[BBC.co.uk] Recent Site Update Produces New SSL Errors

[darthhaggis]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2019.08.13
• 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

D:\Video\Downloads>youtube-dl.exe "https://www.bbc.co.uk/ipla
yer/episode/m0007smd/the-day-mountbatten-died" -i -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: ['--all-subs', '--sub-format', 'srt', '--convert-subs', 'sr
t', '--embed-subs', '--merge-output-format', 'mkv', '--recode-video', 'mkv', '--
format', 'bestvideo[width=1280]+bestaudio/best', '-o', 'D:/Video/Downloads/%(ser
ies)s/%(series)s - %(season_number)sx%(episode_number)02d - %(title)s [%(height)
s] [%(id)s].%(ext)s', '--prefer-ffmpeg', '--ffmpeg-location', 'D:\\Video\\FFMPEG
\\bin', '--download-archive', 'D:/Video/Downloads/Archive.txt', '--exec', 'D:\\V
ideo\\FFMPEG\\bin\\ffmpeg.exe -i {} -map 0 {}_+.mkv']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0007smd/the-
day-mountbatten-died', '-i', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.08.13
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-8.1-6.3.9600
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-90771-g5079e96bcc, ffprobe N-90771-g5079e96bcc
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[bbc.co.uk] m0007smd: Downloading video page
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILE
D] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:600)> (caused by URLError(SSLError(1, '[SSL
: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:600)'),))
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmp5b8vs7
2_\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 627, in _request_webpage
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmp5b8vs7
2_\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2229, in urlopen
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 464, in open
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 482, in _open
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 442, in _call_chain
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmp5b8vs7
2_\build\youtube_dl\utils.py", line 2724, in https_open
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 1185, in do_open

Description

Due to a recent update on the BBC iPlayer site, it appears that the site is trying to crack down on VPNs, Proxies and other ways of circumventing geo-locking. As a result, it appears that YT-DL is also a victim of this change to the site and is now producing Certificate Verification Failure errors for normally working URLs.

[dstftw]

Nothing to do with anything you mentioned. Most likely you have expired certificates.

> py -2.7 .\youtube_dl\__main__.py https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0007smd/the-day-mountbatten-died
[bbc.co.uk] m0007smd: Downloading video page
[bbc.co.uk] m0007smd: Downloading playlist JSON
[bbc.co.uk] m0007smc: Downloading media selection XML
[bbc.co.uk] m0007smc: Downloading m3u8 information
WARNING: Failed to download m3u8 information: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
[bbc.co.uk] m0007smc: Downloading m3u8 information
WARNING: Failed to download m3u8 information: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
[bbc.co.uk] m0007smc: Downloading MPD manifest
WARNING: Failed to download MPD manifest: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
[bbc.co.uk] m0007smc: Downloading MPD manifest
[bbc.co.uk] m0007smc: Downloading m3u8 information
[bbc.co.uk] m0007smc: Downloading m3u8 information
WARNING: Failed to download m3u8 information: HTTP Error 502: Bad Gateway
[bbc.co.uk] m0007smc: Downloading m3u8 information
WARNING: Failed to download m3u8 information: HTTP Error 502: Bad Gateway
[bbc.co.uk] m0007smc: Downloading m3u8 information
WARNING: Failed to download m3u8 information: HTTP Error 502: Bad Gateway
[bbc.co.uk] m0007smc: Downloading m3u8 information
WARNING: Failed to download m3u8 information: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
[bbc.co.uk] m0007smc: Downloading m3u8 information
WARNING: Failed to download m3u8 information: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
[bbc.co.uk] m0007smc: Downloading MPD manifest
WARNING: Failed to download MPD manifest: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
[bbc.co.uk] m0007smc: Downloading MPD manifest
[bbc.co.uk] m0007smc: Downloading m3u8 information
[bbc.co.uk] m0007smc: Downloading m3u8 information
[bbc.co.uk] m0007smc: Downloading m3u8 information
[bbc.co.uk] m0007smc: Downloading m3u8 information
[dashsegments] Total fragments: 924
[download] Destination: The Day Mountbatten Died-m0007smc.fstream-uk-iptv_streaming_concrete_combined_hd_mf_limelight_uk_dash_https-video=5070000.mp4
[download]   0.0% of ~806.55MiB at 326.09KiB/s ETA 04:51:10
ERROR: Interrupted by user