Pokemon.com downloads have broke

[GldRush98]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2020.03.08
• 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://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-episodes/22_48-z-move-showdown/?play=true --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-episodes/22_48-z-move-showdown/?play=true', u'--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.03.08
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 (CPython) - Linux-3.10.105-x86_64-with-glibc2.2.5
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.7.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Pokemon] 22_48-z-move-showdown: Downloading webpage
[limelight] e252aad9992c420abf5093182fd16748: Downloading PlaylistService getPlaylistByMediaId JSON
[limelight] e252aad9992c420abf5093182fd16748: Downloading API properties JSON
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden (caused by HTTPError()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 627, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2238, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 435, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 548, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 473, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 407, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 556, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

Description

Downloads from pokemon.com are just returning a 403 error:

ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden (caused by HTTPError());

I updated youtube-dl with the same results. Last time I know it worked was around a month ago (I usually grab new episodes once a month or so).

[GldRush98]

Duplicate of? I searched open issues for pokemon and didn't see anything. Sorry if I missed it.

[remitamine]

it's a general problem related to Limelight and not specific to Pokemon.com.

[GldRush98]

Ah, ok! Thanks for the info.