I am looking to download entire playlists and/or channels from YouTube. I know I can do this with yt-dlp, but for the content I’m attempting to download, it requires me to pass some cookie settings to yt-dlp, which I believe involves first signing into YouTube, which I don’t want to do.

My next thought was to see if I can accomplish the same task through Invidious. I can download individual videos through Invidious, but I don’t see a way to download an entire playlist.

Is there any way of downloading an entire playlist (or channel) without signing in, through Invidious or some other tool?

Or if I’m misunderstanding the mechanic of passing a cookie to yt-dlp (like if there’s a way of doing this without signing in), please let me know. Thank you!

  • ttyybb
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    17 days ago

    Pretty sure that’s on YouTube’s end. You can disable the homepage with “manage tabs” in settings.

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      17 days ago

      is there anyway to change that in the plugin like changing the language or the location and that will cause the change of videos that appear in home or something like this, you know when you use vpn in a location you’ll see videos in that location with the language …

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        17 days ago

        Not that I know of. I never really use the home page, even before using grayjay, so I haven’t looked into it before.