[npo.nl] Returns 410s when accessing with youtube-dl after (slight) site redesign

[brenthuisman]

Make sure you are using the latest version: run youtube-dl --version and ensure your version is 2017.03.10. If it's not read this FAQ entry and update. Issues with outdated version will be rejected.

• I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2017.03.10

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• At least skimmed through README and most notably FAQ and BUGS sections
• Searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

What is the purpose of your issue?

• Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)
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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 ```):

$ youtube-dl http://www.npo.nl/buitenhof/12-03-2017/VPWON_1265954 -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['http://www.npo.nl/buitenhof/12-03-2017/VPWON_1265954', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.01.18
[debug] Python version 3.5.2 - Linux-4.4.0-66-generic-x86_64-with-neon-16.04-xenial
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, ffprobe 2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[npo] VPWON_1265954: Downloading JSON metadata
[npo] VPWON_1265954: Downloading token
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 410: Gone (caused by <HTTPError 410: 'Gone'>); 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 "/home/brent/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 406, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/home/brent/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2001, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 472, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 582, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 510, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 444, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 590, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)

Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

npo.nl recently updated their player which no longer defaults to a Flash based player but JWplayer. Not sure if it is related, but youtube-dl keeps returning 410 errorcodes, while, apart from the slight website redesign, nothing changed on my end. I suspect they may be scanning for tools like youtube-dl.

[dstftw]

You are using an outdated version of youtube-dl. Read this FAQ entry if you have troubles updating.

[brenthuisman]

Whoops. I see I installed youtube-dl through pip and pip3, and one was outdated. Thanks!