[curiositystream / limelight] Download fails with HTTP Error 500

[tomatolicious]

• I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2017.04.03
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• Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)

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$ youtube-dl https://app.curiositystream.com/video/944 --username myusername@gmail.com --password aGoodPassword --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'https://app.curiositystream.com/video/944', u'--username', u'PRIVATE', u'--password', u'PRIVATE', u'--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out None, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.04.03
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Darwin-16.5.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.2.4, ffprobe 3.2.4, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: 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 call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 498, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2100, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 437, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 550, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 475, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 558, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

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Downloading anything from curiositystream.com fails with an error 500. This is the case with both credentials provided or not. I have stepped through the extractor for curiositystream and it seems that it is doing its job fine. The problem seems to be somewhere in the underlying handling on the limelight extractor.

[seyoum]

I get the same error 😕

λ youtube-dl https://app.curiositystream.com/video/1348 --username something@gmail.com --password PaSsWoRd --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['https://app.curiositystream.com/video/1348', '--username', 'PRIVATE', '--password', 'PRIVATE', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.04.09
[debug] Python version 3.6.1 - Windows-10-10.0.14393-SP0
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[curiositystream] Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 422: Unprocessable Entity (caused by <HTTPError 422: 'Unprocessable Entity'>); 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 "c:\program files\python36\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 498, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "c:\program files\python36\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2100, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "c:\program files\python36\lib\urllib\request.py", line 532, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "c:\program files\python36\lib\urllib\request.py", line 642, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "c:\program files\python36\lib\urllib\request.py", line 570, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "c:\program files\python36\lib\urllib\request.py", line 504, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "c:\program files\python36\lib\urllib\request.py", line 650, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)