YouTube Cookies

Why using cookies

• Prevent YouTube rate limiting (429 Error)
• Capable of playing videos accessible through your account, including age-restricted, exclusive member, premium, private, and more.

How to get cookies

• Install EditThisCookie extension for your browser.
• Go to YouTube.
• Log in to your account. (You should use a new account for this purpose)
• Click on the extension icon and click "Export".
• Copy the content of the exported file and paste it into your code.

const { DisTube } = require("distube");

const distube = new DisTube({
  "...",
  youtubeCookie: [
    {
      domain: ".youtube.com",
      expirationDate: 1234567890,
      hostOnly: false,
      httpOnly: true,
      name: "LOGIN_INFO",
      path: "/",
      sameSite: "no_restriction",
      secure: true,
      session: false,
      value: "---xxx---",
    },
    {
      domain: ".youtube.com",
      ...
    }
  ],
});

• Or you can paste it into a file and use fs.readFileSync to read it.

const { DisTube } = require("distube");
const fs = require("fs");

const distube = new DisTube({
  "...",
  youtubeCookie: JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync("cookies.json")),
});