From 8820101aa3152e5f4811541c645f8b5de231ba8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bashonly <88596187+bashonly@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2025 18:22:04 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] [ie/youtube] Use impersonation for downloading subtitles
 (#13786)

Closes #13770
Authored by: bashonly
---
 yt_dlp/extractor/youtube/_video.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube/_video.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube/_video.py
index fc1f087ac..5968edc60 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube/_video.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube/_video.py
@@ -4056,6 +4056,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
                     'ext': fmt,
                     'url': urljoin('https://www.youtube.com', update_url_query(base_url, query)),
                     'name': sub_name,
+                    'impersonate': True,
                     STREAMING_DATA_CLIENT_NAME: client_name,
                 })