[cbc.ca] Error 402: Payment Required

[darthhaggis]

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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:

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: ['--all-subs', '--sub-format', 'srt', '--convert-subs', 'srt', '--embed-subs', '--merge-output-format', 'mkv', '--recode-video', 'mkv', '--format', 'bestvideo[width<=?1280]+bestaudio/best', '-o', 'D:/Video/Downloads/%(series)s/%(series)s - %(season_number)sx%(episode_number)02d - %(title)s [%(height)s].%(ext)s', '--prefer-ffmpeg', '--ffmpeg-location', 'D:\\Video\\FFMPEG\\bin', '--download-archive', 'D:/Video/Downloads/Archive.txt']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['https://watch.cbc.ca/media/heartland/season-9/episode-7/38e815a-0094c1b411a', '--username', 'PRIVATE', '-v']
Type account password and press [Return]:
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.06.18
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-8.1-6.3.9600
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-90771-g5079e96bcc, ffprobe N-90771-g5079e96bcc
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Using fake IP 99.239.129.198 (CA) as X-Forwarded-For.
[cbc.ca:watch] 38e815a-0094c1b411a: Downloading XML
[cbc.ca:watch] 38e815a-0094c1b411a: Downloading XML
[download] Downloading playlist: Fearless
[cbc.ca:watch] playlist Fearless: Collected 1 video ids (downloading 1 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 1
[debug] Using fake IP 99.234.54.159 (CA) as X-Forwarded-For.
[cbc.ca:watch:video] c78f815d-d3ed-4502-871f-da9347e0318a: Downloading XML
ERROR: Unable to download XML: HTTP Error 402: Payment Required (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\tmpu1zifx01\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 579, in _request_webpage
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpu1zifx01\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2211, 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_default

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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: https://watch.cbc.ca/media/heartland/season-9/episode-7/38e815a-0094c1b411a

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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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Unlike Error 402 for Youtube which typically signifies too many requests, a restricted IP, or a CAPTCHA request, in this situation some of the videos on the site (mainly those not currently being broadcast but instead from a previous season, etc) require a free membership in order to watch them. In this situation, "Error 402: Payment Required" actually seems appropriate in that you need to be logged in to access select files. After trying multiple different options and variables, it appears that the youtube-dl interface is either not passing the login info to the page, or when logged in within the browser, the login info is not being save as a cookie that can be utilised by youtube-dl. Files that don't require logging in to view are easily downloaded.
Is there some sort of variable/option that I am missing that would circumvent the issue, or is it just not passing the credentials on to the site at the appropriate time?

[mshiels]

Having looked at the cbc.py code - it does not user/understand a userid/password. I may be trying to update that code since I too download alot from cbc. I pretty well understand the login process, just gotta find time to code/test it.

[Triforcecwp]

This is a feature i would love to see added to youtube-dl @mshiels . unfortunately i do not posses the skill required to do this myself, i guess its something I'm going to have to work towards in the future.

[meunierd]

The token dance is facilitated partly by loginradius

Before submitting a username and password, you need an api key that I haven't been able to locate yet, but once the browser has negotiated the tokens I've been able to inject them into cbc.py and successfully downloaded login gated videos.

[meunierd]

@remitamine can I bug you to take a look at this PR ☝️ ?

[Sparktank]

I'm also looking how this can be achieved. I'd love to archive Heartland for my mother, with subtitle support. Even willing to pay the $5 CDN/mo for the subscription service.
Looked through all sort of tickets. Can't understand any of them.
I live in Canada, so GEO will pick up I'm in Canada.
I also did sign up for the trial. After a month, it will get charged for the $5 CDN for CBC Premium.
Using -u and -p didn't help.

[meunierd]

On this branch? Did you clear cache?

[makeworld-the-better-one]

@Sparktank check out #19160. It hasn't been merged yet, but it has some new code that will download from the CBC for free. Idk about subtitles though.

[meunierd]

I can confirm that subtitles don't work.

[Sparktank]

On this branch? Did you clear cache?

i've used --rm-cache-dir which doesn't work. Also tried --no-cache-dir which also doesn't work.

I've seen that ticket but don't know where to go from there. I don't use Python. When I do, it's the latest build available in 3.x.

Is that a branch I will need to compile myself?