[soundcloud] 401 Unauthorized

[ealgase]

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[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://soundcloud.com/kuzuryuu-fuyuhiko/kikuo-ft-shikabane-no-odori']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.01.30.1
[debug] Python version 3.6.7 (CPython) - Linux-3.14.0-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-18.04-bionic
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4.4, ffprobe 3.4.4, phantomjs 2.1.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[soundcloud] kuzuryuu-fuyuhiko/kikuo-ft-shikabane-no-odori: Resolving id
[soundcloud] kuzuryuu-fuyuhiko/kikuo-ft-shikabane-no-odori: Downloading info JSON
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized (caused by <HTTPError 401: 'Unauthorized'>); 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 "/home/ealgase/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 605, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/home/ealgase/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2215, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 532, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 642, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 570, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 504, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 650, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)

Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Soundcloud download fails with 401 error (link isn't dead).

[remitamine]

youtube-dl https://soundcloud.com/kuzuryuu-fuyuhiko/kikuo-ft-shikabane-no-odori
[soundcloud] kuzuryuu-fuyuhiko/kikuo-ft-shikabane-no-odori: Resolving id
[soundcloud] kuzuryuu-fuyuhiko/kikuo-ft-shikabane-no-odori: Downloading info JSON
[soundcloud] 114989672: Downloading track url
[soundcloud] 114989672: Downloading m3u8 information
[soundcloud] 114989672: Downloading m3u8 information
[soundcloud] 114989672: Checking http_mp3_128_url video format URL
[soundcloud] 114989672: Checking hls_mp3_128_url video format URL
[soundcloud] 114989672: Checking hls_opus_64_url video format URL
[download] Destination: Kikuo Ft. 初音ミク Shikabane No Odori-114989672.mp3
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 3468k  100 3468k    0     0   671k      0  0:00:05  0:00:05 --:--:--  815k
[curl] Downloaded 3552234 bytes
[download] 100% of 3.39MiB in 00:05

[ealgase]

Wow, sorry about that. youtube-dl, for some reason, didn't update properly, and I didn't check the version manually.