From d2ff2c91bbac42e4d84131d7cf23d79c910d5309 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: monnef <1975567+mnn@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2022 01:02:20 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [curiositystream] Get `auth_token` from cookie (#3836)

Closes #3753
Authored by: mnn
---
 yt_dlp/extractor/curiositystream.py | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/curiositystream.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/curiositystream.py
index 5b76b29ff4..e71b052897 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/curiositystream.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/curiositystream.py
@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@ class CuriosityStreamBaseIE(InfoExtractor):
 
     def _call_api(self, path, video_id, query=None):
         headers = {}
+        if not self._auth_token:
+            auth_cookie = self._get_cookies('https://curiositystream.com').get('auth_token')
+            if auth_cookie:
+                self.write_debug('Obtained auth_token cookie')
+                self._auth_token = cookie.value
         if self._auth_token:
             headers['X-Auth-Token'] = self._auth_token
         result = self._download_json(