It shows pasting in the URL with no quotes. I found on macOS I have to quote it, or at least that was the case the first time I tried to use it a while back, so I kept doing it.<p>Something to keep in mind if someone is trying a URL that isn’t working.<p>Something else I didn’t see mentioned was using browser cookies if you’re trying to use it on a site like X that requires login. The error message hints at the flag to use, but doesn’t show usage. Follow up the flag with the browser that has the cookies you want to use.<p>yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser Safari "<a href="https://x.com/blah/blah" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/blah/blah</a>"