Load cookies from cookies.txt

.gitignore

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 venv
 .venv
-__pycache__
+__pycache__
+cookies.txt

app.py

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+import http.cookiejar
 from flask import Flask, Response
 import requests
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 
 app = Flask(__name__)
+
+cookie_jar = http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar('cookies.txt')
+try:
+    cookie_jar.load(ignore_discard=True, ignore_expires=True)
+except FileNotFoundError:
+    print("cookies.txt not found, starting with empty cookie jar")
+
 s = requests.Session()
 s.headers.update({
     "User-Agent": "Twitterbot/1.0"
 })
+s.cookies = cookie_jar  # type: ignore
 
 @app.route("/watch/<video_id>")
 def proxy(video_id):