Failed to download m3u8 information: HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable

[TapasKumarKundu]

Hi,

I am seeing "Failed to download m3u8 information: HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable" randomly while trying to download youtube live video .

I am using latest version of youtube-dl and here is the verbose log:

/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl --cookies /home/tkundu/cookies.txt --match-filter 'is_live' --flat-playlist -g -f "(bestvideo[width>=1920]/bestvideo)+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best" --verbose 'https://www.youtube.com/channel/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/live'
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--cookies', '/home/tkundu/cookies.txt', '--match-filter', 'is_live', '--flat-playlist', '-g', '-f', '(bestvideo[width>=1920]/bestvideo)+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best', '--verbose', 'https://www.youtube.com/channel/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/live']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
[debug] Python version 3.8.10 (CPython) - Linux-5.8.0-63-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.32
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.3.1, ffprobe 4.3.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
WARNING: Failed to download MPD manifest: HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable
https://manifest.googlevideo.com/api/manifest/hls_playlist/expire/1650575504/ei/MHRhYrWQC9SHkwbvwKDwCw/ip/2607:fb90:66bb:f976:268:b424:e604:390b/id/wyP4vpMC7ao.1/itag/96/source/yt_live_broadcast/requiressl/yes/ratebypass/yes/live/1/sgoap/gir%3Dyes%3Bitag%3D140/sgovp/gir%3Dyes%3Bitag%3D137/hls_chunk_host/rr4---sn-uhvcpax0n5-n5ol.googlevideo.com/playlist_duration/30/manifest_duration/30/spc/4ocVC9ae9jYtlW-6kMqnJ_iRMfnCzVVBMTHx0MUJWw/vprv/1/playlist_type/DVR/initcwndbps/4360/mh/wQ/mm/44/mn/sn-uhvcpax0n5-n5ol/ms/lva/mv/m/mvi/4/pl/48/dover/11/pacing/0/keepalive/yes/fexp/24001373,24007246/mt/1650553722/sparams/expire,ei,ip,id,itag,source,requiressl,ratebypass,live,sgoap,sgovp,playlist_duration,manifest_duration,spc,vprv,playlist_type/sig/AOq0QJ8wRQIgE-1FUO3ra2UG3gTaQEaA-eRZounX8ZOzfdUiIdnnlfACIQDzGM2LiscZ5HHQm9Qop_E0Da6vBm36iN-iN0j9h8N7IA%3D%3D/lsparams/hls_chunk_host,initcwndbps,mh,mm,mn,ms,mv,mvi,pl/lsig/AG3C_xAwRQIhANWOQ9RqQXNxUozz6qnnC0TZ_041WsIPxfxlrlDZKWC6AiB363rLCpBmiZaSPhM39yRG2BtZToiOi_Y5K3EokOsV2Q%3D%3D/playlist/index.m3u8

Could you please investigate on your end ?

Thank You

[dirkf]

Not currently reproducible for me. Transient issue at YT?