app-store/apps/viewtube/metadata/optional.md

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## (Optional) Use cookies from a real account
You can provide your own cookies to circumvent any Rate Limiting Issue.
### YouTube cookie
- Navigate to YouTube in a web browser
- Log in, preferrably with a separate account you don't use often
- Open up the dev tools console
- Type `document.cookie`
- Copy the entire response into the `VIEWTUBE_YOUTUBE_COOKIE` environment variable
### YouTube identifier
- Navigate to a video
- Right click and click "view source"
- Press CTRL+F to search for "ID\_TOKEN"
- Copy this value into the `VIEWTUBE_YOUTUBE_IDENTIFIER` environment variable
```
"form_fields": [
{
"type": "text",
"label": "Youtube Cookie",
"hint": "Optional, Read below",
"required": false,
"env_variable": "VIEWTUBE_YOUTUBE_COOKIE"
},
{
"type": "text",
"label": "Youtube Identifier",
"hint": "Optional, Read below",
"required": false,
"env_variable": "VIEWTUBE_YOUTUBE_IDENTIFIER"
}
]
```