X-Git-Url: http://git.bitcoin.ninja/index.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.md;h=75253199c359cd3bdca47cc89713dcf2403f0a8e;hb=9cb1a06b6c8fbeb6cfdbf0533ea60a6624fa1246;hp=4fc83b8e307279b8f620e9cb930e005a39133683;hpb=2098aee7d6facb9de2253f9b71a2dfa9b932b4cb;p=youtube-dl

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@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ Either prepend `http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=` or separate the ID from the opt
 
 Use the `--cookies` option, for example `--cookies /path/to/cookies/file.txt`. Note that the cookies file must be in Mozilla/Netscape format and the first line of the cookies file must be either `# HTTP Cookie File` or `# Netscape HTTP Cookie File`. Make sure you have correct [newline format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline) in the cookies file and convert newlines if necessary to correspond with your OS, namely `CRLF` (`\r\n`) for Windows, `LF` (`\n`) for Linux and `CR` (`\r`) for Mac OS. `HTTP Error 400: Bad Request` when using `--cookies` is a good sign of invalid newline format.
 
-Passing cookies to youtube-dl is a good way to workaround login when a particular extractor does not implement it explicitly.
+Passing cookies to youtube-dl is a good way to workaround login when a particular extractor does not implement it explicitly. Another use case is working around [CAPTCHA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA) some websites require you to solve in particular cases in order to get access (e.g. YouTube, CloudFlare).
 
 ### Can you add support for this anime video site, or site which shows current movies for free?