*Disregard* Youtube 403 Forbidden error

[jesuspi6127]

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Add -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with, copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

youtube-dl -v -f 18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwCsJvmwAGw
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-c', u'-o', u'%(title)s - %(uploader)s.%(ext)s', u'-v', u'-f', u'18', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwCsJvmwAGw']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.08.01
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 - Linux-3.16.7-35-desktop-x86_64-with-SuSE-13.2-x86_64
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.0.2, ffprobe 3.0.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] UwCsJvmwAGw: Downloading webpage
[youtube] UwCsJvmwAGw: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] UwCsJvmwAGw: Extracting video information
[youtube] UwCsJvmwAGw: Downloading MPD manifest
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'https://r1---sn-ja5gvjv-cvbs.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?mn=sn-ja5gvjv-cvbs&mm=31&ipbits=0&requiressl=yes&signature=D4FBFFC5F6805C44CC29FFD53F6C5BFC60438939.1E5D52025C25BEC8AA4675B8BBF684E1B2D33C8F&expire=1470175245&sver=3&mv=m&mt=1470152945&ms=au&ei=rcOgV4D2Js7a-gW8sYrIDg&lmt=1470090121899914&dur=796.142&ip=200.118.99.17&key=yt6&itag=18&id=o-AOuiT2mM1yP54FQEjMvY0ELPV1UCam4RotDgEemWecaX&sparams=dur%2Cei%2Cid%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Clmt%2Cmime%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cpl%2Cratebypass%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cupn%2Cexpire&mime=video%2Fmp4&upn=U2V14nJNGek&fexp=9406000%2C9410705%2C9416891%2C9419451%2C9422555%2C9422596%2C9427833%2C9428398%2C9431012%2C9433092%2C9433096%2C9433223%2C9433851%2C9433946%2C9435526%2C9435876%2C9437066%2C9437553%2C9438327%2C9438480%2C9438495%2C9438662%2C9438955%2C9439652%2C9440141%2C9440389%2C9440831%2C9440880%2C9441085%2C9441414%2C9441471%2C9441560%2C9441774%2C9442254%2C9442424%2C9443425&pl=22&source=youtube&ratebypass=yes&initcwndbps=626250'
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1683, in process_info
    success = dl(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1625, in dl
    return fd.download(name, info)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 350, in download
    return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 58, in real_download
    data = self.ydl.urlopen(request)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1985, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 435, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 548, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 467, in error
    result = self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 407, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 654, in http_error_302
    return self.parent.open(new, timeout=req.timeout)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 435, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 548, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 473, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 407, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 556, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden


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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Youtube seems to have implemented some back end changes and now YTDL no longer works. It would seem not exclusive to YTDL as I have other programs that can download from youtube (gPodder, JDownloader 2 and the Chrome add-on Youtube Plus) and they are all broken at this point.

[jesuspi6127]

Youtube seems to have solved the problem, please disregard this report