Feature Request - cookies from text file

[mbm4]

Currently it seems the PREFERRED_BROWSER option only allows extracting cookies directly from the browser profile, however, yt-dlp supports an alternative method for extracting cookies:
yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser "browser" --cookies cookies.txt
yt-dlp --cookies cookies.txt "video"
This extracts and then stores cookies in a text file, and afterwards they can be used with a desired video link.
Would it be possible to add this to yt-x as an optional alternative for PREFERRED_BROWSER to allow using cookies from a text file?

[Kozi801]

What a coincidence, I was about to make a similar request.
I was thinking that it would be a good way to get an option by default and or via config file to be able to use cookies from a text file instead that from a web browser. I am asking because I use mostly yt-x script application on a Ubuntu server 22.04 LTS OS; therefore, I have no way of using a GUI browser such as firefox or google chrome.
With the help of ChatGPT (since I am not very good at coding yet) I was able to get a solution, which connects to the PREFERRED_BROWSER that the original poster mentioned, and it resolved the issue. However, modifying the functions from inside the script itself was necessary.
Maybe you have a good option. Later if I can get sometime maybe I can post my version of the script + config file.

Thanks for the support.

ps: It is fuzzy in my memory but I think that the left side of the programme where the uploader name channel name, views description is shown, it does not display at all or not very well if I use a server os like ubuntu linux. But works well if I have GUI like Linux mint.

[Kozi801]

If I am to share my modification of your script. Do let me know how I can share it? do I put it here in text form, or is there a way to upload in github or another website?

[Benexl]

Pr would be nice

[Kozi801]

I did a Pr, the change I made is in the run_yt_dlp() function. The old is commented out. shell is not a scripting language I am familiar with and my programming skills is very minimal, most of the work is chatgpt. So you will probably have a more efficient / elegent way to do it.

[Kozi801]

One thing I did notice, is if I use yt-x in wsl, the moment i navigate the list of results, I lose all the video info under the thumbnail. (deactivated thumbnail did not resolve the issue), Do you think there is a fix to make it work for wsl in the same way? Let me know if I should make another issue for this

image screenshot of the issue:

Chat GPT proposed me this change, but it does not look as good of course

# This is the new line you must add
uploader=$($YTDLP --get-filename -o '%(uploader)s' "$url")

Now, modify the printf line to include the new $uploader variable.

    From: printf "%s%s%s - %s\n" "$arrow" "$reset" "$i" "$title"

    To: printf "%s%s%s - %s - %s\n" "$arrow" "$reset" "$i" "$uploader" "$title"

Maybe it is more of a specific windows issue. But I don't understand what causes it.

left side is Raspberri pi with ubuntu server 22.04 lts.
right side is windows 10 with ubuntu server 22.04 via wsl.