cross-posted from: https://lemmy.abnormalbeings.space/post/142454
So, at the moment, I have the feature to mirror channels or import from URLs disabled for my PeerTube server (although it should work fine, for platforms other than YT). Trying to import from YT-URLs does result in errors every time, and from my research and bug-hunting, it seems to be a problem with yt-dlp not having necessary cookies and being prompted to log in by the YT bot avoidance systems.
Now, I don’t really want to import any credentials from my personal YT account to anything that will ultimately run outside my control, if that is at all avoidable. Does someone here have any experience with other ways to get it running? So far, I haven’t found anything myself.
I use it daily without issues on a residential network. You might be getting blocked because they know you’re on some kind of VPS network.
Ah, important extra information: It’s on a dedicated server in Finland from Hetzner, so yes, no residential network. But I guess from that, I should look into setting up a proxy connection?
It may help, but that’s just a guess.
