[bilibili] error 466 in downloading

[kesdoputr]

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Hello,i try to use youtube-dl ver12.31 to download a bilibili video but i get a 403 error

youtube-dl -F http://www.bilibili.com/video/av17843872/
[BiliBili] 17843872: Downloading webpage
[BiliBili] 17843872: Downloading video info page
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden (caused by HT
TPError()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you ar
e using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call yout
ube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

[xiejun199409]

Same here
log: https://ghostbin.com/paste/yjub6

[qian135]

I have the same problem
I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2017.12.31

[azs88]

Hi, I am experiencing the same issue...my youtube-dl is also updated to 2017.12.31 already...anyone can advise what to do with this issue?

[gynt]

Could you try to include --referer and see if that works?
So the command becomes:
youtube-dl -F http://www.bilibili.com/video/av17843872/ --referer http://www.bilibili.com/video/av17843872/

For me, this fixes the issue, see log: https://ghostbin.com/paste/byuk2

[azs88]

@gynt Hi there! Thanks so much for your advice it works for me as well!

[yan12125]

Reoponing - I got 466 errors on some IP addresses. Need further investigation

#15188 (comment)

[po1ng]

thx, it works for me as well!

[hiberabyss]

Still could not work.

[yan12125]

@hiberabyss Did you get 403 or 466 errors?

[hiberabyss]

@yan12125 ,

I got 403 error, following is the error message:

ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden (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.

Thanks!

[yan12125]

Does adding --referer work for you?

[hiberabyss]

Seems worked with --referer:

➜  /tmp youtube-dl -F http://www.bilibili.com/video/av17843872/ --referer http://www.bilibili.com/video/av17843872/
[BiliBili] 17843872: Downloading webpage
[BiliBili] 17843872: Downloading video info page
[info] Available formats for 17843872:
format code  extension  resolution note
0            mp4        unknown
1            mp4        unknown
2            mp4        unknown    1.21GiB (best)

Thanks!

[wenxingxing]

works for me!

[hiberabyss]

Is there any plan to fix this without --referer? IINA currently could not work with bilibili because of this.

Thanks!

[yan12125]

@hiberabyss: It should be already fixed in 2017.01.14. I keep this issue open for 466 errors in rare cases.

[hiberabyss]

@yan12125 ,

After update to the latest version, it works for me. Thanks for your great work!

[kesdoputr]

Still some video have error to get, like this
https://www.bilibili.com/video/av19061431/

Z:\tc>youtube-dl --verbose -F https://www.bilibili.com/video/av19061431/
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: ['--no-check-certificate', '-f', 'mp4']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', '-F', 'https://www.bilibili.com/video/a
v19061431/']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp932, fs mbcs, out cp932, pref cp932
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.01.27
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.3.3, ffprobe 3.3.3
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[BiliBili] 19061431: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract player parameters; 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 c
omplete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpn97fzem4\bu
ild\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 784, in extract_info
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpn97fzem4\bu
ild\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 438, in extract
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpn97fzem4\bu
ild\youtube_dl\extractor\bilibili.py", line 98, in _real_extract
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpn97fzem4\bu
ild\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 794, in _search_regex
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract player parameters; 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.

use --referer have the same result

[gynt]

This has to do with the regex, not the referer. Please open a new issue

[yan12125]

Most likely that's the same issue as #15430

[mpenkov]

I think we can close this bug.

I'm getting youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError on my local version, but that's a different issue, as @yan12125 pointed out. Interestingly, issue #15430 is closed, but the problem still persists. Not sure what's happening there.