Banned.video Causing 403 Forbidden on HEAD Request

[eeik]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2020.09.20
• 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

(base) X:\World Events\2020 Civil War>youtube-dl --verbose https://banned.video/watch?id=5f6e6aecd1e7550a1c00b9ed
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'https://banned.video/watch?id=5f6e6aecd1e7550a1c00b9ed']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.09.20
[debug] Python version 3.6.8 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.18362-SP0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg git-2020-07-13-7772666, ffprobe git-2020-07-13-7772666, phantomjs 2.1.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] watch?id=5f6e6aecd1e7550a1c00b9ed: Requesting header
WARNING: Could not send HEAD request to https://banned.video/watch?id=5f6e6aecd1e7550a1c00b9ed: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
[generic] watch?id=5f6e6aecd1e7550a1c00b9ed: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden (caused by <HTTPError 403: 'Forbidden'>); 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 "c:\programdata\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 632, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "c:\programdata\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2238, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "c:\programdata\anaconda3\lib\urllib\request.py", line 532, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "c:\programdata\anaconda3\lib\urllib\request.py", line 642, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "c:\programdata\anaconda3\lib\urllib\request.py", line 570, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "c:\programdata\anaconda3\lib\urllib\request.py", line 504, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "c:\programdata\anaconda3\lib\urllib\request.py", line 650, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)```


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I seem to recall Banned.video working flawlessly before, but maybe a change on their service side is now blocking HEAD requests for some reason due to increased IT security attacks being received given 2020.

Their website DOES have a download button, so perhaps this isn't strictly urgent, but in an automated download pipeline scenario, programatically ingesting a URL and outputting an MP4 is ideal.

[Beorn-hayek]

@eeik I can reproduce. It works if I use http instead of https though.

[eeik]

Is this the command you're thinking? If so, it's not working for me. Is there an alt parameter I should be using?

youtube-dl -f '[protocol=http]' --verbose https://banned.video/watch?id=5f6e6aecd1e7550a1c00b9ed

[Beorn-hayek]

No, I mean changing https://banned.video/watch?id=5f6e6aecd1e7550a1c00b9ed to http://banned.video/watch?id=5f6e6aecd1e7550a1c00b9ed.

[eeik]

🤦‍♂️ ... skipped right over the easy solution! Thanks @Beorn-hayek 👍

[eeik]

Hmm, it now seems neither http nor https work properly. Perhaps they've made a server side change that didn't initially propagate on both protocols?

[dirkf]

See #26805