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Status: Not working

As of right now, this doesn't work well with Invidous. Please follow the issue https://github.com/iv-org/invidious-companion/issues/37

And there is an issue where Google detects the usage of logged account and shadow-ban the account.

Read the risks

This is forbidden by Google to use a Google account on third party services, so make sure you understand the risk. Your account could get banned. Do not use a personal account that you care about.

Use it as a last resort in case you can't rely on proxies or changing IP address to unblock the loading of the videos.

Use case

  • Logging into a Google account will allow you to load YouTube videos on a blocked IP address.
  • Depending on how your Google account has been configured, you will probably be able to load age restricted videos.

Instructions

If you enable oauth_enabled in the local.toml (see 26cb520e15/config/config.example.toml (L56)) for reference.

Then on the start of Invidious companion, you will get a URL for configuring the Google account.

Go to XXX in your browser and enter code XXXX to authenticate

Once you have done that then you will see a success message "Sign in successful".