Error with Http/Can't use cookies for CrunchyRoll

[Amuyea]

• I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2017.03.02

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$ youtube-dl -u acc -p acc --verbose "http://www.crunchyroll.com/masamune-kuns-revenge" --playlist-start 1 -skip-download -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-u', u'PRIVATE', u'-p', u'PRIVATE', u'--verbose', u'http://www.crunchyroll.com/masamune-kuns-revenge', u'--playlist-start', u'1', u'-skip-download', u'-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.03.02
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 - Darwin-15.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[crunchyroll:playlist] Downloading login page
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 503: Service Temporarily Unavailable (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 "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 496, in _request_webpage
return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2093, in urlopen
return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.12_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 435, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.12_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 548, in http_response
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.12_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 473, in error
return self._call_chain(*args)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.12_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 407, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.12_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 556, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

$ youtube-dl --cookies /Users/xxxx/cookies.txt -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--cookies', u'/Users/xxxx/cookies.txt', u'-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8

[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.03.02
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 - Darwin-15.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
Usage: youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]

youtube-dl: error: You must provide at least one URL.
Type youtube-dl --help to see a list of all options.

The -U said "youtube-dl is up-to-date (2017.03.02)"

Please help me, thanks.

[dstftw]

Duplicate of #11572.

[Amuyea]

python3 $(which youtube-dl) --cookies cookies.txt --user-agent "my user agent" --no-check-certificate [--other options] [link]

Fixed the problem. (The thread were too long and confusing)