ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

[dcgc]

Can't download a video rom Youtube:

$ python youtube-dl.py http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrjZgKXrLF8 --no-warnings
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] DrjZgKXrLF8: Downloading webpage
[youtube] DrjZgKXrLF8: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] DrjZgKXrLF8: Extracting video information
[youtube] DrjZgKXrLF8: Encrypted signatures detected.
[youtube] DrjZgKXrLF8: Downloading js player vflazPBMd
[youtube] DrjZgKXrLF8: Downloading js player vflazPBMd
[youtube] DrjZgKXrLF8: Downloading js player vflazPBMd
[youtube] DrjZgKXrLF8: Downloading js player vflazPBMd
[youtube] DrjZgKXrLF8: Downloading js player vflazPBMd
[youtube] DrjZgKXrLF8: Downloading js player vflazPBMd
[youtube] DrjZgKXrLF8: Downloading js player vflazPBMd
[youtube] DrjZgKXrLF8: Downloading js player vflazPBMd
[youtube] DrjZgKXrLF8: Downloading js player vflazPBMd
[youtube] DrjZgKXrLF8: Downloading js player vflazPBMd
[youtube] DrjZgKXrLF8: Downloading js player vflazPBMd
[youtube] DrjZgKXrLF8: Downloading js player vflazPBMd
[youtube] DrjZgKXrLF8: Downloading js player vflazPBMd
[youtube] DrjZgKXrLF8: Downloading js player vflazPBMd
[youtube] DrjZgKXrLF8: Downloading js player vflazPBMd
[youtube] DrjZgKXrLF8: Downloading js player vflazPBMd
[youtube] DrjZgKXrLF8: Downloading js player vflazPBMd
[youtube] DrjZgKXrLF8: Downloading js player vflazPBMd
[youtube] DrjZgKXrLF8: Downloading js player vflazPBMd
[youtube] DrjZgKXrLF8: Downloading js player vflazPBMd
[youtube] DrjZgKXrLF8: Downloading js player vflazPBMd
[youtube] DrjZgKXrLF8: Downloading js player vflazPBMd
[youtube] DrjZgKXrLF8: Downloading js player vflazPBMd
[youtube] DrjZgKXrLF8: Downloading js player vflazPBMd
[youtube] DrjZgKXrLF8: Downloading js player vflazPBMd
[youtube] DrjZgKXrLF8: Downloading js player vflazPBMd
[youtube] DrjZgKXrLF8: Downloading js player vflazPBMd
[youtube] DrjZgKXrLF8: Downloading js player vflazPBMd
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

[jaimeMF]

This is the same problem as #3107. When reporting errors, it's better to remove the --no-warnings and add --verbose option, it provides us important information.

[msliczniak]

I get it too for this one:

$ youtube-dl -v http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eHue2jSw3s
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eHue2jSw3s']
[debug] Encodings: locale US-ASCII, fs US-ASCII, out US-ASCII, pref US-ASCII
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.06.16
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - FreeBSD-8.4-RELEASE-p9-i386-32bit-ELF
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] 3eHue2jSw3s: Downloading webpage
[youtube] 3eHue2jSw3s: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 3eHue2jSw3s: Extracting video information
[youtube] 3eHue2jSw3s: Encrypted signatures detected.
[youtube] encrypted signature length 82 (41.40), itag 43, html5 player en_US-vflazPBMd
[youtube] 3eHue2jSw3s: Downloading js player vflazPBMd
WARNING: Automatic signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last):
.../youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 383, in _search_regex
raise RegexNotFoundError(u'Unable to extract %s' % _name)
RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract Initial JS player signature function name; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update.

WARNING: Warning: Falling back to static signature algorithm
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
Traceback (most recent call last):
.../youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1225, in urlopen
return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 410, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 523, in http_response
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 448, in error
return self._call_chain(_args)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
result = func(_args)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 531, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

[jaimeMF]

@msliczniak and @dcgc it's fixed in the repo and it will be working in the next release (see #3104 for reference).

[msliczniak]

Ha sorry Jaimie, we comment just seconds apart! Thanks for fixing.

[msliczniak]

version 2014.06.19 works fine for my example, thanks again