Patreon Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 403

[okand]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2020.03.24
• 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

nuc :: ~ % youtube-dl https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-150-eric-35033817 --verbose                                                                     1 ↵
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-150-eric-35033817', u'--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.03.24
[debug] Python version 2.7.17 (CPython) - Linux-4.15.0-91-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-18.04-bionic
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.0.2-static, ffprobe 4.0.2-static, phantomjs 2.1.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Patreon] 35033817: Downloading JSON metadata
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 "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 627, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/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

This podcast episode is fully playable directly in the browser without even logging in but youtube-dl is unable to fetch the file. https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-150-eric-35033817

[raphtlw]

I'm getting the same issue too

[betatan]

Same issue in a walled account, Im a paying supporter.

[unitof]

Also getting this on a publicly available (login not required) Patreon audio post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-4-trecel-37172209.

Just with a slightly different HTTPError; Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden (caused by <HTTPError 403: 'Forbidden'>);

Changing the --user-agent flag to match my browser's still leads to 403, so I don't think this is simple useragent blocking on Patreon's part.