youtube-dl https://www.itv.com/hub/professor-t/7a0171a0001 fails with 404 error

[dwlegg]

This is the --verbose output:

$ youtube-dl https://www.itv.com/hub/professor-t/7a0171a0001 --verbose
[debug] System config: ['--prefer-free-formats']
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['https://www.itv.com/hub/professor-t/7a0171a0001', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.06.06
[debug] Python version 3.9.6 (CPython) - Linux-5.12.15-300.fc34.x86_64-x86_64-with-glibc2.33
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.4, ffprobe 4.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Using fake IP 25.62.138.61 (GB) as X-Forwarded-For.
[ITV] 7a0171a0001: Downloading webpage
[ITV] 7a0171a0001: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 404: Not Found (caused by <HTTPError 404: 'Not Found'>); 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 "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 634, in _request_webpage
return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2287, in urlopen
return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/urllib/request.py", line 523, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/urllib/request.py", line 632, in http_response
response = self.parent.error(
File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/urllib/request.py", line 561, in error
return self._call_chain(*args)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/urllib/request.py", line 494, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/urllib/request.py", line 641, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)

Version in use is:
youtube-dl-2021.06.06-1.fc34.noarch

Thanks.

[october262]

did you try using the user name & password option
or the authenticated cookies option ??

[dwlegg]

I tried the -u and -p options and got the same result.
I don't know how to do the authenticated cookies thing.

[ajt-en-france]

Been seeing the same thing for a while, I think it's possibly DRM. Even my Samsung TV wont do catch-up anymore, only live ITV. I gather people have been complaining of similar things this summer:

#28906

[dirkf]

https://www.itv.com/hub/professor-t/7a0171a0001: working in #30266.