What happens: On a datacenter/VPS IP, every YouTube download through graphify add <youtube-url> or graphify.transcribe.download_audio() fails with yt-dlp's Sign in to confirm you're not a bot (player responses come back LOGIN_REQUIRED for every client — web, tv, tv_embedded, android, mweb, over IPv4 and IPv6). Search (ytsearchN:) still works; only download is walled.
Why graphify can't be fixed from outside: yt-dlp's FAQ prescribes --cookies for this, and modern yt-dlp wants --js-runtimes node for full YouTube format coverage. Both exist on the yt-dlp CLI, but download_audio() builds its YoutubeDL options dict inline (graphify/transcribe.py, the ydl_opts = {...} block) with no pass-through — a user who exports cookies.txt has no way to hand it to graphify. (The yt-dlp Python API also does not read yt-dlp config files, so even a user-level yt-dlp config is ignored.)
Proposed fix (mirrors the module's existing GRAPHIFY_WHISPER_MODEL env convention):
GRAPHIFY_YTDLP_COOKIES → cookiefileGRAPHIFY_YTDLP_JS_RUNTIMES (comma-separated, e.g. node) → js_runtimes
No env set → options unchanged. PR with tests incoming from TelB-io.
What happens: On a datacenter/VPS IP, every YouTube download through
graphify add <youtube-url>orgraphify.transcribe.download_audio()fails with yt-dlp'sSign in to confirm you're not a bot(player responses come back LOGIN_REQUIRED for every client — web, tv, tv_embedded, android, mweb, over IPv4 and IPv6). Search (ytsearchN:) still works; only download is walled.Why graphify can't be fixed from outside: yt-dlp's FAQ prescribes
--cookiesfor this, and modern yt-dlp wants--js-runtimes nodefor full YouTube format coverage. Both exist on the yt-dlp CLI, butdownload_audio()builds itsYoutubeDLoptions dict inline (graphify/transcribe.py, theydl_opts = {...}block) with no pass-through — a user who exports cookies.txt has no way to hand it to graphify. (The yt-dlp Python API also does not read yt-dlp config files, so even a user-level yt-dlp config is ignored.)Proposed fix (mirrors the module's existing
GRAPHIFY_WHISPER_MODELenv convention):GRAPHIFY_YTDLP_COOKIES→cookiefileGRAPHIFY_YTDLP_JS_RUNTIMES(comma-separated, e.g.node) →js_runtimesNo env set → options unchanged. PR with tests incoming from TelB-io.