Soundcloud results in 403 error #11598

ghost · 2017-01-04T03:07:43Z

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Verbose output:

$ youtube-dl -v https://soundcloud.com/efkv/hair
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://soundcloud.com/efkv/hair']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.01.02
[debug] Python version 2.7.9 - Linux-4.5.2-armada375-armv7l-with-Debian-8
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.9, ffprobe 2.8.9
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[soundcloud] efkv/hair: Resolving id
[soundcloud] efkv/hair: Downloading info JSON
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden (caused by HTTPError()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "/home/rafa/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 406, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/home/rafa/bin/youtube-dl/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 437, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 550, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 475, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 558, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

SwadicalRag · 2017-01-04T08:14:09Z

I'm having the same issue, +1

*EDIT: * replacing my local binary with an installation from pip seems to have fixed this

weird

yan12125 · 2017-01-04T08:46:50Z

@Rafa652 Could you paste the output of:

curl -v "http://api.soundcloud.com/resolve.json?url=http://soundcloud.com/efkv/hair&client_id=fDoItMDbsbZz8dY16ZzARCZmzgHBPotA"

ghost · 2017-01-04T22:57:03Z

Sure thing. This is what I got:

* Hostname was NOT found in DNS cache
*   Trying 93.184.220.127...
* Connected to api.soundcloud.com (93.184.220.127) port 80 (#0)
> GET /resolve.json?url=http://soundcloud.com/efkv/hair&client_id=fDoItMDbsbZz8dY16ZzARCZmzgHBPotA HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.38.0
> Host: api.soundcloud.com
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
< Content-Type: */*
< Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2017 22:55:46 GMT
* Server ECS (lhr/47F2) is not blacklisted
< Server: ECS (lhr/47F2)
< Content-Length: 345
<
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
         "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
        <head>
                <title>403 - Forbidden</title>
        </head>
        <body>
                <h1>403 - Forbidden</h1>
        </body>
</html>
* Connection #0 to host api.soundcloud.com left intact

yan12125 · 2017-01-05T10:25:55Z

Seems soundcloud no longer uses resolve.json

Berndwl · 2017-01-09T09:22:47Z

Does this happen on your home network or on a vps / etc?
Soundcloud seems to blacklist ISPs linked to VPS providers ( atleast this happened to me with an OVH vps

resolve.json is still a valid call to the soundcloud api

ghost · 2017-01-12T20:19:35Z

@Berndwl I hadn't even thought of trying that. It looks like that's the problem. I was trying it on servers hosted by OVH and Linode, but just now when I used it on my machine it worked just fine.
I suppose there's not much that can be done about it. Thanks though.

royalaid · 2017-01-28T04:46:52Z

It seem to be that Soundcloud followed in the footsteps of Netflix and implemented similar filtering to them and their VPN blocking :(.

Perflyst · 2018-06-24T12:27:16Z

Has anything else happened here? Works again.

I am using the latest GitHub release

$ youtube-dl -v https://soundcloud.com/efkv/hair
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://soundcloud.com/efkv/hair']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.06.19
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 (CPython) - Linux-4.15.0-23-generic-x86_64-with-neon-16.04-xenial
[debug] exe versions: avconv 2.8.14-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, avprobe 2.8.14-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, ffmpeg 2.8.14-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, ffprobe 2.8.14-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[soundcloud] efkv/hair: Resolving id
[soundcloud] efkv/hair: Downloading info JSON
[soundcloud] 258086978: Downloading track url
[soundcloud] 258086978: Downloading m3u8 information
[soundcloud] 258086978: Downloading m3u8 information
[soundcloud] 258086978: Checking hls_opus_64_url video format URL
[soundcloud] 258086978: Checking hls_mp3_128_url video format URL
[soundcloud] 258086978: Checking http_mp3_128_url video format URL
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'https://cf-media.sndcdn.com/hNkwAhEkWoT5.128.mp3?Policy=eyJTdGF0ZW1lbnQiOlt7IlJlc291cmNlIjoiKjovL2NmLW1lZGlhLnNuZGNkbi5jb20vaE5rd0FoRWtXb1Q1LjEyOC5tcDMiLCJDb25kaXRpb24iOnsiRGF0ZUxlc3NUaGFuIjp7IkFXUzpFcG9jaFRpbWUiOjE1Mjk4NDM0NTd9fX1dfQ__&Signature=hiZU45mCIzByOdJ3mQ-mUioGE5khrHhOf4QT6eqGAiPrBpIscfjKD1PZdOIDw-tN4RsVM~cau0ptCYGPU5s3DQpiR2T-A8ttImPEkukTVrdj8Qr1kOARfzLcn8Zk9wzBxun5QD1iEaQr4RKTU6zEp7~Ks0E9LMK3okml548s0fUUKuB5S-cHStVSgDzHXnkXO6~hxstGNcMiKUUCuqzEHCT7bfLFsywxMTo2ToR6~3ZvuLeU1WYeP6ch-gpeC9zHUaVaqctftrXVToU9aAWTyHl0gJ9R~BkX~dPoSJPKirh9uwYZAIgk5gE36Hwz6g1HS8efrauf03wp9wqsF6ryiw__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJAGZ7VMH2PFPW6UQ'
[download] Destination: Hair in the Drain (dl in description)-258086978.mp3
[download]  45.2% of 3.69MiB at 259.68KiB/s ETA 00:07^C
ERROR: Interrupted by user

akx · 2018-10-13T13:08:51Z

This can also occur if the media is not available in the your IP address's country.

yan12125 added cant-reproduce clarification-needed labels Jan 4, 2017

yan12125 removed the clarification-needed label Jan 5, 2017

yan12125 added the bug label Jan 5, 2017

rphair mentioned this issue Aug 29, 2017

Soundcloud page ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata #14058

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Soundcloud results in 403 error #11598

Soundcloud results in 403 error #11598

ghost commented Jan 4, 2017 •

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SwadicalRag commented Jan 4, 2017 •

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Soundcloud results in 403 error #11598

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ghost commented Jan 4, 2017 • edited by ghost

Make sure you are using the latest version: run youtube-dl --version and ensure your version is 2017.01.02. If it's not read this FAQ entry and update. Issues with outdated version will be rejected.

Before submitting an issue make sure you have:

What is the purpose of your issue?

SwadicalRag commented Jan 4, 2017 • edited

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ghost commented Jan 4, 2017 •

edited by ghost

Make sure you are using the latest version: run `youtube-dl --version` and ensure your version is 2017.01.02. If it's not read this FAQ entry and update. Issues with outdated version will be rejected.

SwadicalRag commented Jan 4, 2017 •

edited