From 94aa064497122084c68f5f366c4c0ad5ea082485 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lesmiscore <nao20010128@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 May 2022 00:38:30 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] [utils] YoutubeDLCookieJar: Detect and reject JSON file
 (#3599)

Authored by: Lesmiscore
---
 yt_dlp/utils.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/yt_dlp/utils.py b/yt_dlp/utils.py
index 35426568b..3b75ab6b3 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/utils.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/utils.py
@@ -1507,6 +1507,10 @@ class YoutubeDLCookieJar(compat_cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar):
                 try:
                     cf.write(prepare_line(line))
                 except compat_cookiejar.LoadError as e:
+                    if f'{line.strip()} '[0] in '[{"':
+                        raise compat_cookiejar.LoadError(
+                            'Cookies file must be Netscape formatted, not JSON. See  '
+                            'https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#how-do-i-pass-cookies-to-youtube-dl')
                     write_string(f'WARNING: skipping cookie file entry due to {e}: {line!r}\n')
                     continue
         cf.seek(0)