[nbc] ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

[Nii-90]

+ youtube-dl -w -v --no-mtime --write-info-json --all-subs http://www.nbc.com/undateable/video/daddy-issues/2792410
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-w', '-v', '--no-mtime', '--write-info-json', '--all-subs', 'http://www.nbc.com/undateable/video/daddy-issues/2792410']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.06.26
[debug] Python version 3.4.0 - Linux-3.13.0-30-generic-i686-with-Ubuntu-14.04-trusty
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[NBC] 2792410: Downloading webpage
[ThePlatform] NC_fFR7tkPam: Downloading config
[ThePlatform] NC_fFR7tkPam: Downloading XML
[ThePlatform] NC_fFR7tkPam: Downloading webpage
[info] Writing video description metadata as JSON to: Daddy Issues-NC_fFR7tkPam.info.json
[download] Downloading f4m manifest
[download] Destination: Daddy Issues-NC_fFR7tkPam.flv
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1020, in process_info
    success = dl(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 996, in dl
    return fd.download(name, info)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 291, in download
    return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/youtube_dl/downloader/f4m.py", line 287, in real_download
    success = http_dl.download(frag_filename, {'url': url})
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 291, in download
    return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 58, in real_download
    data = self.ydl.urlopen(request)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1225, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 461, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 571, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 499, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 433, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 579, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

It seems to have changed after May 30th.

[LouisKottmann]

+1

[LukeMauldin]

+1

[johnkernke]

+1 happening via SBS as well

[jaimeMF]

Thanks for the report, it will be fixed in the next version. Since the video you linked is not available from my country, I have only tested with http://www.nbc.com/chicago-fire/video/i-am-a-firefighter/2734188 and http://www.nbc.com/chicago-fire/video/chicago-fire-season-2-recap/2806944?onid=138861#vc138861=1, if it doesn't work, please comment here and I'll reopen the issue.

@johnkernke I think I've also fixed the issue with sbs, if it doesn't work, please open a new issue with the output of youtube-dl --verbose THE_URL.

[phihag]

Fixed in youtube-dl 2014.09.24. It looks like you used a package manager like pip or apt-get to install youtube-dl. Use that to update.