> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://notewise.click/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Private videos and Docker

> Use cookies for restricted YouTube videos and run NoteWise safely in Docker.

Private, members-only, age-gated, or region-restricted videos need the same browser session access that can view the video. NoteWise reads a Netscape-format cookies file when you pass `--cookie-file` or set `YOUTUBE_COOKIE_FILE`.

<Warning>
  Cookie files are session tokens. Do not commit them, paste them into issues,
  or mount them writable in containers.
</Warning>

## Cookies

```bash theme={"theme":{"light":"github-light","dark":"tokyo-night"}}
notewise process "https://youtu.be/VIDEO_ID" --cookie-file ./youtube-cookies.txt
```

For repeated use:

```bash theme={"theme":{"light":"github-light","dark":"tokyo-night"}}
YOUTUBE_COOKIE_FILE=/absolute/path/youtube-cookies.txt notewise process "https://youtu.be/VIDEO_ID"
```

If YouTube has no transcript for the selected language, NoteWise cannot generate notes from that video.

## Docker

The published image is `ghcr.io/whoisjayd/notewise:latest`. The runtime uses Python 3.13 slim, user `notewise` with uid `1001`, workdir `/output`, entrypoint `notewise`, and `NOTEWISE_HOME=/home/notewise/.notewise`.

```bash theme={"theme":{"light":"github-light","dark":"tokyo-night"}}
docker run --rm \
  -e GEMINI_API_KEY="$GEMINI_API_KEY" \
  -v "$PWD/output:/output" \
  -v "$PWD/.notewise:/home/notewise/.notewise" \
  ghcr.io/whoisjayd/notewise:latest \
  process "https://youtu.be/VIDEO_ID" --no-ui
```

With cookies:

```bash theme={"theme":{"light":"github-light","dark":"tokyo-night"}}
docker run --rm \
  -e GEMINI_API_KEY="$GEMINI_API_KEY" \
  -v "$PWD/output:/output" \
  -v "$PWD/.notewise:/home/notewise/.notewise" \
  -v "$PWD/youtube-cookies.txt:/cookies/youtube.txt:ro" \
  ghcr.io/whoisjayd/notewise:latest \
  process "https://youtu.be/VIDEO_ID" --cookie-file /cookies/youtube.txt --no-ui
```

Persist `/home/notewise/.notewise` if you want cache, logs, config, and OAuth token directories to survive container runs.