diff --git a/youtube_transcript_api/_api.py b/youtube_transcript_api/_api.py
index 93bbf48..43a760b 100644
--- a/youtube_transcript_api/_api.py
+++ b/youtube_transcript_api/_api.py
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ except ImportError:
 
 from ._transcripts import TranscriptListFetcher
 
+from ._errors import (
+    CookiePathInvalid,
+    CookiesInvalid
+)
 
 class YouTubeTranscriptApi():
     @classmethod
@@ -60,7 +64,6 @@ class YouTubeTranscriptApi():
         with requests.Session() as http_client:
             if cookies:
                 http_client.cookies = cls.load_cookies(cookies)
-            
             http_client.proxies = proxies if proxies else {}
             return TranscriptListFetcher(http_client).fetch(video_id)
 
@@ -121,7 +124,6 @@ class YouTubeTranscriptApi():
         :rtype [{'text': str, 'start': float, 'end': float}]:
         """
         return cls.list_transcripts(video_id, proxies, cookies).find_transcript(languages).fetch()
-           
     
     @classmethod
     def load_cookies(cls, cookies):
@@ -130,9 +132,9 @@ class YouTubeTranscriptApi():
             cj = cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar()
             cj.load(cookies)
         except IOError as e:
-            print("Warning: Path for cookies file was not valid. Did not load any cookies")
+            raise CookiePathInvalid
         except FileNotFoundError as e:
-            print("Warning: Path for cookies file was not valid. Did not load any cookies")
+            raise CookiePathInvalid
         if not cj:
-            raise IOError
+            raise CookiesInvalid
         return cj 
diff --git a/youtube_transcript_api/_errors.py b/youtube_transcript_api/_errors.py
index 2b67e9e..8a663e5 100644
--- a/youtube_transcript_api/_errors.py
+++ b/youtube_transcript_api/_errors.py
@@ -55,6 +55,14 @@ class TranslationLanguageNotAvailable(CouldNotRetrieveTranscript):
     CAUSE_MESSAGE = 'The requested translation language is not available'
 
 
+class CookiePathInvalid(CouldNotRetrieveTranscript):
+    CAUSE_MESSAGE = 'Path to cookie file was not valid'
+
+
+class CookiesInvalid(CouldNotRetrieveTranscript):
+    CAUSE_MESSAGE = 'The cookies provided are not valid (may have expired)'
+
+
 class NoTranscriptFound(CouldNotRetrieveTranscript):
     CAUSE_MESSAGE = (
         'No transcripts were found for any of the requested language codes: {requested_language_codes}\n\n'