Crunchyroll Error 500

[kenichi512]

Hi.

1 hour ago I was downloading videos normally, but later this appeared when I started a new download.

[Crunchyroll] Downloading login page
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error (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 cal
l youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

And also

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['http://www.crunchyroll.com/saint-seiya/episode-31-t
he-line-between-life-and-death-660159', '-u', 'PRIVATE', '-p', 'PRIVATE', '--use
r-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:51.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5
1.0', '--cookies', 'cookies.txt', '--all-subs', '--hls-prefer-native', '--no-par
t', '--no-cache-dir', '-f', 'best[height=480]', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.01.29
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-81489-ga37e6dd, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Crunchyroll] Downloading login page
[Crunchyroll] 660159: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error (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 cal
l youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpw2prp8oz\bu
ild\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 416, in _request_webpage
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpw2prp8oz\bu
ild\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2001, in urlopen
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 470, in open
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 580, in http_response
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 508, in error
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 442, in _call_chain
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 588, in http_error_defau
lt

[Starsam80]

This always happens sometimes, but try again in a hour or so and it will work again. It's also not youtube-dl fault either:

[yan12125]

Duplicate of #11572. See posts there for previous discussions.

[Starsam80]

@yan12125 Actually, not quite. Yes, you get a error 503 when trying to access the login page, but for some reason, crunchyroll also likes to throw 500 errors for any page. The 500 error isn't cloudflares fault. My prediction is when crunchyroll is under load that it tends to throw 500 errors. It's very random and only lasts for about an hour from what I've experienced.

[yan12125]

Oops, I didn't see the second log. The first log fails at the login page, so I thought it's a duplicate.

My prediction is when crunchyroll is under load that it tends to throw 500 errors

That's possible. Anyway that's not youtube-dl's fault.