diff --git a/.env.example b/.env.example
index 1f549ee..c8aad70 100644
--- a/.env.example
+++ b/.env.example
@@ -26,3 +26,10 @@ FORCE_LIVE_URL=
 # avoid it. Use a throwaway/secondary Google account, not your main one —
 # this file is a live session credential. Never commit the raw cookies.txt.
 YTDLP_COOKIES_B64=
+
+# URL of a bgutil-ytdlp-pot-provider HTTP server (see docker-compose.yml
+# sc_pot_provider). Needed alongside cookies to avoid YouTube's "The page
+# needs to be reloaded" proof-of-origin token check. In docker-compose this
+# is auto-set to http://sc_pot_provider:4416; leave blank for local dev
+# unless you're running the provider yourself.
+YTDLP_POT_PROVIDER_URL=
diff --git a/apps/api-daemon/Dockerfile b/apps/api-daemon/Dockerfile
index 54008f5..505ebc0 100644
--- a/apps/api-daemon/Dockerfile
+++ b/apps/api-daemon/Dockerfile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ FROM node:22-slim
 
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
       ffmpeg python3 python3-pip ca-certificates \
-    && pip3 install --break-system-packages -U yt-dlp \
+    && pip3 install --break-system-packages -U yt-dlp bgutil-ytdlp-pot-provider \
     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
 RUN corepack enable
diff --git a/apps/api-daemon/src/capture/streamIngest.ts b/apps/api-daemon/src/capture/streamIngest.ts
index 2636d2b..143b5a2 100644
--- a/apps/api-daemon/src/capture/streamIngest.ts
+++ b/apps/api-daemon/src/capture/streamIngest.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import { prisma } from "@streamclipper/db";
 import { env } from "../env";
 import { QUEUE_NAMES, signalDetectionQueue, type StreamIngestJob } from "../queues";
 import { redisConnection } from "../redis";
-import { ytdlpCookieArgs } from "../ytdlpCookies";
+import { ytdlpAntiBotArgs } from "../ytdlpCookies";
 
 const SEGMENT_LIST_POLL_MS = 5_000;
 
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ async function runCapture(job: Job<StreamIngestJob>): Promise<void> {
   const ytdlp = spawn(
     "yt-dlp",
     [
-      ...ytdlpCookieArgs(),
+      ...ytdlpAntiBotArgs(),
       "-f", "bestvideo+bestaudio/best", "-o", "-", youtubeUrl,
     ],
     { stdio: ["ignore", "pipe", "pipe"] },
diff --git a/apps/api-daemon/src/env.ts b/apps/api-daemon/src/env.ts
index 246c891..4d401f0 100644
--- a/apps/api-daemon/src/env.ts
+++ b/apps/api-daemon/src/env.ts
@@ -8,4 +8,5 @@ export const env = {
   port: Number(process.env.API_DAEMON_PORT ?? 4001),
   forceLiveUrl: process.env.FORCE_LIVE_URL ?? "",
   ytdlpCookiesB64: process.env.YTDLP_COOKIES_B64 ?? "",
+  ytdlpPotProviderUrl: process.env.YTDLP_POT_PROVIDER_URL ?? "",
 };
diff --git a/apps/api-daemon/src/youtubePolling.ts b/apps/api-daemon/src/youtubePolling.ts
index cb9bc4c..083fbfc 100644
--- a/apps/api-daemon/src/youtubePolling.ts
+++ b/apps/api-daemon/src/youtubePolling.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { prisma } from "@streamclipper/db";
 import { env } from "./env";
 import { streamIngestQueue } from "./queues";
 import { sendTelegramMessage } from "./telegram";
-import { ytdlpCookieArgs } from "./ytdlpCookies";
+import { ytdlpAntiBotArgs } from "./ytdlpCookies";
 
 const execFileAsync = promisify(execFile);
 
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ async function findLiveVideoId(channelId: string): Promise<string | null> {
       [
         "--simulate",
         "--no-warnings",
-        ...ytdlpCookieArgs(),
+        ...ytdlpAntiBotArgs(),
         "-f", "bestvideo+bestaudio/best",
         "--print", "%(id)s",
         liveUrl,
diff --git a/apps/api-daemon/src/ytdlpCookies.ts b/apps/api-daemon/src/ytdlpCookies.ts
index 4314409..e6b203b 100644
--- a/apps/api-daemon/src/ytdlpCookies.ts
+++ b/apps/api-daemon/src/ytdlpCookies.ts
@@ -4,11 +4,13 @@ import { env } from "./env";
 const COOKIES_PATH = "/tmp/yt-cookies.txt";
 
 /**
- * YouTube increasingly bot-checks yt-dlp requests from datacenter IPs
- * ("Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"), which no --extractor-args
- * combination reliably bypasses. An authenticated session's cookies avoid
- * the check. The cookies file is never committed — it's decoded once at
- * startup from a Coolify-managed env var into a local temp file.
+ * YouTube's anti-bot layer against datacenter IPs has two parts, both
+ * needed together: a "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" wall (avoided
+ * with an authenticated session's cookies) and a "The page needs to be
+ * reloaded" proof-of-origin token check (avoided by querying the
+ * bgutil-ytdlp-pot-provider sidecar — see docker-compose.yml sc_pot_provider).
+ * The cookies file is never committed — it's decoded once at startup from a
+ * Coolify-managed env var into a local temp file.
  */
 const cookiesFilePath: string | null = env.ytdlpCookiesB64
   ? (() => {
@@ -17,6 +19,16 @@ const cookiesFilePath: string | null = env.ytdlpCookiesB64
     })()
   : null;
 
-export function ytdlpCookieArgs(): string[] {
-  return cookiesFilePath ? ["--cookies", cookiesFilePath] : [];
+export function ytdlpAntiBotArgs(): string[] {
+  const args: string[] = [];
+
+  if (cookiesFilePath) {
+    args.push("--cookies", cookiesFilePath);
+  }
+
+  if (env.ytdlpPotProviderUrl) {
+    args.push("--extractor-args", `youtubepot-bgutilhttp:base_url=${env.ytdlpPotProviderUrl}`);
+  }
+
+  return args;
 }
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 445d2f2..66841a4 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ services:
     volumes:
       - postgres-data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
 
+  sc_pot_provider:
+    image: brainicism/bgutil-ytdlp-pot-provider
+    restart: unless-stopped
+
   sc_api_daemon:
     build:
       context: .
@@ -35,6 +39,7 @@ services:
       TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN: ${TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN:-}
       TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID: ${TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID:-}
       YTDLP_COOKIES_B64: ${YTDLP_COOKIES_B64:-}
+      YTDLP_POT_PROVIDER_URL: http://sc_pot_provider:4416
     volumes:
       - shared-media:/shared-media
     ports:
@@ -42,6 +47,7 @@ services:
     depends_on:
       - sc_redis
       - sc_postgres
+      - sc_pot_provider
 
   sc_heavy_worker:
     build: