[Twitch.tv VOD] Error 403

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$ youtube-dl -v -F https://www.twitch.tv/videos/162508229
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'-F', u'https://www.twitch.tv/videos/162508229']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.07.23
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Linux-4.4.0-83-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-14.04-trusty
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg git-2016-02-15-295de3e, ffprobe git-2016-02-15-295de3e
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[twitch:vod] 162508229: Downloading vod info JSON
[twitch:vod] 162508229: Downloading vod access token
[twitch:vod] 162508229: Downloading m3u8 information
ERROR: Failed to download m3u8 information: HTTP Error 403: 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 502, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2166, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 410, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 523, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 448, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 531, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

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Description oftryiour issue, suggested solution and other information

Trying to download VOD files from twitch which has worked previously, it failed with 2017.07.15 tried upgrading the client to 2017.7.23 same error, tried two different isps just to see if it was an ip based block, and due to another issue tried with and without https/http in the beginning of the url

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[witmore1]

you are right.. my cookies.txt expired and when I switched shells to use one on a different isp I didnt pass the cookies.txt or username command to the program..