Errors with http://www.speedvid.net

[jd1p3k80]

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 $ youtube-dl --verbose http://www.speedvid.net/qylg99af10as 
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://www.speedvid.net/qylg99af10as']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.10.05
[debug] Python version 3.5.2 (CPython) - Linux-4.8.13-1-ARCH-x86_64-with-arch
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.2.2, ffprobe 3.2.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] qylg99af10as: Requesting header
WARNING: Could not send HEAD request to http://www.speedvid.net/qylg99af10as: HTTP Error 503: Service Temporarily Unavailable
[generic] qylg99af10as: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 503: Service Temporarily Unavailable (caused by <HTTPError 503: 'Service Temporarily Unavailable'>); 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 "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 472, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 582, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 510, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 444, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/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

This site now seems to be having trouble:
http://www.speedvid.net

But accessing the urls through the web browser seem to work.

[ecapson]

After some investigation, turns out speedvid.net is using cloudflare ddos protection. I'm currently looking for solution.

[metulburr]

is this still an issue? After updating youtube-dl no longer even attempts to even download. It worked before on that site no problem.

metulburr@ubuntu:~/kids/puppy_dog_pals/s02$ youtube-dl --version
2019.01.10
metulburr@ubuntu:~/kids/puppy_dog_pals/s02$ youtube-dl https://www.speedvid.net/yg3kpv1ffok3
[generic] yg3kpv1ffok3: Requesting header
WARNING: Could not send HEAD request to https://www.speedvid.net/yg3kpv1ffok3: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
[generic] yg3kpv1ffok3: Downloading webpage
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] yg3kpv1ffok3: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.speedvid.net/yg3kpv1ffok3
metulburr@ubuntu:~/kids/puppy_dog_pals/s02$ youtube-dl --verbose https://www.speedvid.net/yg3kpv1ffok3
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'https://www.speedvid.net/yg3kpv1ffok3']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.01.10
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 (CPython) - Linux-4.4.0-141-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-16.04-xenial
[debug] exe versions: avconv 3.4.1-1, avprobe 3.4.1-1, ffmpeg 3.4.1-1, ffprobe 3.4.1-1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] yg3kpv1ffok3: Requesting header
WARNING: Could not send HEAD request to https://www.speedvid.net/yg3kpv1ffok3: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
[generic] yg3kpv1ffok3: Downloading webpage
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] yg3kpv1ffok3: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.speedvid.net/yg3kpv1ffok3
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2337, in _real_extract
    doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2542, in compat_etree_fromstring
    doc = _XML(text, parser=etree.XMLParser(target=_TreeBuilder(element_factory=_element_factory)))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2531, in _XML
    parser.feed(text)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1653, in feed
    self._raiseerror(v)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1517, in _raiseerror
    raise err
ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 21, column 19
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 793, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 508, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 3320, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://www.speedvid.net/yg3kpv1ffok3

[jd1p3k80]

Yes still the same issue for me.