HTTP Error 404 on specific YouTube videos

[SilasLaspada]

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youtube-dl -v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvccY97SZX0
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvccY97SZX0']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.09.10
[debug] Python version 3.6.5 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.17134-SP0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-91801-gad9b4ecc26, ffprobe N-91801-gad9b4ecc26
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] ZvccY97SZX0: Downloading webpage
[youtube] ZvccY97SZX0: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] {22} signature length 41.40, html5 player vflHei2l6
[youtube] {43} signature length 41.40, html5 player vflHei2l6
[youtube] {18} signature length 41.40, html5 player vflHei2l6
[youtube] {36} signature length 41.40, html5 player vflHei2l6
[youtube] {17} signature length 41.40, html5 player vflHei2l6
[youtube] ZvccY97SZX0: Downloading MPD manifest
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://r5---sn-qxo7rn7l.googlevideo.com/videoplayback/id/66f71c63ded2657d/itag/135/source/yt_otf/requiressl/yes/mv/m/mm/31,29/ms/au,rdu/mn/sn-qxo7rn7l,sn-qxoedn7z/pl/23/initcwndbps/1338750/ei/uE6XW4COL4O2kwbUpYawAg/ratebypass/yes/mime/video%2Fmp4/otfp/1/otf/1/lmt/1518827742245318/fvip/5/mt/1536642698/disable_polymer/true/ip/216.170.138.203/ipbits/0/expire/1536664344/sparams/ip,ipbits,expire,id,itag,source,requiressl,mv,mm,ms,mn,pl,initcwndbps,ei,ratebypass,mime,otfp,otf,lmt/signature/209AB837CDAE64A7380E86BC929387FC8751FCC7.90EDED7DF057272194F110B6268CF13385D1AA27/key/dg_yt0/'
[dashsegments] Total fragments: 19
[download] Destination: Trumpet off-ZvccY97SZX0.f135.mp4
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 404: Not Found. Retrying fragment 1 (attempt 1 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 404: Not Found. Retrying fragment 1 (attempt 2 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 404: Not Found. Retrying fragment 1 (attempt 3 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 404: Not Found. Retrying fragment 1 (attempt 4 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 404: Not Found. Retrying fragment 1 (attempt 5 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 404: Not Found. Retrying fragment 1 (attempt 6 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 404: Not Found. Retrying fragment 1 (attempt 7 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 404: Not Found. Retrying fragment 1 (attempt 8 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 404: Not Found. Retrying fragment 1 (attempt 9 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 404: Not Found. Retrying fragment 1 (attempt 10 of 10)...
ERROR: giving up after 10 fragment retries
  File "c:\python\lib\runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", mod_spec)
  File "c:\python\lib\runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "C:\Python\Scripts\youtube-dl.exe\__main__.py", line 9, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\__init__.py", line 472, in main
    _real_main(argv)
  File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\__init__.py", line 462, in _real_main
    retcode = ydl.download(all_urls)
  File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2001, in download
    url, force_generic_extractor=self.params.get('force_generic_extractor', False))
  File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 803, in extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 857, in process_ie_result
    return self.process_video_result(ie_result, download=download)
  File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1635, in process_video_result
    self.process_info(new_info)
  File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1902, in process_info
    partial_success = dl(fname, new_info)
  File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1847, in dl
    return fd.download(name, info)
  File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\downloader\common.py", line 364, in download
    return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
  File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\downloader\dash.py", line 75, in real_download
    self.report_error('giving up after %s fragment retries' % fragment_retries)
  File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\downloader\common.py", line 165, in report_error
    self.ydl.report_error(*args, **kargs)
  File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 620, in report_error
    self.trouble(error_message, tb)
  File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 582, in trouble
    tb_data = traceback.format_list(traceback.extract_stack())
...
<end of log>

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Downloading a few specific videos from YouTube results in "Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 404: Not Found." on fragment 1. It happens consistently for the same few videos, I have verified that it plays fine in browser and that other videos download correctly. Here is one of the videos that isn't downloading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvccY97SZX0

[dstftw]

Server side youtube issue. Select another format.

[LukeMadhanga]

Server side youtube issue. Select another format.

Excuse my ignorance, but what do you mean by this?

I am encountering this issue on a whole load of YouTube videos so I would like to know what the solution is

[prabak]

Server side youtube issue. Select another format.

Excuse my ignorance, but what do you mean by this?

I am encountering this issue on a whole load of YouTube videos so I would like to know what the solution is

youtube-dl -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvccY97SZX0 that should lists available format. Then try the following:
youtube-dl -f FORMAT_CODE_FROM_ABOVE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvccY97SZX0
you can also do youtube-dl -f best https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvccY97SZX0

hope that helps. try the various format code and see which one works.

[LukeMadhanga]

@prabak Sweet, that works! Thank you

[Rak604]

I am facing the problem on my website youtube to mp3, specific videos just don't download, may be I have to update new version in 2020.