IMGUR : Unable to download webpage

[RingoTheDog]

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• Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)
• Site support request (request for adding support for a new site)
• Feature request (request for a new functionality)
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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 ```):

C:\Transmogrifier>youtube-dl.py -v "http://imgur.com/vCVKZdA"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'http://imgur.com/vCVKZdA']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.01.28
[debug] Python version 3.5.1 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-71727-g46778ab, ffprobe 3.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Imgur] vCVKZdA: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden (caused by <HTTPError 403: 'Forbidden'>); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you
ype  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 406, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2001, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "C:\Program Files\Python35\lib\urllib\request.py", line 471, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "C:\Program Files\Python35\lib\urllib\request.py", line 581, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "C:\Program Files\Python35\lib\urllib\request.py", line 509, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "C:\Program Files\Python35\lib\urllib\request.py", line 443, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "C:\Program Files\Python35\lib\urllib\request.py", line 589, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)

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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: http://imgur.com/vCVKZdA
• Same video: http://i.imgur.com/vCVKZdA.gifv

Note that youtube-dl does not support sites dedicated to copyright infringement. In order for site support request to be accepted all provided example URLs should not violate any copyrights.

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Thanks as always...
Ringo

[dstftw]

Can you watch it in browser in the first place?

[yan12125]

Closing as no response for a long time. Maybe there was an temporary issue on imgur.com

$ youtube-dl -v "http://imgur.com/vCVKZdA" 
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'http://imgur.com/vCVKZdA']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.02.10
[debug] Git HEAD: e01bfc19c
[debug] Python version 3.6.0 - Linux-4.9.6-1-ARCH-x86_64-with-arch
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.2.2, ffprobe 3.2.2
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Imgur] vCVKZdA: Downloading webpage
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://i.imgur.com/vCVKZdA.mp4'
[download] Destination: One guy beating the commute yesterday - thoughts on lane splitting-vCVKZdA.mp4
[download] 100% of 1.00MiB in 00:03