Mediaset Play Italy doesn't work

[ischmidt20]

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• [ x] I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2018.07.10

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• [ x] At least skimmed through the README, most notably the FAQ and BUGS sections
• [ x] Searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones
• [x ] Checked that provided video/audio/playlist URLs (if any) are alive and playable in a browser

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• [ x] Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)
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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:

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 ```):

youtube-dl --add-header "User Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.99 Safari/537.36" -F 'https://vod05t-mediaset-it.akamaized.net/farmunica/2018/07/234794_1649eeaaa4e7d2/dashrcclean/hd_no_mpl_hbbtv.mpd?hdnts=st=1531839224~exp=1531853654~acl=/farmunica/2018/07/234794_1649eeaaa4e7d2/dashrcclean/hd_no_mpl_hbbtv.mpd~hmac=754c7bfe9d4fc9edfa96f8ca5897977e6b40ff7bb5ec46f2270cf2f94b6b4421' -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--add-header', 'User Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.99 Safari/537.36', '-F', 'https://vod05t-mediaset-it.akamaized.net/farmunica/2018/07/234794_1649eeaaa4e7d2/dashrcclean/hd_no_mpl_hbbtv.mpd?hdnts=st=1531839224~exp=1531853654~acl=/farmunica/2018/07/234794_1649eeaaa4e7d2/dashrcclean/hd_no_mpl_hbbtv.mpd~hmac=754c7bfe9d4fc9edfa96f8ca5897977e6b40ff7bb5ec46f2270cf2f94b6b4421', '-v']
[debug] Adding header from command line option User Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.99 Safari/537.36
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.07.10
[debug] Python version 3.6.2 (CPython) - Darwin-17.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.0.1, ffprobe 4.0.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] hd_no_mpl_hbbtv: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] hd_no_mpl_hbbtv: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden (caused by <HTTPError 403: 'Forbidden'>); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.6.2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 599, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.6.2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2211, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.6.2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 532, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.6.2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 642, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.6.2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 570, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.6.2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 504, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.6.2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 650, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
...
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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):

• Direct video link: https://www.mediasetplay.mediaset.it/video/mondialimediaset/mondiali-francia-croazia-partita-intera_F309072001006401
• Example MPD url: https://vod05t-mediaset-it.akamaized.net/farmunica/2018/07/234794_1649eeaaa4e7d2/dashrcclean/hd_no_mpl_hbbtv.mpd?hdnts=st=1531839224~exp=1531853654~acl=/farmunica/2018/07/234794_1649eeaaa4e7d2/dashrcclean/hd_no_mpl_hbbtv.mpd~hmac=754c7bfe9d4fc9edfa96f8ca5897977e6b40ff7bb5ec46f2270cf2f94b6b4421

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

The main issue here is of course the 403 Forbidden error. Normally this is not an error due to youtube-dl, because the link is actually unavailable. However, in this instance, the mpd link downloads both from the browser and from command line with wget, with no additional arguments. Clearly, something went wrong within youtube-dl.

Note that there is no login required to access the video, just an Italian IP address which can be done with a VPN or probably even a proxy.

[ischmidt20]

I mean I don't really think is a duplicate. There are plenty of sites that youtube-dl doesn't have a plugin for, yet using the "manual method" with m3u8/mpd/f4m/etc links still works. This is more of a case where youtube-dl fails to download an mpd link.

[bato3]

@Ike348

1. valid UA syntax is User-Agent: M not User Agent:M
2. you should pass cookies