Unable to access, getting HTTPError 503

[Arpitj95]

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!youtube-dl --verbose --write-auto-sub --skip-download https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx62VjBCtj0
[youtube] Gx62VjBCtj0: Downloading webpage
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', '--write-auto-sub', '--skip-download', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx62VjBCtj0']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, out cp1252, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.04.24
[debug] Python version 3.7.3 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.15063-SP0
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable (caused by <HTTPError 503: 'Service Unavailable'>); 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 "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 626, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2227, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\urllib\request.py", line 531, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\urllib\request.py", line 641, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\urllib\request.py", line 569, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\urllib\request.py", line 503, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\urllib\request.py", line 649, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)

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### Description of your *issue*, suggested solution and other information

I want to extract auto-generated captions of a few videos but was unable to do it for more than 2 videos as HTTPError 503 keeps coming up

[dstftw]

Most likely temporary youtube side issue.

[Arpitj95]

I tried it a day later as well, the same issue seems to prevail.