http_proxy with --get-url

[jeffcrouse]

This is more of a question than an issue, so sorry if this is in the wrong place...

I am using a proxy from http://hidemyass.com/proxy-list/search-226235 so my command looks like this:

http_proxy=http://208.64.176.157:80 youtube-dl --get-url http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRNtdqbbHTo

I get back a URL like:

http://o-o.preferred.lga15s20.v24.lscache7.c.youtube.com/videoplayback?sparams=id%2Cexpire%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Csource%2Cratebypass%2Ccp&fexp=907605%2C906424%2C916803&itag=22&ip=208.0.0.0&signature=1540E04C9CBE5729F3412EFCCE64DDC656DA5A09.2ADDDC7389B64EBCACF7DE4EF571E35E6C2C8F9D&sver=3&ratebypass=yes&source=youtube&expire=1326274839&key=yt1&ipbits=8&cp=U0hRS1JSUl9IU0NOMV9KTFZJOlJVcno5T0tyQkpi&id=55136d76a6db1d3a

But this URL gives me a 403 error when I try to load it on my local machine. Being a very observent kind of guy, I see that there is a var in the URL ip=208.0.0.0 that matches the proxy that I used. I tried changing the first part of the ip in the URL to the first part of my own, but it didn't work, so I imagine that it's hashed into the signature or something.

So my question is: is there any way to get a URL using a proxy (so as to avoid the dreaded 402 Payment Required), and then view it on another IP?

thanks!

[phihag]

Yes, you can't simply change the IP, as it is cryptographically signed with the signature field. The simplest solution would be to download the file via the proxy.

Alternatively, what you can do is download the actual file via IPv6. That works fine in my experience, as long as you still supply the same cookies (use youtube-dl's --cookies option to save them to disk).