diff --git a/app/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/Downloader.java b/app/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/Downloader.java
index 1cc4fcdf2..3c701fde3 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/Downloader.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/Downloader.java
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ import javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection;
 public class Downloader implements org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.Downloader {
     
     private static final String USER_AGENT = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0";
+    private static String mCookies = "";
 
     private static Downloader instance = null;
 
@@ -51,6 +52,14 @@ public class Downloader implements org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.Downloader {
         return instance;
     }
 
+    public static synchronized void setCookies(String cookies) {
+        Downloader.mCookies = cookies;
+    }
+
+    public static synchronized String getCookies() {
+        return Downloader.mCookies;
+    }
+
     /**Download the text file at the supplied URL as in download(String),
      * but set the HTTP header field "Accept-Language" to the supplied string.
      * @param siteUrl the URL of the text file to return the contents of
@@ -89,6 +98,10 @@ public class Downloader implements org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.Downloader {
             con.setRequestMethod("GET");
             con.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", USER_AGENT);
 
+            if (getCookies().length() > 0) {
+                con.setRequestProperty("Cookie", getCookies());
+            }
+
             in = new BufferedReader(
                     new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream()));
             String inputLine;