[crunchyroll] premium account does not work

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youtube-dl is up-to-date (2018.10.05)

youtube-dl -v -f "best[height=720]" -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" --all-subs --sub-format best -u mypremiumaccount -p mypassword https://www.crunchyroll.com/dragon-ball-super/episode-1-the-peace-reward-who-will-get-the-100-million-zeni-723163
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '-f', 'best[height=720]', '-o', '%(title)s.%(e
xt)s', '--all-subs', '--sub-format', 'best', '-u', 'PRIVATE', '-p', 'PRIVATE', '
https://www.crunchyroll.com/dragon-ball-super/episode-1-the-peace-reward-who-wil
l-get-the-100-million-zeni-723163']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.10.05
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-8.1-6.3.9600
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.0.2, ffprobe 4.0.2
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[crunchyroll] Logging in
[crunchyroll] 723163: Downloading webpage
ERROR: crunchyroll returned error: Nota: Este vídeo requer uma <a href="/freetri
al?src=geo_sm">Assinatura Premium</a> para ser assistido em sua região.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp5xdqinp2\bu
ild\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 792, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp5xdqinp2\bu
ild\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 507, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp5xdqinp2\bu
ild\youtube_dl\extractor\crunchyroll.py", line 438, in _real_extract
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: crunchyroll returned error: Nota: Este vídeo re
quer uma <a href="/freetrial?src=geo_sm">Assinatura Premium</a> para ser assisti
do em sua região.

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

I get this error when trying to download crunchyroll premium videos. My Crunchyroll account is Premium, I can only share my account with admin for testing purposes

[baconwaifu]

Crunchyroll put their login page behind cloudflare's anti-bot filter. A workaround is to visit the site using a regular browser, and then dump the cloudflare ID token into a cookies.txt file to use with youtube-dl (I used to have a little stub script to somewhat automate it with firefox, I'll have to look for it again) Note that you also have to change youtube-dl's user agent to match that of the browser you used to pass the check.

EDIT: Here's the script. copy the 'cookies.sqlite' from firefox into the same directory as the script, and it produces a cookies.txt in the same directory.

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import sqlite3
import http.cookiejar

def get_cookies(cj, ff_cookies):
    con = sqlite3.connect(ff_cookies)
    cur = con.cursor()
    cur.execute("SELECT host, path, isSecure, expiry, name, value FROM moz_cookies WHERE baseDomain=?", ('crunchyroll.com',))                                                                                     
    for item in cur.fetchall():
        c = http.cookiejar.Cookie(0, item[4], item[5],
            None, False,
            item[0], item[0].startswith('.'), item[0].startswith('.'),
            item[1], False,
            item[2],
            item[3], item[3]=="",
            None, None, {})
        print(c)
        cj.set_cookie(c)

cj = http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar()
get_cookies(cj, "cookies.sqlite")
cj.save("cookies.txt")

Then run youtube-dl like so, followed by the other options you use:
youtube-dl --user-agent [UA of browser] --cookies cookies.txt

[Dabverse]

thank you so much

[nascalsn]

Crunchyroll put their login page behind cloudflare's anti-bot filter. A workaround is to visit the site using a regular browser, and then dump the cloudflare ID token into a cookies.txt file to use with youtube-dl (I used to have a little stub script to somewhat automate it with firefox, I'll have to look for it again) Note that you also have to change youtube-dl's user agent to match that of the browser you used to pass the check.

EDIT: Here's the script. copy the 'cookies.sqlite' from firefox into the same directory as the script, and it produces a cookies.txt in the same directory.

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import sqlite3
import http.cookiejar

def get_cookies(cj, ff_cookies):
    con = sqlite3.connect(ff_cookies)
    cur = con.cursor()
    cur.execute("SELECT host, path, isSecure, expiry, name, value FROM moz_cookies WHERE baseDomain=?", ('crunchyroll.com',))                                                                                     
    for item in cur.fetchall():
        c = http.cookiejar.Cookie(0, item[4], item[5],
            None, False,
            item[0], item[0].startswith('.'), item[0].startswith('.'),
            item[1], False,
            item[2],
            item[3], item[3]=="",
            None, None, {})
        print(c)
        cj.set_cookie(c)

cj = http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar()
get_cookies(cj, "cookies.sqlite")
cj.save("cookies.txt")

Then run youtube-dl like so, followed by the other options you use:
youtube-dl --user-agent [UA of browser] --cookies cookies.txt

It did not work for me. Any idea?

[Dabverse]

Crunchyroll put their login page behind cloudflare's anti-bot filter. A workaround is to visit the site using a regular browser, and then dump the cloudflare ID token into a cookies.txt file to use with youtube-dl (I used to have a little stub script to somewhat automate it with firefox, I'll have to look for it again) Note that you also have to change youtube-dl's user agent to match that of the browser you used to pass the check.
EDIT: Here's the script. copy the 'cookies.sqlite' from firefox into the same directory as the script, and it produces a cookies.txt in the same directory.

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import sqlite3
import http.cookiejar

def get_cookies(cj, ff_cookies):
    con = sqlite3.connect(ff_cookies)
    cur = con.cursor()
    cur.execute("SELECT host, path, isSecure, expiry, name, value FROM moz_cookies WHERE baseDomain=?", ('crunchyroll.com',))                                                                                     
    for item in cur.fetchall():
        c = http.cookiejar.Cookie(0, item[4], item[5],
            None, False,
            item[0], item[0].startswith('.'), item[0].startswith('.'),
            item[1], False,
            item[2],
            item[3], item[3]=="",
            None, None, {})
        print(c)
        cj.set_cookie(c)

cj = http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar()
get_cookies(cj, "cookies.sqlite")
cj.save("cookies.txt")

Then run youtube-dl like so, followed by the other options you use:
youtube-dl --user-agent [UA of browser] --cookies cookies.txt

It did not work for me. Any idea?

tutorial for Windows (my windows is 8.1)
01 - install Firefox: https://www.mozilla.org/pt-BR/firefox/new/
02 - install Python 3: https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.0/python-3.7.0.exe
03 - create a folder on the desktop
04 - in this folder create a text file (notepad)
05 - copy and paste script of baconwaifu in text file, save the file with end .py
06 - in Firefox press "Ctrl + Shift + Del", select everything and clean
07 - log in crunchyroll with Firefox: https://www.crunchyroll.com/login
08 - get your user agent: https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/what-is-my-user-agent
example: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/69.0.3497.100 Safari/537.36

09 - close Firefox
10 - press "WinKey + R" and type it: %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
11 - find and copy the file cookies.sqlite to folder created in desktop
12 - run the script.py and copy the generated file "cookies.txt" to youtube-dl folder
13 - run youtube-dl with --user-agent [UA of browser] --cookies cookies.txt
example:
for download in 720p and all subs
youtube-dl -i -c --cookies cookies.txt --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0" -f "best[height=720]" --all-subs --sub-format best https://www.crunchyroll.com/dragon-ball-super/episode-131-the-miraculous-conclusion-farewell-goku-until-we-meet-again-760351

[nascalsn]

Crunchyroll put their login page behind cloudflare's anti-bot filter. A workaround is to visit the site using a regular browser, and then dump the cloudflare ID token into a cookies.txt file to use with youtube-dl (I used to have a little stub script to somewhat automate it with firefox, I'll have to look for it again) Note that you also have to change youtube-dl's user agent to match that of the browser you used to pass the check.
EDIT: Here's the script. copy the 'cookies.sqlite' from firefox into the same directory as the script, and it produces a cookies.txt in the same directory.

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import sqlite3
import http.cookiejar

def get_cookies(cj, ff_cookies):
    con = sqlite3.connect(ff_cookies)
    cur = con.cursor()
    cur.execute("SELECT host, path, isSecure, expiry, name, value FROM moz_cookies WHERE baseDomain=?", ('crunchyroll.com',))                                                                                     
    for item in cur.fetchall():
        c = http.cookiejar.Cookie(0, item[4], item[5],
            None, False,
            item[0], item[0].startswith('.'), item[0].startswith('.'),
            item[1], False,
            item[2],
            item[3], item[3]=="",
            None, None, {})
        print(c)
        cj.set_cookie(c)

cj = http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar()
get_cookies(cj, "cookies.sqlite")
cj.save("cookies.txt")

Then run youtube-dl like so, followed by the other options you use:
youtube-dl --user-agent [UA of browser] --cookies cookies.txt

It did not work for me. Any idea?

tutorial for Windows (my windows is 8.1)
01 - install Firefox: https://www.mozilla.org/pt-BR/firefox/new/
02 - install Python 3: https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.0/python-3.7.0.exe
03 - create a folder on the desktop
04 - in this folder create a text file (notepad)
05 - copy and paste script of baconwaifu in text file, save the file with end .py
06 - in Firefox press "Ctrl + Shift + Del", select everything and clean
07 - log in crunchyroll with Firefox: https://www.crunchyroll.com/login
08 - get your user agent: https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/what-is-my-user-agent
example: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/69.0.3497.100 Safari/537.36

09 - close Firefox
10 - press "WinKey + R" and type it: %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
11 - find and copy the file cookies.sqlite to folder created in desktop
12 - run the script.py and copy the generated file "cookies.txt" to youtube-dl folder
13 - run youtube-dl with --user-agent [UA of browser] --cookies cookies.txt
example:
for download in 720p and all subs
youtube-dl -i -c --cookies cookies.txt --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0" -f "best[height=720]" --all-subs --sub-format best https://www.crunchyroll.com/dragon-ball-super/episode-131-the-miraculous-conclusion-farewell-goku-until-we-meet-again-760351

Thank you. I made the process in Windows 10 and it worked, but in linux (openSUSE) my main system only worked once.

[DuBistKomisch]

Thanks guy, this workaround worked for me too on Arch Linux.