Unable to download playable video from WAYBACK (video on an archived YouTube page)

[frank-e]

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• I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2019.01.24
• [ x] At least skimmed through the [README](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-
• [x ] Searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones
• [ x] Checked that provided video/audio/playlist URLs (if any) are alive and playable in a browser

What is the purpose of your issue?

• [ x] Question

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c:\Temp>youtube-dl --verbose http://web.archive.org/web/20141226122405/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCLi6vSIuPE
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: ['--keep-video', '--buffer-size', '8192', '--hls-prefer-native', '--restrict-filenames']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', http://web.archive.org/web/20141226122405/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCLi6vSIuPE']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.01.24
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4.1, ffprobe 3.4.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] watch?v=JCLi6vSIuPE: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] watch?v=JCLi6vSIuPE: Downloading webpage
[generic] watch?v=JCLi6vSIuPE: Extracting information
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'http://web.archive.org/web/20141226122405/https://www.youtube.com/an
notations_invideo?cap_hist=1\\u0026cta=2\\u0026video_id=JCLi6vSIuPE'
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 404: NOT FOUND
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpa8aoq3sz\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1912, in process_info
 File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpa8aoq3sz\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1851, in dl
 File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpa8aoq3sz\build\youtube_dl\downloader\common.py", line 364, in download
 File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpa8aoq3sz\build\youtube_dl\downloader\http.py", line 341, in real_download
 File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpa8aoq3sz\build\youtube_dl\downloader\http.py", line 109, in establish_connection
 File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpa8aoq3sz\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2215, in urlopen
 File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 470, in open
 File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 580, in http_response
 File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 508, in error
 File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 442, in _call_chain
 File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 588, in http_error_default
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: NOT FOUND 

This should be related to issue #13655 On YouTube v=JCLi6vSIuPE is unavailable, presumably switched to "private" or even deleted. On WAYBACK I can still warch the video, but there's no "download" option for a backup. Using Chrome's inspect feature I'm not sure that WAYBACK actually archived the video, maybe they somehow bypass some broken "this is now hidden / private / deleted" feature on YouTube's side. Whatever is going on, with youtube-dl I get a 404 (see above) and --force-generic-extractor doesn't help.

(My 1st attempt with this issue somehow ended up as "closed"+"#incomplete" before I began to fill in the details, maybe this 2nd attempt works. I'm (almost) sure that is is no "bug" on the side of youtube-dl, but there is a very high astonishment factor in "can view on WAYBACK, but not download with youtube-dl" (cf. #13655)

[remitamine]

Duplicate of #13655.