HTTP Error 500 at investigationdiscovery.com

[seabeast51]

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C:\Users\Desktop\youtube-dl>youtube-dl --verbose https://www.investigati
ondiscovery.com/tv-shows/who-killed-jane-doe/full-episodes/her-whispering-bones
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'https://www.investigationdiscovery.com
/tv-shows/who-killed-jane-doe/full-episodes/her-whispering-bones']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.02.08
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Discovery] her-whispering-bones: Downloading webpage
[Discovery] her-whispering-bones: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error (
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.
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpn4uo9muj\bu
ild\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 519, in _request_webpage
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpn4uo9muj\bu
ild\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2199, 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
...
<end of log>

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• Single video: https://www.investigationdiscovery.com
  /tv-shows/who-killed-jane-doe/full-episodes/her-whispering-bones

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The website does not require a login for this video, but does for others. Searching on the supported site list , Discovery is on there, but not Investigation Discovery.

[dstftw]

[seabeast51]

I am not seeing the same error as you. I'm not sure how you got that message. I have tried different computers and different browsers that are not logged in to any subscription services. Can you tell me how to replicate? Possibly an ISP thing?