youtube 503 service unavailable

[paulguy]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2019.05.20
• I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• I've searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

Verbose log

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YvMlIwSYWo']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.05.20
[debug] Python version 3.7.3 (CPython) - Linux-5.0.10-arch1-1-ARCH-x86_64-with-arch
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.1.3, ffprobe 4.1.3
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] 5YvMlIwSYWo: Downloading webpage
[youtube] 5YvMlIwSYWo: Downloading video info webpage
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://r4---sn-8xgp1vo-ab5s.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id=o-AOqqpMr4yiwPLvcvXXcQqoYmocWLobDmm95bC0cWUKJV&aitags=133%2C134%2C135%2C136%2C137%2C160%2C242%2C243%2C244%2C247%2C248%2C271%2C278%2C313&itag=313&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-8xgp1vo-ab5s%2Csn-ab5szn7k&ms=au%2Crdu&mv=u&pl=16&ei=XEHkXJLVMcfm8wSSk7K4Dg&mime=video%2Fwebm&gir=yes&clen=2134944465&dur=1405.537&lmt=1557989275914540&mt=1558462586&fvip=4&keepalive=yes&c=WEB&txp=3516222&ip=68.133.48.70&ipbits=0&expire=1558484413&sparams=ip%2Cipbits%2Cexpire%2Cid%2Caitags%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cpl%2Cei%2Cmime%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Clmt&signature=03F00791800798138307F400301C89CAD91A0268.22BDD8F1C229309B5F78356BE7FE4FAFCF9DCAAC&key=yt8&ratebypass=yes'
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable. Retrying (attempt 1 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable. Retrying (attempt 2 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable. Retrying (attempt 3 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable. Retrying (attempt 4 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable. Retrying (attempt 5 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable. Retrying (attempt 6 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable. Retrying (attempt 7 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable. Retrying (attempt 8 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable. Retrying (attempt 9 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable. Retrying (attempt 10 of 10)...
ERROR: giving up after 10 retries
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('youtube-dl==2019.5.20', 'console_scripts', 'youtube-dl')()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 474, in main
    _real_main(argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 464, in _real_main
    retcode = ydl.download(all_urls)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2008, in download
    url, force_generic_extractor=self.params.get('force_generic_extractor', False))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 807, in extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 861, in process_ie_result
    return self.process_video_result(ie_result, download=download)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1642, in process_video_result
    self.process_info(new_info)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1909, in process_info
    partial_success = dl(fname, new_info)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1854, in dl
    return fd.download(name, info)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 364, in download
    return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 353, in real_download
    self.report_error('giving up after %s retries' % retries)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 165, in report_error
    self.ydl.report_error(*args, **kargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 624, in report_error
    self.trouble(error_message, tb)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 586, in trouble
    tb_data = traceback.format_list(traceback.extract_stack())

Description

Video plays fine in the browser.

[dstftw]

PS > py -2.7 .\youtube_dl\__main__.py  5YvMlIwSYWo
[youtube] 5YvMlIwSYWo: Downloading webpage
[youtube] 5YvMlIwSYWo: Downloading video info webpage
[download] Destination: The 2020 Mercedes-Benz GLE is an Excellent Luxury SUV-5YvMlIwSYWo.f313.webm
[download]   0.4% of 2.57GiB at  2.93MiB/s ETA 14:57
ERROR: Interrupted by user

[paulguy]

Seems to be on and off for me for various videos. It generally works on the web page to watch them but youtube-dl seems to be randomly unreliable for me the past couple days.

[xperia64]

I'm also seeing this now.