Configure
YouTube Cookies
Import cookies only when anonymous requests are insufficient.
Cookies can help with age restrictions, anti-bot checks, or certain content accessible to your account. Do not add them as long as anonymous mode works.
Format
VidArch accepts a cookies.txt file in Netscape format, limited to 2 MB. You can import the file or paste its content into the manual editor.
Risks
A cookie file is equivalent to sensitive access to your YouTube session.
- use a dedicated account if possible;
- never share the file;
- do not add it to Git;
- protect backups;
- delete it from settings when it is no longer needed.
The file is stored in DATA_DIR/cookies.txt. After deletion, VidArch reverts to anonymous mode.