issue vrtnu.be

[janvankerckhoven]

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• I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2018.08.22

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

What is the purpose of your issue?

• Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)
• Site support request (request for adding support for a new site)
• Feature request (request for a new functionality)
• Question
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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 ```):

[MacBook-Pro-van-Jan-2:~ Jan$ youtube-dl -u janvankerckhoven@gmail.com -p vrtnu63 https://www.vrt.be/vrtnu/a-z/4-x-7/2017/4-x-7-s2017a14.ch.43c35602-e554-4c27-a694-f327d05635f1/ --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-u', 'PRIVATE', '-p', 'PRIVATE', 'https://www.vrt.be/vrtnu/a-z/4-x-7/2017/4-x-7-s2017a14.ch.43c35602-e554-4c27-a694-f327d05635f1/', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.08.22
[debug] Python version 3.6.4 (CPython) - Darwin-13.4.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4.2, ffprobe 3.4.2
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[VrtNU] Logging in
[VrtNU] Requesting a token
[VrtNU] 4-x-7-s2017a14.ch.43c35602-e554-4c27-a694-f327d05635f1: Downloading webpage
[VrtNU] 4-x-7-s2017a14.ch.43c35602-e554-4c27-a694-f327d05635f1: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request (caused by <HTTPError 400: 'Bad Request'>); 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 "/Library/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 "/Library/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 "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 532, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 642, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 570, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 504, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/Library/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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cannot download some content on vrtnu.be

[janvankerckhoven]

tried again and it works now. I think the URL was not right.