[niconico] 403 Forbidden

[knight-ryu12]

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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 the -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with (youtube-dl -v <your command line>), copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-u', 'PRIVATE', '-p', 'PRIVATE', '-v', '--user-agen
t', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)
Chrome/59.0.3071.112 Safari/537.36 Vivaldi/1.91.867.48', 'http://www.nicovideo.j
p/watch/sm1151009']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp932, fs mbcs, out cp932, pref cp932
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.07.30.1
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-86537-gae6f6d4, ffprobe N-86537-gae6f6d4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[niconico] Logging in
[niconico] sm1151009: Downloading webpage
[niconico] sm1151009: Downloading video info page
[niconico] sm1151009: Downloading flv info
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'http://smile-cca61.nicovideo.jp/smile?v=1151009.
96367'
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpfdfxmx88\bu
ild\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1863, in process_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpfdfxmx88\bu
ild\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1805, in dl
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpfdfxmx88\bu
ild\youtube_dl\downloader\common.py", line 361, in download
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpfdfxmx88\bu
ild\youtube_dl\downloader\http.py", line 61, in real_download
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpfdfxmx88\bu
ild\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2166, in urlopen
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 470, in open
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 580, in http_response
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 508, in error
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 442, in _call_chain
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 588, in http_error_defau
lt
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
...
<end of log>

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If the purpose of this issue is a site support request please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by yours):

• Single video: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1151009

Note that youtube-dl does not support sites dedicated to copyright infringement. In order for site support request to be accepted all provided example URLs should not violate any copyrights.

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[knight-ryu12]

w/o UserAgent, it'll no effect as well.

[yan12125]

Thanks for the report. This video is HTML5-only, which will be supported in the next version.

[knight-ryu12]

I think niconico will switch to html5 completely. for "new" uploaded one. We surely need some workaround 2017/08/07 午前0:09 "Yen Chi Hsuan" <notifications@github.com>:

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Closed #13806 <#13806> via 463e721 <463e721> . — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#13806 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ALa_E1MWr996W9uKcPsKkONVA9oQzK2Mks5sVdcagaJpZM4OqkRM> .

[yan12125]

As I've said, support for HTML5 videos will be included in the next youtube-dl version. You may want to check out developer instructions for how to run an unstable version.

[knight-ryu12]

yay for that then :P 2017/08/07 午前1:29 "Yen Chi Hsuan" <notifications@github.com>:

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As I've said, support for HTML5 videos will be included in the next youtube-dl version. You may want to check out developer instructions <https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl#developer-instructions> for how to run an unstable version. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#13806 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ALa_E6_dIpEJlqwWmn3fvaj8TeRgUKBYks5sVenrgaJpZM4OqkRM> .