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You may want to provide a logged-in instance to this tool as this is the only way to get membership posts or certain details like poll vote percentages. The tool supports a few methods.
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##### Using a browser profile
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#### Using a browser profile
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I've found this way works a bit better from personal experience. You can re-use an existing browser profile that is
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logged into your YouTube account to grab membership posts with the `-p` flag, where the path is where your user
By default this will use the default profile name;if you need to override this then use `-n` as well. **I highly recommend
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creating a new profile for using this tool (whether it's Chrome or Firefox) just so it doesn't accidentally delete some tabs or something**.
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##### Using a cookies file
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#### Using a cookies file
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Another method is if you have a Netscape-format cookies file, which you can pass the path with `-c` / `--cookies`:
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Also note that when using this from WSL, avoid reusing a Windows Chrome profile path (`/mnt/c/.../User Data`) with `-p`. Linux Chrome/Chromium in WSL does not reliably read/decrypt Windows profile data. Use a Linux profile directory
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instead (for example `~/.config/google-chrome`) or use a cookie file.
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##### Using remote debugging to connect to a running instance
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#### Using remote debugging to connect to a running instance
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You can also start Chrome/Chromium with a remote debugging port, and connect this program to it. For example:
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