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# TubeSync
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## Advanced usage guide - using exported cookies
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This is a new feature in v0.10 of TubeSync and later. It allows you to use the cookies
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file exported from your browser in "Netscape" format with TubeSync to authenticate
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to YouTube. This can bypass some throttling, age restrictions and other blocks at
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YouTube.
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**IMPORTANT NOTE**: Using cookies exported from your browser that is authenticated
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to YouTube identifes your Google account as using TubeSync. This may result in
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potential account impacts and is entirely at your own risk. Do not use this
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feature unless you really know what you're doing.
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## Requirements
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Have a browser that supports exporting your cookies and be logged into YouTube.
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## Steps
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### 1. Export your cookies
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You need to export cookies for youtube.com from your browser, you can either do
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this manually or there are plug-ins to automate this for you. This file must be
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in the "Netscape" cookie export format.
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Save your cookies as a `cookies.txt` file.
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### 2. Import into TubeSync
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Drop the `cookies.txt` file into your TubeSync `config` directory.
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If detected correctly, you will see something like this in the worker or container
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logs:
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```
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YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS,mmm [tubesync/INFO] [youtube-dl] using cookies.txt from: /config/cookies.txt
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```
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If you see that line it's working correctly.
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If you see errors in your logs like this:
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```
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http.cookiejar.LoadError: '/config/cookies.txt' does not look like a Netscape format cookies file
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```
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Then your `cookies.txt` file was not generated or created correctly as it's not
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in the required "Netscape" format. You can fix this by exporting your `cookies.txt`
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in the correct "Netscape" format.
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