OpenSSL 1.0.2l 25 May 2017 --> ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [SSL: SSLV3_ALERT_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE] sslv3 alert handshake failure (_ssl.c:590)> (caused by URLError(SSLError(1, u'[SSL: SSLV3_ALERT_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE] sslv3 alert handshake failure (_ssl.c:590)'),))

[ghost]

problem with blog anonymous.com

thanks

> python2 -c 'import ssl; print(ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION)'
OpenSSL 1.0.2l  25 May 2017

> youtube-dl -v --no-check-certificate https://anonymous.com.pt/cnn-journalist-amber-lyon-admits-governments-pay-us-to-fake-news-video/
[debug] System config: [u'--recode-video=mp4', u'-f', u'bestvideo+bestaudio/best']
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'--no-check-certificate', u'https://anonymous.com.pt/cnn-journalist-amber-lyon-admits-governments-pay-us-to-fake-news-video/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.07.23
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Darwin-16.7.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.3.3, ffprobe 3.3.3, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {'http': 'http://127.0.0.1:8118', 'https': 'http://127.0.0.1:8118'}
[generic] cnn-journalist-amber-lyon-admits-governments-pay-us-to-fake-news-video: Requesting header
WARNING: Could not send HEAD request to https://anonymous.com.pt/cnn-journalist-amber-lyon-admits-governments-pay-us-to-fake-news-video/: <urlopen error [SSL: SSLV3_ALERT_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE] sslv3 alert handshake failure (_ssl.c:590)>
[generic] cnn-journalist-amber-lyon-admits-governments-pay-us-to-fake-news-video: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [SSL: SSLV3_ALERT_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE] sslv3 alert handshake failure (_ssl.c:590)> (caused by URLError(SSLError(1, u'[SSL: SSLV3_ALERT_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE] sslv3 alert handshake failure (_ssl.c:590)'),))
  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 "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 431, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 449, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 1086, in https_open
    req, **kwargs)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1197, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)

[dstftw]

Update python.

[user3587412]

Thank you, upgrading python from 2.7.10 to 3.6.4 solved this problem.