How to Download Nebula Videos

Nebula's app lets you download videos for offline viewing, which is fine on a phone or tablet. I wanted to watch some offline on my laptop though yt-dlp can do this for you. yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser firefox "https://nebula.tv/videos/SLUG" --cookies-from-browser firefox reads Firefox's cookies.sqlite directly. As long as you're logged into Nebula in Firefox, yt-dlp authenticates as you. That works for any site that needs a login, not just Nebula. Find your profile location Auto-detection only checks the standard locations. If your Firefox profile lives somewhere else, you have to name the profile directory yourself: yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser "firefox:/path/to/profile" "URL" Give it the folder containing cookies.sqlite, not the file. yt-dlp adds cookies.sqlite on its own. To find the file you can use the find command: find "$HOME" -name cookies.sqlite 2>/dev/null Take everything before /cookies.sqlite and use that after firefox:. You can also open about:profiles in Firefox,…