HTTP error on a viewable multifeed Youtube video

[v1kn]

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I experienced the following issue when trying to download a video (link in the output below) from Youtube. The video is viewable on the website.

OS: xubuntu 16.04
Python: using virtualenv, python3-pip, all pip packages installed locally under $HOME

youtube-dl -v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvGDaLqkpTg                                                                                                                                               [1/8976]
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: ['-R', '5', '-v', '-w', '-c', '-f', 'best', '-o', '~/Videos/%(title)s.%(ext)s']
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvGDaLqkpTg']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.11.08.1
[debug] Python version 3.5.1+ - Linux-4.4.0-45-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-16.04-xenial
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.8-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, ffprobe 2.8.8-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] jvGDaLqkpTg: Downloading webpage
[youtube] jvGDaLqkpTg: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] Downloading multifeed video (jvGDaLqkpTg, 3AKt1R1aDnw, RtAMM00gpVc, 6N2fdlP3C5U) - add --no-playlist to just download video jvGDaLqkpTg
[download] Downloading playlist: Tom Clancy Free Weekend Rainbow Whatever
[youtube] playlist Tom Clancy Free Weekend Rainbow Whatever: Collected 4 video ids (downloading 4 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 4
[youtube] jvGDaLqkpTg: Downloading webpage
[youtube] jvGDaLqkpTg: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] jvGDaLqkpTg: Extracting video information
[youtube] jvGDaLqkpTg: Downloading MPD manifest
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://redirector.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?requiressl=yes&ip=89.228.161.79&mime=video%2Fmp4&ipbits=0&ratebypass=yes&signature=240E5A83071B2581523841FD27AE32584C46B03F.31D21A93
45EEB2EF0A143BCCFBE215208FE1DFAE&sparams=ei%2Cgcr%2Cid%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Cmime%2Cratebypass%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cupn%2Cexpire&id=jvGDaLqkpTg.1&ei=qromWIPzBIOLd57kkJAO&upn=v3ptTqXZE1c&gcr=pl&itag=18&expire=1
478954762&source=youtube&key=yt6'
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/.local/pyvenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1699, in process_info
    success = dl(filename, info_dict)
  File "/home/user/.local/pyvenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1641, in dl
    return fd.download(name, info)
  File "/home/user/.local/pyvenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 353, in download
    return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
  File "/home/user/.local/pyvenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 61, in real_download
    data = self.ydl.urlopen(request)
  File "/home/user/.local/pyvenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2001, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 472, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 582, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 504, in error
    result = self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 444, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 696, in http_error_302
    return self.parent.open(new, timeout=req.timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 472, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 582, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 510, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 444, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 590, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

[yan12125]

The URL https://redirector.googlevideo.com/... is suspicious. In general YouTube does not return such URLs. Do all other videos work? And could you paste the result of the following command?

nslookup www.youtube.com

[v1kn]

New development: the video now works.
Nor could I reproduce the issue on my openSUSE box.

perhaps network hiccups?

i will close the issue

edit
for the sake of completion, the output:

Server:       127.0.1.1
Address:    127.0.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
www.youtube.com canonical name = youtube-ui.l.google.com
Name:    youtube-ui.l.google.com
Address:     172.217.16.174

[yan12125]

172.217.16.174 are Google IPs. There were reports that some ISPs intercept YouTube traffic and causing problems in downloading. Anyway, this case looks like a temporary YouTube server-side issue.

[v1kn]

good to know, thanks