From 9fd9de24b96390593fb79341887283f289f044db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Sweeting Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 00:51:00 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Updated Configuration (markdown) --- Configuration.md | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Configuration.md b/Configuration.md index ee50037..2b6574d 100644 --- a/Configuration.md +++ b/Configuration.md @@ -496,7 +496,10 @@ Domains to attempt download of git repositories on using `git clone`. --- #### `COOKIES_FILE` **Possible Values:** [`None`]/`/path/to/cookies.txt`/... -Cookies file to pass to wget. To capture sites that require a user to be logged in, you can specify a path to a [netscape-format](http://www.cookiecentral.com/faq/#3.5) `cookies.txt` file for wget to use. You can generate this file by using a browser extension to export your cookies in this format, or by using wget with `--save-cookies`. + +Cookies file to pass to `wget`, `curl`, `yt-dlp` and other extractors that don't use Chrome (with its `CHROME_USER_DATA_DIR`) for authentication. To capture sites that require a user to be logged in, you configure this option to point to a [netscape-format `cookies.txt`](http://www.cookiecentral.com/faq/#3.5) file containing all the cookies you want to use during archiving. + +You can generate this `cookies.txt` file by using a number of different [browser extensions](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/get-cookiestxt-locally/cclelndahbckbenkjhflpdbgdldlbecc) that can export your cookies in this format, or by using `wget` on the command line with `--save-cookies` + `--user=... --password=...`. *Related options:* [`SAVE_WGET`](#save_wget), [`SAVE_WARC`](#save_warc), [`CHECK_SSL_VALIDITY`](#check_ssl_validity), [`WGET_BINARY`](#wget_binary)