From 7ea2787920cccc6b8ea30791993d114fbd564434 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bashonly <88596187+bashonly@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 05:36:38 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] [ie/reddit] Improve error handling (#11573)

Authored by: bashonly
---
 yt_dlp/extractor/reddit.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/reddit.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/reddit.py
index b633dc48a..7325e547b 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/reddit.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/reddit.py
@@ -259,6 +259,8 @@ class RedditIE(InfoExtractor):
                 f'https://www.reddit.com/{slug}/.json', video_id, expected_status=403)
         except ExtractorError as e:
             if isinstance(e.cause, json.JSONDecodeError):
+                if self._get_cookies('https://www.reddit.com/').get('reddit_session'):
+                    raise ExtractorError('Your IP address is unable to access the Reddit API', expected=True)
                 self.raise_login_required('Account authentication is required')
             raise