the URL is being extracted and then used on machines running in different networks?

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