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added documentation for using cookies feature via CLI to the README

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@ -214,6 +214,7 @@ Using the CLI:
```
youtube_transcript_api <first_video_id> <second_video_id> --http-proxy http://user:pass@domain:port --https-proxy https://user:pass@domain:port
```
## Cookies
Some videos are age restricted, so this module won't be able to access those videos without some sort of authentication. To do this, you will need to have access to the desired video in a browser. Then, you will need to download that pages cookies into a text file. You can use the Chrome extension [cookies.txt](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cookiestxt/njabckikapfpffapmjgojcnbfjonfjfg?hl=en) or the Firefox extension [cookies.txt](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookies-txt/).
@ -223,11 +224,18 @@ Once you have that, you can use it with the module to access age-restricted vide
```python
from youtube_transcript_api import YouTubeTranscriptApi
YouTubeTranscriptApi.get_transcript(video_id, cookies=<string of path to your cookies text file>)
YouTubeTranscriptApi.get_transcript(video_id, cookies='/path/to/your/cookies.txt')
YouTubeTranscriptApi.get_transcripts([video_id], cookies=<string of path to your cookies text file>)
YouTubeTranscriptApi.get_transcripts([video_id], cookies='/path/to/your/cookies.txt')
```
Using the CLI:
```
youtube_transcript_api <first_video_id> <second_video_id> --cookies /path/to/your/cookies.txt
```
## Warning
This code uses an undocumented part of the YouTube API, which is called by the YouTube web-client. So there is no guarantee that it won't stop working tomorrow, if they change how things work. I will however do my best to make things working again as soon as possible if that happens. So if it stops working, let me know!