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yt-dlp -v --cookies-from-browser firefox -x --audio-format mp3 https://youtu.be/VV1XWJN3nJo?si=3V2AHkh_-XLYydYh
[debug] Command-line config: ['-v', '--cookies-from-browser', 'firefox', '-x', '--audio-format', 'mp3', 'https://youtu.be/VV1XWJN3nJo?si=3V2AHkh_-XLYydYh']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, pref UTF-8, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
[debug] yt-dlp version stable@2026.06.09 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp [821bef0f0]
[debug] Lazy loading extractors is disabled
[debug] Python 3.13.13 (CPython x86_64 64bit) - Linux-6.18.39-desktop-1.mga10-x86_64-with-glibc2.42 (OpenSSL 3.5.7 9 Jun 2026, glibc 2.42)
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 7.1.5 (setts), ffprobe 7.1.5
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.21.0, brotli-1.2.0, certifi-2025.01.31, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.33.1, sqlite3-3.51.3, urllib3-2.7.0, websockets-16.0, yt_dlp_ejs-0.8.0
[debug] JS runtimes: node-22.23.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
Extracting cookies from firefox
[debug] Extracting cookies from: "/home/guillaume/.mozilla/firefox/tkgks19c.default-release-1688901395070/cookies.sqlite"
[debug] Firefox cookies database version: 15
Extracted 2629 cookies from firefox
[debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets
[debug] Plugin directories: none
[debug] Loaded 1739 extractors
[debug] [youtube] Found YouTube account cookies
[debug] [youtube] [pot] PO Token Providers: none
[debug] [youtube] [pot] PO Token Cache Providers: memory
[debug] [youtube] [pot] PO Token Cache Spec Providers: webpo
[debug] [youtube] [jsc] JS Challenge Providers: bun (unavailable), deno (unavailable), node, quickjs (unavailable)
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://youtu.be/VV1XWJN3nJo?si=3V2AHkh_-XLYydYh
[youtube] VV1XWJN3nJo: Downloading webpage
[debug] [youtube] Forcing "main" player JS variant for player 3891b194
        original url = /s/player/3891b194/player_es6.vflset/en_US/base.js
[youtube] VV1XWJN3nJo: Downloading tv downgraded player API JSON
[debug] Loading youtube-sigfuncs.3891b194-main-106 from cache
[debug] Loading youtube-sigfuncs.3891b194-main-102 from cache
[youtube] VV1XWJN3nJo: Downloading player 3891b194-main
[youtube] [jsc:node] Solving JS challenges using node
[debug] [youtube] [jsc:node] Using challenge solver lib script v0.8.0 (source: python package, variant: minified)
[debug] [youtube] [jsc:node] Using challenge solver core script v0.8.0 (source: python package, variant: minified)
[debug] [youtube] [jsc:node] Running node: node --experimental-permission --no-warnings=ExperimentalWarning -
[debug] [youtube] VV1XWJN3nJo: Detected experiment to bind GVS PO Token to video ID for web_safari client
[youtube] VV1XWJN3nJo: Downloading m3u8 information
[debug] Sort order given by extractor: quality, res, fps, hdr:12, source, vcodec, channels, acodec, lang, proto
[debug] Formats sorted by: hasvid, ie_pref, quality, res, fps, hdr:12(7), source, vcodec, channels, acodec, lang, proto, size, br, asr, vext, aext, hasaud, id
[info] VV1XWJN3nJo: Downloading 1 format(s): 251
[debug] Invoking http downloader on "https://rr5---sn-2o25g5-5c.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1787177866&ei=KteFavaaJ_W8hcIPqsuDoAI&ip=2a01%3Ae0a%3A8f4%3A6300%3A199e%3A7679%3A708a%3A5994&id=o-AO3rAQpdrjLaCAW5h1NMQDmPtTV_LFC6ghrAZShZ-6pD&itag=251&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&xpc=EgVo2aDSNQ%3D%3D&cps=996&met=1787156266%2C&mh=nP&mm=18%2C26&mn=sn-2o25g5-5c%2Csn-aigl6ney&ms=aub%2Conr&mv=m&mvi=5&pl=45&rms=aub%2Caub&gcr=fr&initcwndbps=2986250&siu=1&bui=AR3QkAnagJvb2rjeVHaYqKctsnjM5dd_HiZqxPRxne5gLF70Q-gFI6bwvmKn7fITNo6GBt9akQ&spc=KBGBcsGDCYSnLgZ_QNcIa-bhJRg&vprv=1&svpuc=1&mime=audio%2Fwebm&ns=VHBlQ1CTPy-ymMuJXkTJLIIX&rqh=1&gir=yes&clen=4111207&dur=243.221&lmt=1769860730751726&mt=1787156033&fvip=4&keepalive=yes&lmw=1&fexp=51565116%2C51946838%2C52149337&c=TVHTML5&sefc=1&txp=5532534&n=ylXjJRZaywB_lA&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cxpc%2Cgcr%2Csiu%2Cbui%2Cspc%2Cvprv%2Csvpuc%2Cmime%2Cns%2Crqh%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Clmt&lsparams=cps%2Cmet%2Cmh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Crms%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=APaTxxMwRQIhALy7zB6Zp5VhCZ3hY-2rcCWw7fpN_WKoZbs7AMwbGn1FAiARe-PkJX_uOT_oRVndJRDcoqVkaxeh7U0jI03DaGGITg%3D%3D&sig=AE0s2JYwRgIhAMkRxIxfB8zmNHJkZClA61fgFWT8eMeWQ7BxVjTbHXWSAiEA1ev4HwnC0ImVYGv3fNGQ-EAs49q7fpWqUBsX7miBBDE%3D"
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 3574, in process_info
    success, real_download = self.dl(temp_filename, info_dict)
                             ~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 3313, in dl
    return fd.download(name, new_info, subtitle)
           ~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/yt_dlp/downloader/common.py", line 480, in download
    ret = self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/yt_dlp/downloader/http.py", line 362, in real_download
    establish_connection()
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/yt_dlp/downloader/http.py", line 119, in establish_connection
    ctx.data = self.ydl.urlopen(request)
               ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 4290, in urlopen
    return self._request_director.send(req)
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/yt_dlp/networking/common.py", line 117, in send
    response = handler.send(request)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/yt_dlp/networking/_helper.py", line 194, in wrapper
    return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/yt_dlp/networking/common.py", line 359, in send
    return self._send(request)
           ~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/yt_dlp/networking/_requests.py", line 361, in _send
    raise HTTPError(res, redirect_loop=max_redirects_exceeded)
yt_dlp.networking.exceptions.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden