[9now.com.au] Errno 61 Connection refused

[Chuppa]

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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 ```):

youtube-dl https://www.9now.com.au/amazing-south-coast/2017/episode-1 -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: [u'-o', u'~/####/%(title)s %(height)sP-WEBDL.%(ext)s', u'--netrc', u'--embed-subs', u'--embed-thumbnail', u'--add-metadata', u'-ciw']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'https://www.9now.com.au/amazing-south-coast/2017/episode-1', u'-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.12.09
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 (CPython) - Darwin-18.2.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.1, ffprobe 4.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Using fake IP 1.130.53.90 (AU) as X-Forwarded-For.
[9now.com.au] episode-1: Downloading webpage
[debug] Using fake IP 1.155.94.109 (AU) as X-Forwarded-For.
[brightcove:new] 5854598598001: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 61] Connection refused> (caused by URLError(error(61, 'Connection refused'),))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 605, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2212, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 431, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 449, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 984, in http_open
    req)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1197, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)

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If the purpose of this issue is a site support request please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by yours):

• Single video:
  https://www.9now.com.au/amazing-south-coast/2017/episode-1
• Single video:
  https://www.9now.com.au/paramedics/season-1/episode-10

Note that youtube-dl does not support sites dedicated to copyright infringement. In order for site support request to be accepted all provided example URLs should not violate any copyrights.

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

9Now downloader is failing on webpage fetch. Have tried using different accounts, but they fail too. Was thinking it could be the 'fake ip' used.

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