Problems with CSPAN video

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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

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 ```):

adminlocals-MacBook-Pro:Desktop avicens$ youtube-dl --verbose https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4620848/sen-warren-wells-fargo-ceo
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4620848/sen-warren-wells-fargo-ceo']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.09.19
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Darwin-14.5.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[CSpan] c4620848: Downloading webpage
[CSpan] 4620848: Downloading JSON metadata
[CSpan] 4620848: Downloading XML
[download] Downloading playlist: Sen. Warren and Wells Fargo CEO
[CSpan] playlist Sen. Warren and Wells Fargo CEO: Collected 21 video ids (downloading 21 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 21
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'https://media.c-spanvideo.org/dynamic/2016/09/20/20160920085928003_hd/20160920085928003_hd.MP4-M20.mp4?Policy=eyJTdGF0ZW1lbnQiOlt7IlJlc291cmNlIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9tZWRpYS5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmcvZHluYW1pYy8yMDE2LzA5LzIwLzIwMTYwOTIwMDg1OTI4MDAzX2hkLzIwMTYwOTIwMDg1OTI4MDAzX2hkLk1QNC1NMjAubXA0IiwiQ29uZGl0aW9uIjp7IkRhdGVMZXNzVGhhbiI6eyJBV1M6RXBvY2hUaW1lIjoxNDc0NDAxMzkxfSwiSXBBZGRyZXNzIjp7IkFXUzpTb3VyY2VJcCI6IjIwNy44Ny4yMDguMjI2In19fV19&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIHKVWBEAXX562G7Q&Signature=aaFjeMQawt~YPWDxwE-HmgJEbSkyv4Jn7QPAJXcoqZVkqG5sN2yaFw2GO831dt0wQVRhdKABJH5MkB2ZwBbT26OIKsjjrqRjst20zQiB45HDX2~k1eN5dLeliO~qFzpMyiKHw6P1T5z3I5YyOofobjBOVf3C9ZmURLMhXEKAa68_'
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1699, in process_info
    success = dl(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1641, in dl
    return fd.download(name, info)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 354, in download
    return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 58, in real_download
    data = self.ydl.urlopen(request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2001, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 437, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 550, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 475, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 558, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

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If the purpose of this issue is a site support request please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by yours):

• Single video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc
• Single video: https://youtu.be/BaW_jenozKc
• Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4lCao7KL_QFVb7Iudeipvc2BCavECqzc

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Hi, I see you've addressed CSPAN videos (specifically ones hosted by the Senate) but I can't seem to get this to work on a user-generated clip (the one described above). Many apologies if this is operator error, but I was hoping you could take a look. Thank you.

[yan12125]

Downloading works for me. Could you upload the output of the following command?

youtube-dl -v --dump-pages "https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4620848/sen-warren-wells-fargo-ceo"

[fnadde42]

With Python version 2.7.6 I get an error but with Python version 3.4.3 I can download. Seems like a Python problem.

A solution can be to download the lastest Python and running youtube-dl through that instead.

[yan12125]

It's suggested to use 2.7.9 or above - 2.7.6 is way too old. There are lots of significant network-related improvements in 2.7.9.
Feel free to open a new issue if you found the latest 2.7 (2.7.13) is broken for some videos.