[Soundcloud] HTTP 401 Error

[chriscz]

• I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2016.11.27

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$ youtube-dl "https://soundcloud.com/besvendsen/be-svendsen-live-icarus-burning-man-2016" --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'https://soundcloud.com/besvendsen/be-svendsen-live-icarus-burning-man-2016', u'--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.11.27
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Linux-3.13.0-97-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-14.04-trusty
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-76045-g97be5d4, ffprobe N-76045-g97be5d4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[soundcloud] besvendsen/be-svendsen-live-icarus-burning-man-2016: Resolving id
[soundcloud] besvendsen/be-svendsen-live-icarus-burning-man-2016: Downloading info JSON
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized (caused by HTTPError()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 404, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2001, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 410, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 523, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 448, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 531, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

Description

• I have tried logging in / providing credentials on the commandline to no effect

Confirmed Fix

• Update the _CLIENT_ID in soundcloud.py

[vaibhav1312]

Last time when this error occurred, they changed the 'client id' here is the link to similar previous bug #6930

[chriscz]

You are correct. I just changed the client ID and it seems to work fine now.

[0rvar]

@chriscz How did you change the client ID, and to what? Is this something that can be done in config, or do you need to rebuild youtube-dl from source?

[chriscz]

I just updated it in source. I assume you would have to register for a client ID for a legitimate one. It would be best to wait for the developers to generate a new one.

A temporary fix would be updating ikfon10/youtube-dl@6c7975d as shown in issue #6930

[vaibhav1312]

@chriscz Can you please tell me the client id that you changed. And, what exactly did you change client_id or iphone_client_id

[chriscz]

@vaibhav1312 Exactly the one changed in the commit I mention above (extractors/soundcloud.py:124) . I just searched the internet for an alternative one. It's not worth submitting a pull-request, because the core developers probably want to create a client identifier they have control over.

[tomtastic]

Thanks calbrecht!