YouTube "Error 403: Forbidden"

[noembryo]

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

[debug] Encodings: locale cp1253, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref cp1253
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.03.24
[debug] Python version 3.7.2 (CPython) - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.0, ffprobe 3.0
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] KdSvdwjaQX0: Downloading webpage
[youtube] {18} signature length 104, html5 player vflset
[youtube] {135} signature length 104, html5 player vflset
[youtube] {244} signature length 108, html5 player vflset
[youtube] {134} signature length 108, html5 player vflset
[youtube] {243} signature length 108, html5 player vflset
[youtube] {133} signature length 108, html5 player vflset
[youtube] {242} signature length 108, html5 player vflset
[youtube] {160} signature length 108, html5 player vflset
[youtube] {278} signature length 108, html5 player vflset
[youtube] {140} signature length 108, html5 player vflset
[youtube] {249} signature length 104, html5 player vflset
[youtube] {250} signature length 108, html5 player vflset
[youtube] {251} signature length 108, html5 player vflset
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://r4---sn-4vguioxu-5ui6.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1587405588&ei=tI6dXtbwIIG8gQff0414&ip=130.43.78.26&id=o-AA6OvpT_B7dKDWIl3k0tJgGMuNRs8WdaX9dPJZRcM2eF&itag=18&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&mh=XT&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-4vguioxu-5ui6%2Csn-nv47lnly&ms=au%2Crdu&mv=m&mvi=3&pcm2cms=yes&pl=18&initcwndbps=535000&vprv=1&mime=video%2Fmp4&gir=yes&clen=8693239&ratebypass=yes&dur=194.652&lmt=1537257463210926&mt=1587383916&fvip=4&c=WEB&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cvprv%2Cmime%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cratebypass%2Cdur%2Clmt&lsparams=mh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpcm2cms%2Cpl%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=ALrAebAwRgIhAKxN8r2I3vVcJvCq_r0BWDLUkYeNN90nxn2-wu0R8CbWAiEA6-6h_SYdQw_GRJQbtxWz-nkjHnVJMJhOZRSwJJRUd60%3D&sig=lLswRAIYQyRQk_DYtDyUmAVUlzeQW5AHRyQW0vAoThoag4R4kg0wIGvPXaksJaLozjDvtP5W1MUOYbty5a4KMBySFvMAsCKwKzK7'
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\Apps\DEV\PYTHON\Python3\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1926, in process_info
    success = dl(filename, info_dict)
  File "D:\Apps\DEV\PYTHON\Python3\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1865, in dl
    return fd.download(name, info)
  File "D:\Apps\DEV\PYTHON\Python3\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\downloader\common.py", line 366, in download
    return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
  File "D:\Apps\DEV\PYTHON\Python3\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\downloader\http.py", line 341, in real_download
    establish_connection()
  File "D:\Apps\DEV\PYTHON\Python3\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\downloader\http.py", line 109, in establish_connection
    ctx.data = self.ydl.urlopen(request)
  File "D:\Apps\DEV\PYTHON\Python3\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2238, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "D:\Apps\DEV\PYTHON\Python3\lib\urllib\request.py", line 531, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "D:\Apps\DEV\PYTHON\Python3\lib\urllib\request.py", line 641, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "D:\Apps\DEV\PYTHON\Python3\lib\urllib\request.py", line 569, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "D:\Apps\DEV\PYTHON\Python3\lib\urllib\request.py", line 503, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "D:\Apps\DEV\PYTHON\Python3\lib\urllib\request.py", line 649, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

Description

This error started some 10-12 hours ago.
Checked it with other urls, and with Python 2.
Its not videos that need age authentication or something similar.

[noembryo]

Its duplicate with what?

[noembryo]

Can you please re-open this?
There is no other active issue like this.

[gregf]

I'm having the same issue right now, would like to know what it's a duplicate of as well.

[CptCaptain]

I had a similar issue, I'm guessing this is a duplicate of #23638.
Have you tried --rm-cache-dir?

[gregf]

@CptCaptain --rm-cache-dir solved it for me, thank you.

[noembryo]

I use youtube_dl as a library, so I added "rm_cachedir": True to the options but I get the same error.

EDIT: OK found it. I had to:

with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(opts) as ydl:
    try:
        ydl.cache.remove()
        ydl.download([url])
    except youtube_dl.utils.DownloadError as err:
        print(err)

Thank you guys!

[gaussey]

I use youtube_dl as a library, so I added "rm_cachedir": True to the options but I get the same error.

EDIT: OK found it. I had to:

with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(opts) as ydl:
    try:
        ydl.cache.remove()
        ydl.download([url])
    except youtube_dl.utils.DownloadError as err:
        print(err)

Thank you guys!

Using that amendment fixed it on YouTube iOS (Pythonista) also, so thank you for that.

with YoutubeDL(opts) as ydl:

   try:
       ydl.cache.remove()
       ydl.download([url])
   except youtube_dl.utils.DownloadError as err:
       print(err)
ydl.download([url])