Video platforms dynamically generate streaming URLs with short-lived security tokens. If the download takes too long to start, the signature expires.
yt-dlp --client-certificate "chrome" --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" "YOUR_VIDEO_URL" Use code with caution. 5. Rotate Your IP Address Using a Proxy or VPN x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML
If the server recognizes your request header as a bot, you must force the tool to impersonate a legitimate modern web browser. Use the client spoofing argument to mask your identity: x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML
(Replace chrome with firefox , edge , safari , or brave depending on your primary browser). 3. Clear the Downloader Cache x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML
Connect to a different server location and retry.