How do I know where I am for "ERROR: The uploader has not made this video available in your country."

[Reapor-Yurnero]

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I have a VPS in US and another one in singapore, trying to download some specific music, like "darkness" from eminem and "bad guy" but it shows ERROR: The uploader has not made this video available in your country or this video is not available. I tried to do exactly the same thing on the local machine. But I found it works perfect no matter in singapore or us. I feel very confused and I check the ip address of my vps and confirmed that they are really located in us and singapore. But in this case how could youtube block this? Is there any possible way to show where youtube think I'm located for each request? (Use --geo-bypass does not help)

[dstftw]

Youtube does not report its guessed location.

[Reapor-Yurnero]

Youtube does not report its guessed location.

Do you have any idea on how to solve this in that case? What might cause a server in us not be able to access a video open in us?

[dstftw]

Solve what? You don't even bother to provide any context.

[Reapor-Yurnero]

Cuz I don't want to bother readers with more than enough info.

$ youtube-dl -v hHUbLv4ThOo
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'hHUbLv4ThOo']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.01.24
[debug] Python version 2.7.17 (CPython) - Linux-4.15.0-52-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-18.04-bionic
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] hHUbLv4ThOo: Downloading webpage
[youtube] hHUbLv4ThOo: Downloading video info webpage
ERROR: The uploader has not made this video available in your country.
Sorry about that.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 796, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 530, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 2153, in _real_extract
raise ExtractorError(error_message, expected=True)
ExtractorError: The uploader has not made this video available in your country.
Sorry about that.

As I have said, I do exactly the same thing on my own computer in the same country, and it works.

[dstftw]

Working on your own computer via your own outgoing IP means effectively nothing. What you must check is whether it does work from browser via VPS with clean session, if not then you can't make youtube-dl work either.