402 - payment required

[Chris1904]

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[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-g', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cxixDgHUYw', u'--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.05.14
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Linux-3.14.32-xxxx-grs-ipv6-64-x86_64-with-centos-7.3.1611-Core
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.6.8, ffprobe 2.6.8
[debug] Proxy map: {}
ERROR: unable to download video info webpage: HTTP Error 402: Payment Required (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 502, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2106, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 437, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 550, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 475, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 558, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

I do understand that this is a way of youtube putting a limit on your account. Oddly, I never really downloaded anything from Youtube but 4-5 times.

Is there any way we around this issue? Is there any way to authenticate with the Youtube API? I did contact their support and have not received a response in a little over a week and that's why I am here.

Any help would be appreciated! :-)

[dstftw]

https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl#i-get-http-error-402-when-trying-to-download-a-video-whats-this