Download a video not available in country

VPN
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I need to download a video that’s not available in my country (US). On Firefox, I can play the video using a free VPN extension to change to a different country. I then googled for a site of free proxies and tried a bunch of proxies (i.e. --proxy 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:xx'. All resulted in connection lost or reset by peer, e.g.:

ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer> (caused by URLError(ConnectionResetError(104, ‘Connection reset by peer’)))
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer> (caused by URLError(ConnectionResetError(104, ‘Connection reset by peer’)))
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer> (caused by URLError(ConnectionResetError(104, ‘Connection reset by peer’)))

Any tips? Much appreciated.

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did you verify that the proxy work in other tools, browsers? otherwise it’s useless to start trying to figure out why it didn’t work in youtube-dl.

from the looks of it, if you just supplied ip:port, you might need to specify what kind of proxy. http:// https:// socks5:// etc

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You’ll need a VPN that runs on the computer itself and not in a browser. They do exist, but for a safe one you’ll need to pay a fee.

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WindScribe has a free tier that is bandwidth limited per month.