Update app.py

app.py

@@ -25,33 +25,31 @@ from yt_dlp import YoutubeDL
 from yt_dlp import YoutubeDL
 import os
 
-import yt_dlp
-import time
-import random
-
 import yt_dlp
 
 def download_video(url):
     """
-    Downloads a video from YouTube using yt-dlp.
+    Downloads a video from YouTube using yt-dlp with browser authentication.
     """
-    print("Downloading...")
+    print("Starting download...")
 
     ydl_opts = {
         'format': 'bestvideo+bestaudio/best',  # Ensures best quality
-        'outtmpl': '%(title)s.%(ext)s',  # Saves the file with the video title
-        'merge_output_format': 'mp4',  # Ensures the final file is MP4
-        'quiet': False,  # Shows download progress
+        'merge_output_format': 'mp4',  # Ensures final output is MP4
+        'outtmpl': '%(title)s.%(ext)s',  # Saves file with video title
+        'quiet': False,  # Shows progress
+        'cookies': 'youtube_cookies.txt',  # Use exported cookies
+        'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36',  # Mimic browser
     }
 
     try:
         with yt_dlp.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
             info = ydl.extract_info(url, download=True)
-            local_file = ydl.prepare_filename(info)  # Gets the output filename
-            print(f"Downloaded: {local_file}")
+            local_file = ydl.prepare_filename(info)  # Get output filename
+            print(f"✅ Downloaded: {local_file}")
             return local_file
     except Exception as e:
-        print(f"Download failed: {str(e)}")
+        print(f"❌ Download failed: {str(e)}")
         return None
 
 # Example Usage