HTTP error 403 Forbidden on download.

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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 ```):

Putins-MBP:~ putin$ youtube-dl -v -f best "https://www.viceland.com/en_us/video/israel-cyber-nation/5807cd93c96558947ef42c3f" --ap-mso DTV --ap-username XXXXXXX --ap-password XXXXXX --prefer-ffmpeg
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '-f', 'best', 'https://www.viceland.com/en_us/video/israel-cyber-nation/5807cd93c96558947ef42c3f', '--ap-mso', 'DTV', '--ap-username', 'PRIVATE', '--ap-password', 'PRIVATE', '--prefer-ffmpeg']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.11.22
[debug] Python version 3.5.1 - Darwin-16.3.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.2, ffprobe 3.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Viceland] 5807cd93c96558947ef42c3f: Downloading webpage
[Viceland] 5807cd93c96558947ef42c3f: Retrieving Media Token
[Viceland] 5807cd93c96558947ef42c3f: Downloading JSON metadata
[uplynk:preplay] d649fafa316d45e9b0e83035b1ec0d11: Downloading JSON metadata
[uplynk:preplay] d649fafa316d45e9b0e83035b1ec0d11: Downloading m3u8 information
[uplynk:preplay] d649fafa316d45e9b0e83035b1ec0d11: Downloading JSON metadata
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'http://content-ause3.uplynk.com/d649fafa316d45e9b0e83035b1ec0d11/h.m3u8'
[download] Destination: Israel - Cyber Nation-5807cd93c96558947ef42c3f.mp4
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffmpeg -y -headers 'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20150101 Firefox/47.0 (Chrome)
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
' -i http://content-ause3.uplynk.com/d649fafa316d45e9b0e83035b1ec0d11/h.m3u8 -c copy -f mp4 -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc 'file:Israel - Cyber Nation-5807cd93c96558947ef42c3f.mp4.part'
ffmpeg version 3.2 Copyright (c) 2000-2016 the FFmpeg developers
  built with Apple LLVM version 8.0.0 (clang-800.0.42.1)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/3.2 --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-hardcoded-tables --enable-avresample --cc=clang --host-cflags= --host-ldflags= --enable-ffplay --enable-frei0r --enable-libass --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-libfreetype --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopus --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --enable-opencl --disable-lzma --enable-libopenjpeg --disable-decoder=jpeg2000 --extra-cflags=-I/usr/local/Cellar/openjpeg/2.1.2/include/openjpeg-2.1 --enable-nonfree --enable-vda
  libavutil      55. 34.100 / 55. 34.100
  libavcodec     57. 64.100 / 57. 64.100
  libavformat    57. 56.100 / 57. 56.100
  libavdevice    57.  1.100 / 57.  1.100
  libavfilter     6. 65.100 /  6. 65.100
  libavresample   3.  1.  0 /  3.  1.  0
  libswscale      4.  2.100 /  4.  2.100
  libswresample   2.  3.100 /  2.  3.100
  libpostproc    54.  1.100 / 54.  1.100
[https @ 0x7fe08b42f5e0] HTTP error 403 Forbidden
Unable to open key file https://content-ause3.uplynk.com/check2?b=d649fafa316d45e9b0e83035b1ec0d11&v=d649fafa316d45e9b0e83035b1ec0d11&r=h
[hls,applehttp @ 0x7fe08c005800] Error when loading first segment 'http://stg-ec-ore-u.uplynk.com/slices/d64/78db0ac9711d4d7ebb50772ad6d16b95/d649fafa316d45e9b0e83035b1ec0d11/H00000000.ts?x=0&si=0'
http://content-ause3.uplynk.com/d649fafa316d45e9b0e83035b1ec0d11/h.m3u8: Invalid data found when processing input


ERROR: ffmpeg exited with code 1
  File "/Users/putin/.pyenv/versions/3.5.1/lib/python3.5/runpy.py", line 170, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", mod_spec)
  File "/Users/putin/.pyenv/versions/3.5.1/lib/python3.5/runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/__main__.py", line 19, in <module>
    youtube_dl.main()
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 444, in main
    _real_main(argv)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 434, in _real_main
    retcode = ydl.download(all_urls)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1791, in download
    url, force_generic_extractor=self.params.get('force_generic_extractor', False))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 705, in extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 776, in process_ie_result
    new_result, download=download, extra_info=extra_info)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 751, in process_ie_result
    return self.process_video_result(ie_result, download=download)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1435, in process_video_result
    self.process_info(new_info)
  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 353, in download
    return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/external.py", line 43, in real_download
    self.get_basename(), retval))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 162, in report_error
    self.ydl.report_error(*args, **kargs)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 568, in report_error
    self.trouble(error_message, tb)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 530, in trouble
    tb_data = traceback.format_list(traceback.extract_stack())
...
<end of log>

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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.viceland.com/en_us/video/israel-cyber-nation/5807cd93c96558947ef42c3f

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Trying to download this video off the site. It requires an ap-mso login which I have. But I seem to be getting a 403 forbidden error. Even Tried using the chromecast user agent and its the same result.
Also this might be geo restricted but I'm behind a VPN. Tested before attempting to download. My ipad can seem to download everything just fine using Universal Video Downloader Plus. Not sure why I'm having a hard time here on youtube-dl.

If anymore info is needed. Just drop a message here and I'll try to reply ASAP.

[remitamine]

install pycrypto and add --hls-prefer-native option to the command.

[drpoutine]

ah thanks for this.