No longer downloading for abc.go.com vids requiring auth

[ravonel]

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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: ['-v', 'https://content-ausc1.uplynk.com/eef6f2c679c24712baa8b578cb48b3bb/j.m3u8?exp=1506817975']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.09.24
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-87353-g183fd30, ffprobe N-87353-g183fd30, phantomjs 2.1.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] j: Requesting header
[generic] j: Downloading m3u8 information
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://content-ausc1.uplynk.com/eef6f2c679c24712baa8b578cb48b3bb/j.m3u8?exp=1506817975'
[download] Destination: j-j.mp4
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffmpeg -y -loglevel verbose -headers "Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20150101 Firefox/47.0 (Chrome)
" -i "https://content-ausc1.uplynk.com/eef6f2c679c24712baa8b578cb48b3bb/j.m3u8?exp=1506817975" -c copy -f mp4 "-bsf:a" aac_adtstoasc "file:j-j.mp4.part"
ffmpeg version N-87353-g183fd30 Copyright (c) 2000-2017 the FFmpeg developers  built with gcc 7.2.0 (GCC)  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-cuda --enable-cuvid --enable-d3d11va --enable-dxva2 --enable-libmfx --enable-nvenc --enable-avisynth --enable-bzlib --enable-fontconfig --enable-frei0r --enable-gnutls --enable-iconv--enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libbs2b --enable-libcaca --enable-libfreetype --enable-libgme --enable-libgsm --enable-libilbc --enable-libmodplug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenh264 --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-librtmp --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxavs --enable-libxvid --enable-libxml2 --enable-libzimg --enable-lzma --enable-zlib
  libavutil      55. 76.100 / 55. 76.100
  libavcodec     57.106.101 / 57.106.101
  libavformat    57. 82.101 / 57. 82.101
  libavdevice    57.  8.101 / 57.  8.101
  libavfilter     6.105.100 /  6.105.100
  libswscale      4.  7.103 /  4.  7.103
  libswresample   2.  8.100 /  2.  8.100
  libpostproc    54.  6.100 / 54.  6.100
[tls @ 000000000072bec0] Server closed the connection
[hls,applehttp @ 00000000007284c0] HLS request for url 'https://stgec-ausc.uplynk.com/80C078/ausc/slices/eef/d874124ecca24c88a3c9575e78686acf/eef6f2c679c24712baa8b578cb48b3bb/J00000000.ts?x=0&si=0', offset 0, playlist 0
[hls,applehttp @ 00000000007284c0] Opening 'https://content-ausc1.uplynk.com/check2?b=eef6f2c679c24712baa8b578cb48b3bb&v=eef6f2c679c24712baa8b578cb48b3bb&r=j' for reading
[tls @ 0000000003885a20] Server closed the connection
[https @ 000000000072cfa0] HTTP error 403 Forbidden
Unable to open key file https://content-ausc1.uplynk.com/check2?b=eef6f2c679c24712baa8b578cb48b3bb&v=eef6f2c679c24712baa8b578cb48b3bb&r=j
[hls,applehttp @ 00000000007284c0] Opening 'crypto+https://stgec-ausc.uplynk.com/80C078/ausc/slices/eef/d874124ecca24c88a3c9575e78686acf/eef6f2c679c24712baa8b578cb48b3bb/J00000000.ts?x=0&si=0' for reading
[hls,applehttp @ 00000000007284c0] Error when loading first segment 'https://stgec-ausc.uplynk.com/80C078/ausc/slices/eef/d874124ecca24c88a3c9575e78686acf/eef6f2c679c24712baa8b578cb48b3bb/J00000000.ts?x=0&si=0'https://content-ausc1.uplynk.com/eef6f2c679c24712baa8b578cb48b3bb/j.m3u8?exp=1506817975: Invalid data found when processing input


ERROR: ffmpeg exited with code 1
  File "__main__.py", line 19, in <module>
  File "__main__.py", line 19, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp1uop9avr\build\youtube_dl\__init__.py", line 465, in main
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp1uop9avr\build\youtube_dl\__init__.py", line 455, in _real_main
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp1uop9avr\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1968, in download
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp1uop9avr\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 788, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp1uop9avr\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 842, in process_ie_result
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp1uop9avr\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1602, in process_video_result
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp1uop9avr\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1875, in process_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp1uop9avr\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1814, in dl
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp1uop9avr\build\youtube_dl\downloader\common.py", line 361, in download
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp1uop9avr\build\youtube_dl\downloader\external.py", line 57, in real_download
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp1uop9avr\build\youtube_dl\downloader\common.py", line 163, in report_error
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp1uop9avr\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 605, in report_error
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp1uop9avr\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 567, in trouble

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Downloading the "free" videos (the ones not requiring sign-in) has been working fine and continues to work fine. But downloading the ones requiring authentication didn't work even with --ap-mso until I tried the method suggested here, using youtube-dl on the specific resolution's m3u8 I wanted. But in the last few days, that no longer seems to be working.

There are two m3u8 files that load when you to go a video, the playlist with all the different resolutions and the 720p one that abc.go always uses the letter j for. You can see them in a free video too, here:
http://abc.go.com/shows/general-hospital/episode-guide/2017-09/22-friday-sept-22-2017
I've linked to one that will take the longest to expire, five days from now, but if you go to the bottom of the episodes list, you should always be able to find a valid free ep to test.

Until a few days ago, I could use the j.m3u8 link for youtube-dl and it worked like a charm, but it seems they've changed something, and now I get a 403 forbidden error. I've tried downloading using just the playlist URL, but that downloads one segment and then throws the same error.

[ravonel]

The ap-mso method wasn't working before because I was using TWC, I switched to Charter_Direct and it works fine, so it doesn't really matter if the direct playlist link works or not anymore.