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Fox.com HTTP Error 403: Forbidden #20208
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most likely an invalid cookies file, a valid |
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first check that the cookie line for |
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The cookie has the following I don't see and HTTPOnly anywhere in the file. The thing I don't get is out of 10 different videos some work and other don't. Here is the list I'm trying: Failed youtube-dl --cookies ms.txt https://www.fox.com/watch/54074345bfce9b3069c4523fb673a41a/ |
the working videos are free don't require an account. |
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i have pushed some code to detect some of the errors, you can report back when you test the new version. |
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Can you walk me through testing this new code? Do i have do a git pull or should i just back up a file and do a copy and paste of the new code you added. (sorry I'm new to github) |
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you can check again with the latest version and post the error you're getting. |
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youtube-dl --cookies ms.txt https://www.fox.com/watch/54074345bfce9b3069c4523fb673a41a/ -v During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): |
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invalid cookie file, the |
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hmm i've tried clearing my cache multiple times... i've logged in to my provider several times. Only other thing is I'll have to find out where the cookies are stored and delete them manually. |
Ok I found where google chrome is storing cookies... made sure to remove all cookies manually. Restarted browser and then logged in again. Same cookie message. See this is the issue. Tried this video with the same cookie file: https://www.fox.com/watch/cff4661b61fbe9c225e71373d58a6f8c/ Works fine. Any idea why one video works with a cookie but the other doesn't? Both videos in question work fine in the browser. |
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as I said before #20208 (comment), free videos do not require using a cookie file at all. something wrong with the cookies that you're exporting, the way I export the cookies is using |
I just tried it with out cookies and it seems to be working. I guess I assumed they all required cookies to watch. Thanks for the help. |
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Trying to download The Masked Singer. I tried with cookies and it still fails.
youtube-dl --cookies=ms.txt https://www.fox.com/watch/54074345bfce9b3069c4523fb673a41a/ --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--cookies=ms.txt', 'https://www.fox.com/watch/54074345bfce9b3069c4523fb673a41a/', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.03.01
[debug] Python version 3.6.1 (CPython) - Linux-3.10.0-862.3.2.el7.x86_64-x86_64-with-centos-7.5.1804-Core
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4.5, ffprobe 3.4.5
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[FOX] Downloading JSON metadata
[FOX] 54074345bfce9b3069c4523fb673a41a: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden (caused by <HTTPError 403: 'Forbidden'>); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 605, in _request_webpage
return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2225, in urlopen
return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 532, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 642, in http_response
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 570, in error
return self._call_chain(*args)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 504, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 650, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
youtube-dl --version
2019.03.01