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

(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"
    }
  ]