Hotstar HTTP Error 403

[Coolguy249]

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C:\youtube-dl>youtube-dl -v https://www.hotstar.com/tv/divyadrishti/s-2015/shekhar-to-kill-divya/1000232327
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.hotstar.com/tv/divyadrishti/s-2015/shekhar-to-kill-divya/1000232327']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.03.18
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.17763
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.1.1, ffprobe 4.1.1, phantomjs 2.1.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[hotstar] 1000232327: Downloading webpage
[hotstar] 1000232327: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden (caused by HTTPError()); 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 "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpcs52imf5\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 626, in _request_webpage
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpcs52imf5\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2225, 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



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### Description of your *issue*, suggested solution and other information
this site not Geo restricted for me because i lived in India.
Hotstar  available in India, the US, and Canada.
this error is occurred from past 2-3 days but this link is working fine on this following  website 

https://9xbuddy.org/process?url=https://www.hotstar.com/tv/divyadrishti/s-2015/shekhar-to-kill-divya/1000232327

please Fix this issue.
Thank u

[dstftw]

PS C:\Dev\youtube-dl\master> py -3.7 .\youtube_dl\__main__.py https://www.hotstar.com/tv/divyadrishti/s-2015/shekhar-to-kill-divya/1000232327 --proxy 103.116.36.241:44760
[hotstar] 1000232327: Downloading webpage
[hotstar] 1000232327: Downloading JSON metadata
[hotstar] 1000232327: Downloading m3u8 information
[download] Destination: Shekhar to Kill Divya-1000232327.mp4
ffmpeg version N-85653-gb4330a0 Copyright (c) 2000-2017 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 6.3.0 (GCC)
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-cuda --enable-cuvid --enable-d3d11va --enable-dxva2 --enable-libmfx --enable-nvenc --enable-avisynth --enable-bzlib --enable-fontconfig --enable-frei0r --enable-gnutls --enable-iconv --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libbs2b --enable-libcaca --enable-libfreetype --enable-libgme --enable-libgsm --enable-libilbc --enable-libmodplug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenh264 --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-librtmp --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxavs --enable-libxvid --enable-libzimg --enable-lzma --enable-zlib
  libavutil      55. 61.100 / 55. 61.100
  libavcodec     57. 93.100 / 57. 93.100
  libavformat    57. 72.101 / 57. 72.101
  libavdevice    57.  7.100 / 57.  7.100
  libavfilter     6. 87.100 /  6. 87.100
  libswscale      4.  7.101 /  4.  7.101
  libswresample   2.  8.100 /  2.  8.100
  libpostproc    54.  6.100 / 54.  6.100
Input #0, hls,applehttp, from 'https://hses.akamaized.net/videos/plus/dvdrsp/10_9db40cc55b/1000232327/1553357652131/5d0f83c3ccbf4501cf952bdfc8c0d785/media-6/index.m3u8':
  Duration: 00:42:48.04, start: 0.111111, bitrate: 0 kb/s
  Program 0
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 0
    Stream #0:0: Audio: aac (LC) ([15][0][0][0] / 0x000F), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 0
    Stream #0:1: Video: h264 (High) ([27][0][0][0] / 0x001B), yuv420p(tv, bt709), 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 25 fps, 25 tbr, 90k tbn, 50 tbc
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 0
Output #0, mp4, to 'file:Shekhar to Kill Divya-1000232327.mp4.part':
  Metadata:
    encoder         : Lavf57.72.101
    Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (High) ([33][0][0][0] / 0x0021), yuv420p(tv, bt709), 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], q=2-31, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 90k tbn, 90k tbc
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 0
    Stream #0:1: Audio: aac (LC) ([64][0][0][0] / 0x0040), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 0
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:1 -> #0:0 (copy)
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:1 (copy)
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
[hls,applehttp @ 00000000023724a0] Failed to open segment of playlist 0
    Last message repeated 1 times
frame=   99 fps=7.2 q=-1.0 Lsize=     254kB time=00:00:03.98 bitrate= 522.5kbits/s speed=0.292x
video:249kB audio:1kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead: 1.695636%
Exiting normally, received signal 2.

ERROR: Interrupted by user