[Soundcloud] HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized

[T0MuX]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2019.11.22
• 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

$ youtube-dl https://soundcloud.com/officialkrimer/facebreaker --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['https://soundcloud.com/officialkrimer/facebreaker', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.11.22
[debug] Python version 3.8.0 (CPython) - Linux-5.3.11-arch1-1-x86_64-with-glibc2.2.5
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.1, ffprobe 4.2.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[soundcloud] officialkrimer/facebreaker: Downloading info JSON
WARNING: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized
[soundcloud] officialkrimer/facebreaker: 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/t0mux/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 627, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/home/t0mux/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2237, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 531, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 640, in http_response
    response = self.parent.error(
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 569, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 502, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 649, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)

Description

Hi, I was trying to download a soundcloud song, but it seems to doesn't work anymore. I also tried with online services using youtube-dl, it seems to be the same for everybody

[T0MuX]

@dstftw Hi, you closed and tagged "duplicate" but I can't find the other one, can you give me the link please ? I searched "401" in opened issue, didnt found.