This guide uses yt-dlp (a maintained fork of youtube-dl) and browser cookies for authenticated downloads.
- yt-dlp installed on your system ๐ https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
- Browser extension to export YouTube cookies ๐ https://github.com/rotemdan/ExportCookies
- Install yt-dlp
- Use the ExportCookies extension to export cookies from
youtube.com - Save the cookies file as
cookies-youtube-com.txt
yt-dlp --write-auto-sub --convert-subs srt --skip-download URL --cookies cookies-youtube-com.txtyt-dlp URL --cookies cookies-youtube-com.txt