How can a Twitter video be "not found" if it is actually there? (seems to have fixed itself)

[FlaminHat]

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[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1043305127250194432', '-o', 'Trump rally in Missouri.mp4', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.09.18
[debug] Python version 3.5.2 (CPython) - Darwin-17.7.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.3.1, ffprobe 3.3.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[twitter] 1043305127250194432: Downloading webpage
[twitter:card] 1043305127250194432: Downloading webpage
[twitter:card] 1043305127250194432: Downloading guest token
[twitter:card] 1043305127250194432: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 404: Not Found (caused by <HTTPError 404: 'Not Found'>); 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 "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 604, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2211, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/Users/imac/miniconda3/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 472, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/Users/imac/miniconda3/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 582, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/Users/imac/miniconda3/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 510, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/Users/imac/miniconda3/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 444, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/Users/imac/miniconda3/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 590, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

YouTube-dl reports that, as per the verbose bug report I am submitting here, the video has a "404 error" despite the fact that I have opened the Twitter URL in a browser and the video there works fine

[FlaminHat]

The issue seems to have just now gone away by itself now.

[Kikobeats]

I'm experimenting this kind of errors

looks something that some times happens but not sure WHY

[FlaminHat]

Hi Kikobeats,

I have since found that while it wasn't very obvious, the video was from an external source and not Twitter, and clicking through and getting the URL of the external source works fine.

Cheers