UnavailableVideoError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

[goodevilgenius]

With this command: youtube-dl -v -f 18 -o /dev/null https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Livyqlxvypk

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '-f', '18', '-o', '/dev/null', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Livyqlxvypk']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.09.16
[debug] Python version 2.7.3 - Linux-3.5.0-37-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-12.10-quantal
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] Livyqlxvypk: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] Livyqlxvypk: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] Livyqlxvypk: Extracting video information
[youtube] Livyqlxvypk: Encrypted signatures detected.
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (43.41), itag 46, html5 player vfldJ8xgI
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (43.41), itag 45, html5 player vfldJ8xgI
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (43.41), itag 22, html5 player vfldJ8xgI
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (43.41), itag 44, html5 player vfldJ8xgI
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (43.41), itag 43, html5 player vfldJ8xgI
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (43.41), itag 18, html5 player vfldJ8xgI
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (43.41), itag 5, html5 player vfldJ8xgI
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (43.41), itag 36, html5 player vfldJ8xgI
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (43.41), itag 17, html5 player vfldJ8xgI
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (43.41), itag 137, html5 player vfldJ8xgI
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (43.41), itag 136, html5 player vfldJ8xgI
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (43.41), itag 135, html5 player vfldJ8xgI
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (43.41), itag 134, html5 player vfldJ8xgI
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (43.41), itag 133, html5 player vfldJ8xgI
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (43.41), itag 160, html5 player vfldJ8xgI
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (43.41), itag 139, html5 player vfldJ8xgI
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (43.41), itag 140, html5 player vfldJ8xgI
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (43.41), itag 141, html5 player vfldJ8xgI
ERROR: unable to download video
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 575, in download
    videos = self.extract_info(url)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 340, in extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download=download)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 423, in process_ie_result
    for r in ie_result['entries']
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 370, in process_ie_result
    self.process_info(ie_result)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 552, in process_info
    raise UnavailableVideoError(err)
UnavailableVideoError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

Info:

$ youtube-dl --version
2013.09.16

[phihag]

Thank you for the report. This should be fixed in youtube-dl 2013.09.17. You can update by typing

sudo youtube-dl -U

or

youtube-dl -U

depending on how you installed youtube-dl. A more permanent fix for signature changes is in the works.

[goodevilgenius]

I tried updating with sudo youtube-dl -U and it said:

Updating to version 2013.09.16...
Updated youtube-dl. Restart youtube-dl to use the new version.

And, not surprisingly, I got the same error when trying to download.

[goodevilgenius]

Working now.

Thanks.

[phihag]

Yes, GitHub takes a while to regenerate the version info file.

[phihag]

Yes, GitHub takes a while to regenerate the version info file.